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Slice Intelligence says the new MacBook Pro accumulated more revenue SO FAR, from online orders during its first five days of availability than the Microsoft Surface Book, ASUS Chromebook Flip, Dell Inspiron 2-in-1, and Lenovo Yoga 900, based on e-receipt data from 12,979 online shoppers in the United States.

If I sell apples and oranges by the street for 8 hours, and I sell 10 apples and 8 oranges in the first 5 minutes, it does not indicate that apples are the winner.

I'm SURE they don't have any relationship whatsoever.

I'm gonna look up "Slice Intelligence" and see where they're headquartered and if they have any satellite locations. Ah. Here ya go, and BTW, San Mateo, CA and Cupertino, CA are about 50 miles apart:

PALO ALTO OFFICE
Slice
800 Concar Drive, Floor 5
San Mateo, CA 94402

MEDIA
jaimee@slice.com
+1 206-390-6637

Slice Intelligence says the new MacBook Pro accumulated more revenue SO FAR, from online orders during its first five days of availability than the Microsoft Surface Book, ASUS Chromebook Flip, Dell Inspiron 2-in-1, and Lenovo Yoga 900, based on e-receipt data from 12,979 online shoppers in the United States.

If I sell apples and oranges by the street for 8 hours, and I sell 10 apples and 8 oranges in the first 5 minutes, it does not indicate that apples are the winner.

I'm SURE they don't have any relationship whatsoever.

I'm gonna look up "Slice Intelligence" and see where they're headquartered and if they have any satellite locations. Ah. Here ya go, and BTW, San Mateo, CA and Cupertino, CA are about 50 miles apart:

PALO ALTO OFFICE
Slice
800 Concar Drive, Floor 5
San Mateo, CA 94402

MEDIA
jaimee@slice.com
+1 206-390-6637

Slice Intelligence says the new MacBook Pro accumulated more revenue SO FAR, from online orders during its first five days of availability than the Microsoft Surface Book, ASUS Chromebook Flip, Dell Inspiron 2-in-1, and Lenovo Yoga 900, based on e-receipt data from 12,979 online shoppers in the United States.

If I sell apples and oranges by the street for 8 hours, and I sell 10 apples and 8 oranges in the first 5 minutes, it does not indicate that apples are the winner.

I'm SURE they don't have any relationship whatsoever.

I'm gonna look up "Slice Intelligence" and see where they're headquartered and if they have any satellite locations. Ah. Here ya go, and BTW, San Mateo, CA and Cupertino, CA are about 50 miles apart:

PALO ALTO OFFICE
Slice
800 Concar Drive, Floor 5
San Mateo, CA 94402

MEDIA
jaimee@slice.com
+1 206-390-6637

Slice Intelligence says the new MacBook Pro accumulated more revenue SO FAR, from online orders during its first five days of availability than the Microsoft Surface Book, ASUS Chromebook Flip, Dell Inspiron 2-in-1, and Lenovo Yoga 900, based on e-receipt data from 12,979 online shoppers in the United States.

If I sell apples and oranges by the street for 8 hours, and I sell 10 apples and 8 oranges in the first 5 minutes, it does not indicate that apples are the winner.

I'm SURE they don't have any relationship whatsoever.

I'm gonna look up "Slice Intelligence" and see where they're headquartered and if they have any satellite locations. Ah. Here ya go, and BTW, San Mateo, CA and Cupertino, CA are about 50 miles apart:

PALO ALTO OFFICE
Slice
800 Concar Drive, Floor 5
San Mateo, CA 94402

MEDIA
jaimee@slice.com
+1 206-390-6637

Slice Intelligence says the new MacBook Pro accumulated more revenue SO FAR, from online orders during its first five days of availability than the Microsoft Surface Book, ASUS Chromebook Flip, Dell Inspiron 2-in-1, and Lenovo Yoga 900, based on e-receipt data from 12,979 online shoppers in the United States.

If I sell apples and oranges by the street for 8 hours, and I sell 10 apples and 8 oranges in the first 5 minutes, it does not indicate that apples are the winner.

I'm SURE they don't have any relationship whatsoever.

