Apple’s MacBook leads other Personal in Amazon’s Christmas Eve sales
Posted by: in Products and ServicesFiled under: Products and services, Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN)
This past Monday, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) was still open for business care about it always is. There’s no “shutting down” on the web like there is in the real, brick-and-mortar shopping world. What on earth was being purchased on Christmas Eve? Not Christmas presents — those are already under the tree. Gifts for other holidays? Possibly — but you better choose “expedited shipping” when checking out.
When it came to PCs being sold at Amazon’s website a few days ago, the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) MacBook made its mark as the #1 PC seller at the world’s largest on the internet retailer. Not Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) — which held the 2nd and 3rd spots — not Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) (which isn’t sold at Amazon), and not Gateway (now part of Acer). That design iconoclast and superbly-marketed Apple machine was perched at the top. Not the iPod or the iPhone, but the fully-fledged MacBook laptop Computer.
In what could be seen as the real “breakout” year for Apple laptop personal in 2008, Apple’s entry-level MacBook laptop was even priced at $300 and $500 more than the HP systems which were below it in sales. Right now, HP is the world’s largest laptop Computer seller, as it’s in most retailer outlets, has a strong web sales presence and has aggressive pricing to boot. Apple’s systems, though, continue to set the standard in cool design and “wow” factor, similar to the iPod and iPhone products that were hot sellers this holiday season. Will the MacBooks stay at the top of Amazon’s Computer sales chart in 2008? Steve Jobs sure hopes so.
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