Apple Inc (AAPL)

[KVW]

I was in the Apple Store in Northern Virginia (Tysons Corner) today to pick up a copy of iLife.

The joint was jumping. People everywhere. 6 checkout stations all busy all the time. Laptops and iPods flying out the door (even saw one 15" iMac sold, no G5s). It was amazing how many people were buying accessories for iPod.

In fact, the store's emphasis is at least 50% on iPod now. iPods are on display everywhere (maybe 20 or so out on display hooked up to everything).

Lots of people walking out with iLife. I was there for about 15 minutes and saw maybe 40 copies sold. I expect they will be out of stock shortly.

No 40GB iPods sold though. Sales of iPod seemed split between the 15GB model and the 20GB model.

I guess this isn't surprising since the Apple Retail stores turned a $9M profit last quarter with another $52M in profit to Apple from the items they sold (this is almost all the profit Apple made).

Kevin