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Lango

I am not the person who said:

From my observations, the market for McBooks is identical to the market for iBooks - existing Apple users ready for a hardware upgrade. The rest of the computing world doesn't give a flying f'k.

I am the guy who disagreed with that statement.

I'll move back to the level of those statements, without using any numbers.

I think a lot of new to Mac buyers will be buying MacBooks. I think the rest of the computing world gives a flying f'k - but, as usual with the real world, it cannot be explained by a single factor - such as the introduction on one new computer. Other factors that may enter in the equation could be the halo effect, the ability to boot into Windows, the upcoming ability to run Windows and OS X at the same time, the malware issue coming to the forefront via advertising, the increasing value to be found in .Mac and iLife, and other factors that you or someone else may want to identify are all in play.