I'm gonna look up "Slice Intelligence" and see where they're headquartered and if they have any satellite locations. Ah. Here ya go, and BTW, San Mateo, CA and Cupertino, CA are about 50 miles apart:

PALO ALTO OFFICE
Slice
800 Concar Drive, Floor 5
San Mateo, CA 94402

MEDIA
jaimee@slice.com
+1 206-390-6637

Slice Intelligence says the new MacBook Pro accumulated more revenue SO FAR, from online orders during its first five days of availability than the Microsoft Surface Book, ASUS Chromebook Flip, Dell Inspiron 2-in-1, and Lenovo Yoga 900, based on e-receipt data from 12,979 online shoppers in the United States.

If I sell apples and oranges by the street for 8 hours, and I sell 10 apples and 8 oranges in the first 5 minutes, it does not indicate that apples are the winner.

I'm SURE they don't have any relationship whatsoever.

I'm gonna look up "Slice Intelligence" and see where they're headquartered and if they have any satellite locations. Ah. Here ya go, and BTW, San Mateo, CA and Cupertino, CA are about 50 miles apart:

PALO ALTO OFFICE
Slice
800 Concar Drive, Floor 5
San Mateo, CA 94402

MEDIA
jaimee@slice.com
+1 206-390-6637

Apple *do* know their target markets after all!

Macrumors is making a claim that is not supported by the data they link to. If you click though to the data all these say is that it has generated more revenue that a random selection of four other laptops. Given the prices that Apple charges for these things the revenue per laptop is going to be significantly higher than other manufacturers so there is nothing in the data which indicates they have outsold other machines given that the usual interpretation of that is "sold more units". In fact if you look at the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 a quick Google search suggests that the price of this is between $330-$1,000 in Canada compared to the cost of a MacBook Pro which is 5-10 times the price (of course this depends a lot on the configurations sold). Hence, in terms of sales volume, the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 may actually be comparable to the MacBook Pro although it is clearly in an entirely different class given those prices. Thus given a cursory inspection of the data it seems that the claim that the MacBook Pro has 'out sold' all other Laptops is completely unfounded. For a start you would need to look at sales volume and then you would need to compare it to laptops similar to the MacBook Pro such as the Dell XPS etc. not the cheapest possible laptops you can find where the low price requires ~5 times or more the sales volume. To support this you'll note the the closest in the data to the MacBook Pro is the Surface Book which is also closest in price.

Apple *do* know their target markets after all!

Macrumors is making a claim that is not supported by the data they link to. If you click though to the data all these say is that it has generated more revenue that a random selection of four other laptops. Given the prices that Apple charges for these things the revenue per laptop is going to be significantly higher than other manufacturers so there is nothing in the data which indicates they have outsold other machines given that the usual interpretation of that is "sold more units". In fact if you look at the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 a quick Google search suggests that the price of this is between $330-$1,000 in Canada compared to the cost of a MacBook Pro which is 5-10 times the price (of course this depends a lot on the configurations sold). Hence, in terms of sales volume, the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 may actually be comparable to the MacBook Pro although it is clearly in an entirely different class given those prices. Thus given a cursory inspection of the data it seems that the claim that the MacBook Pro has 'out sold' all other Laptops is completely unfounded. For a start you would need to look at sales volume and then you would need to compare it to laptops similar to the MacBook Pro such as the Dell XPS etc. not the cheapest possible laptops you can find where the low price requires ~5 times or more the sales volume. To support this you'll note the the closest in the data to the MacBook Pro is the Surface Book which is also closest in price.

One of the machines compared-with is the new Surface Book, which is DEFINITELY intended as DIRECT competition for the 13" MBP. HOWEVER, When I configured a 13" non-TouchBar MBP (to keep it fair) and the Surface Book with the top i7 CPU (both are Skylake, but the Surface book specs don't specify speed or number of cores), 16 GB RAM, and 1 TB SSD, the MBP was $2599, but the Surface Book was $3199. And the Suface Book has no USB-C, and more importantly, no TB 3 (only MiniDP). IOW, the MBP has 40 Gbps of multifunctional I/O bandwidth, while the Surface Book has 10 Gbps of USB 3.0, plus a DisplayPort.

And yet, the MacBook Pro was STILL $600 CHEAPER THAN THE SURFACE BOOK!

In fact, you could get the top-end Touch Bar 13" MBP, co

Apple *do* know their target markets after all!

