In fact, Apple has sold as many Intel-based Macs in four years as the total number of PPC Macs sold from 1996 to the end of the PPC era in mid-2006, a period of over 10 years. So Apple has been selling all-Intel macs and nothing but intel-based Macs since mid-2006.įrom mid-2006 to mid-2010, Apple has sold at least 36M Intel based Macs, more than double the number of PPC Macs sold from 2001 to mid-2006. (the totals above are sourced, btw, from Apple's own quarterly reports as compiled by Gartner.) I'm being *incredibly* generous on the numbers on your side of this equation, btw. Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM is still running. Many millions more, in fact.įrom 2001 to mid-2006, Apple sold about 18 million PPC Macs total (none of the figures I'm using include iPods or iPhones of any type - just Macintosh computers).
In point of fact, there are more Intel Macs in service now than PPC machines by a wide margin.
