Replies to post #112 on Apple Inc (AAPL)

[roni]

Back then, the company went from $5.9 Billion in revenues to $8.0. With the revenue line back down in the $6 Billion area, you would need to see some fairly staggering growth in unit sales to create that kind of revenue growth.

What kind of growth in Pro Macs will we see from the combination of Quark for X, new Pro models that should scream past what is not available in terms of speed and the fact that many Pro print customers will have reasons to upgrade their Mac systems now?

Here are the unit sales numbers from (in thousands): they are from

December 19, 2002

APPLE COMPUTER INC (AAPL)

Annual Report (SEC form 10-K)

Power Macintosh unit sales

2002--> 766
2001--> 937
2000--> 1,436

And the dollars associated with those numbers (in millions

2002--> $ 1,380
2001 --> $ 1,664
2000 --> $ 2,747

I'd be interested in hearing th thoughts of those assembled here. I think there is going to be a movement back toward the numbers we saw in 2000. I am not sure how close Apple will get, but I think a 20-40% increase in Power Mac unit sale is not an off the wall estimate. Add the iPod numbers, the music store revenue, software sales (Panther won't be a free upgrade, darn it all), and I can see 8 billion in revenues in 2005.