Macrumors is making a claim that is not supported by the data they link to. If you click though to the data all these say is that it has generated more revenue that a random selection of four other laptops. Given the prices that Apple charges for these things the revenue per laptop is going to be significantly higher than other manufacturers so there is nothing in the data which indicates they have outsold other machines given that the usual interpretation of that is "sold more units". In fact if you look at the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 a quick Google search suggests that the price of this is between $330-$1,000 in Canada compared to the cost of a MacBook Pro which is 5-10 times the price (of course this depends a lot on the configurations sold). Hence, in terms of sales volume, the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 may actually be comparable to the MacBook Pro although it is clearly in an entirely different class given those prices. Thus given a cursory inspection of the data it seems that the claim that the MacBook Pro has 'out sold' all other Laptops is completely unfounded. For a start you would need to look at sales volume and then you would need to compare it to laptops similar to the MacBook Pro such as the Dell XPS etc. not the cheapest possible laptops you can find where the low price requires ~5 times or more the sales volume. To support this you'll note the the closest in the data to the MacBook Pro is the Surface Book which is also closest in price.

Apple *do* know their target markets after all!

Macrumors is making a claim that is not supported by the data they link to. If you click though to the data all these say is that it has generated more revenue that a random selection of four other laptops. Given the prices that Apple charges for these things the revenue per laptop is going to be significantly higher than other manufacturers so there is nothing in the data which indicates they have outsold other machines given that the usual interpretation of that is "sold more units". In fact if you look at the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 a quick Google search suggests that the price of this is between $330-$1,000 in Canada compared to the cost of a MacBook Pro which is 5-10 times the price (of course this depends a lot on the configurations sold). Hence, in terms of sales volume, the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 may actually be comparable to the MacBook Pro although it is clearly in an entirely different class given those prices. Thus given a cursory inspection of the data it seems that the claim that the MacBook Pro has 'out sold' all other Laptops is completely unfounded. For a start you would need to look at sales volume and then you would need to compare it to laptops similar to the MacBook Pro such as the Dell XPS etc. not the cheapest possible laptops you can find where the low price requires ~5 times or more the sales volume. To support this you'll note the the closest in the data to the MacBook Pro is the Surface Book which is also closest in price.

One of the machines compared-with is the new Surface Book, which is DEFINITELY intended as DIRECT competition for the 13" MBP. HOWEVER, When I configured a 13" non-TouchBar MBP (to keep it fair) and the Surface Book with the top i7 CPU (both are Skylake, but the Surface book specs don't specify speed or number of cores), 16 GB RAM, and 1 TB SSD, the MBP was $2599, but the Surface Book was $3199. And the Suface Book has no USB-C, and more importantly, no TB 3 (only MiniDP). IOW, the MBP has 40 Gbps of multifunctional I/O bandwidth, while the Surface Book has 10 Gbps of USB 3.0, plus a DisplayPort.

And yet, the MacBook Pro was STILL $600 CHEAPER THAN THE SURFACE BOOK!

In fact, you could get the top-end Touch Bar 13" MBP, co

Apple *do* know their target markets after all!

Macrumors is making a claim that is not supported by the data they link to. If you click though to the data all these say is that it has generated more revenue that a random selection of four other laptops.

Given the prices that Apple charges for these things the revenue per laptop is going to be significantly higher than other manufacturers so there is nothing in the data which indicates they have outsold other machines given that the usual interpretation of that is "sold more units". In fact if you look at the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 a quick Google search suggests that the price of this is between $330-$1,000 in Canada compared to the cost of a MacBook Pro which is 5-10 times the price (of course this depends a lot on the configurations sold). Hence, in terms of sales volume, the Dell Inspiron 2 in 1 may actually be comparable to the MacBook Pro although it is clearly in an entirely different class given those prices.

Thus given a cursory inspection of the data it seems that the claim that the MacBook Pro has 'out sold' all other Laptops is completely unfounded. For a start you would need to look at sales volume and then you would need to compare it to laptops similar to the MacBook Pro such as the Dell XPS etc. not the cheapest possible laptops you can find where the low price requires ~5 times or more the sales volume. To support this you'll note the the closest in the data to the MacBook Pro is the Surface Book which is also closest in price.