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• $1.05 billion in profit, up from $770 million.
• Just under 2.3 million Macs sold — representing 51 percent unit growth and 54 percent revenue growth. This is incredible. I remember being pleased when over 750 000 Macs were sold in a quarter. Now it’s three times that. If Apple were selling 750K Macs and had 5% of the market….and the PC market has actually shrunk….but Apple’s shipments have grown…what percentage do they have now?
• 10.6 million iPods sold, up 1 percent (but 6 percent revenue-wise). How many of these are shuffles? How many are iPod touch? That’s the important breakdown!
• 1.7 million iPhones sold. That’s not bad for this quarter and they have three more quarters before the end of the year. Apple reckons they will hit 10 million iPhones by year end.

It’s all very interesting. Still no official news on the Apple Store for Belfast, however!

“As further evidence of the growing interest in Macs among enterprise customers, IBM’s Research Information Services launched an internal pilot program designed to study the possibility of moving significant numbers of employees to the Mac platform. The study has already found an enthusiastic response from participants and is helping to drive Mac support for IBM’s business applications.”

Here’s the link on RoughlyDrafted?

Yesterday, for Apple’s portable lineup, there were massive changes.

The Macbook Pro and MacBooks were all updated with new Penryn processors. I don’t really care what that means except that they run faster and using less heat and power so there’s apparently a modest increase in battery life.
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We’re having our March meeting on Monday the 24th.
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BBC Worldwide brings iTunes users in the UK the best of British TV programmes from the BBC. Our programmes are exciting, compelling, passionate, provocative, bold, unpredictable and moving, and include some of the best comedy — Little Britain, The Catherine Tate Show and Two Pints of Lager & a Packet of Crisps — and a fantastic selection of contemporary drama, including Torchwood, Spooks and Life on Mars, all available to download now. New titles will be added regularly, including top-quality documentary series and brand-new drama and comedy

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RSS is a really useful way of staying up to date with the latest news. If you’re using Safari, you can see a Blue RSS icon in the address bar above.

Click it. Then bookmark it. It’ll automatically update with any new articles. It will allow you to read updates in nimug.org every time they are created. If you’re using Leopard you can read them in Mail! And there are several excellent third party products which will enhance your RSS experience.

Try it. You can always go back!

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Here’s the link.

There’s bound to be a few Mac genius types out there!

Apple is running what is hopefully the first of a series of technical events in Belfast starting with “Server Infrastructure and System Imaging” using Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server.

It’s going to be quite technical as you can see from the PDF and aimed at IT staff who have good IT and OSX skills.

You need to register as soon as possible! It’s a full day of information from Apple in their server technologies! If Apple get a good attendance from us they’ll consider doing more - we have the interest in Northern Ireland, we just need to tell Apple about it!

Click on the invitation link, read the details and send an email!

Server Technology Invitation (240K download, PDF)

Hope to see you all there.

and we embrace 2008.

Have fun tonight celebrating Old Years Night and tomorrow.