Am 13.12.2006 um 05:44 schrieb Charles Plessy:
Definitely, the OEM market for desktop ppc is dead. But the second hand market is much greater than the OEM one anyway. Does anybody has an ideaon the number of ppc macintoshes Apple sold?
Let's make a guess. Nothing more. Apple sold roughly about 1.000.000 Macs a quarter, that's up to 4.000.000 Macs a year. Some times a little less, sometimes a little more. Let's say PowerPCs started with the PMac 7/8/9500 that was 1995 and ended 2005. That is simple math, 10 years with 4 million units:
Let's say that Apple produced round about 40 million PowerPC computers? Now 40 million as a fix number will be wrong, most likely. If you feel better, let's say that about 30 to 50 million PowerPC based computer were sold.