Apple’s selling around 23 MacBooks each minute worldwide, fresh data from its Taiwan-based supply chain suggests.
Citing industry sources, Digitimes explains: “Quanta Computer is expected to ship 3.5-3.7 million notebooks in January 2009 mainly benefiting from shipments of one million MacBooks to Apple.”
That’s colossal growth. The report tells us Apple shipped “about seven million” notebooks in 2009, a sale rate in the region of 13 Mac portables each and every minute of last year.
The lion’s share of these laptops are manufactured by Quanta, though some are built by Foxconn (aka, Hon Hai Precision Industry).
Seems Apple’s laptop sales are exploding. Digitimes informs, “Apple's monthly