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To: dmf who wrote (70751)	1/9/1999 12:14:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Every month someone (might be dataquest or CRnews) publishes a list of the top ten best selling computers. These are specific computers. For instance, model number xyz from Hewlett Packard which would be a be a Pentium II 350 w/4gig HD etc might be no. 5. A Compaq 2256 with a Cyrix 300 might be no.4...etc. So based on this, the iMAC, of which there is only one model, was no.1 last month. This is one Mac vs a zillion different models of x86 boxes. So don't worry, Macs aren't about to eclipse Intel or the x86 world anytime soon. The major result of this is that I see a whole bunch of computers in various flourescent colors being offers from major vendors. <G> Jim

To: dmf who wrote (70751)	1/9/1999 4:20:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<Just what does Jobs mean when he says the Imac is the best-selling computer?> The same thing when he says that the iMac with the 233 MHz PowerPC processor outperforms a Pentium II 400 MHz system. He means that Apple is in desperate need of recognition, which is why he puts out such BS statements. Technically, the iMac is the best selling retail computer out there, this is true. But that's only because the PC market is split among literally hundreds of models, while there's only one iMac out there. Tenchusatsu

To: dmf who wrote (70751)	1/9/1999 9:57:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

dmf - re: "Just what does Jobs mean when he says the Imac is the best-selling computer?" First of all, Steve Jobs is the inventor and Grand Master of Computer Publicity Hype. My guess is that he is speaking of the sales volume of ONE SPECIFIC COMPUTER MODEL - which the iMAC is, as compared to the sales volume of competing SPECIFIC COMPUTER models, such as a Compaq Prosignia 5500. For some competing numbers, I think he mentioned 800,000 + iMacs were shipped since the launch in mid August. Since that time, one quarter plus a few weeks, Intel probably shipped 30 million CPUs which went into 25 million PCs and/or servers. Keep these numbers in mind when comparing Apple Hype to reality. Paul