NPD shows sales slowdown in February before the Apple Mac MacBook Pro restore-Apple Insider

NPD shows sales slowdown in February before the Apple Mac MacBook Pro AppleInsider refreshBy StaffPublished: 03: 49 PM EST

US sales were at the low end Mac expectations – but still with 16 percent of the year – in the first two months of the March quarter, before Apple releases new MacBook for the report.

The latest home sales tracking data from the NPD Group shows that US Mac sales for the year in January and February 2011, the year was 16 percent. As noted by Gene Munster with Piper Jaffray, the consensus view on Wall Street is that Apple will release Mac sales 22 percent for the fiscal year March quarter.

The number is low, but is also two months before Apple released their new line of MacBook pro, which arrived at the end of February. This suggests that the sale may mácena before the expected update. To support this theory, the American Mac sales were somewhat more--20 percent--in January.

In addition, international sale Mac tend to have stronger year after year growth than sales in the US, Apple. For this reason, Munster expects Mac between 20% and 25% for the quarter, a number that would be in line with the expectations of Wall Street's 22 percent.

And devices such as iPhone and iPad continue to grow in popularity, the Mac also becomes less important part of Apple's business. Munster said that the estimated revenue will represent only the Mac 21 percent of the total revenue of Apple in the calendar year 2011.

If the Mac sales grow between 20 percent and 25 percent for the year, Apple would sell an estimated 3.5 to 3.7 million units in the frame of three months. Wall Street generally Apple expects sales for 3,6 million Macs in the quarter, which ends in March.

Munster also notes that the NPD data indicate sales of between 9.8 million and 10.3 million iPod March quarter, which would be a reduction of between 5% and 10 percent from a year ago. Wall Street generally expected iPod down about 6 percent a year for the year.

International iPod sales are greater than the international Mac sales mix. In consequence, the NPD in home monitoring data shall be borne by a greater margin of error in the projecting iPod sales.

In the previous quarter, Apple sold a record feast of 4,1 million Macs, helps the company to earn their best ever revenues of 26.74 billion dollars. Mac sales were significantly assists the popular MacBook Air, which was delivered to more than 1 million.

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