Amazon thinks Macs are out selling PC’s - What are they thinking?

Amazon have gone down in my expectations today, I’m a huge fan of Amazon for their great prices and wide product portfolio. Some of you may already know that Amazon has Meters to show how one product is out selling others.

Today Amazon posted one entitled “Apple vs Windows OS” showing that Apple Macs are out selling Windows PC’s. They have gotten the results by measuring the sales of 5 Macs to 5 Windows machines. There are two major flaws that I can see in this though. First one being that they are only comparing notebooks, yes Amazon sell a lot more Notebooks than actually desktop machines but it never stated this in its poll and Windows easily sells more desktops than Apple.

Second they aren’t even comparing the top PC’s, as they are with the Mac’s. These are where the compared Notebooks are in the best selling notebooks list on Amazon.

20	HP Pavilion TX1420US		1	Apple MacBook MB403LL/A
22	HP Pavilion Artist Edition		2	Apple MacBook Pro MB133LL/A
32	Sony VAIO VGN-CR320E		4	Apple MacBook MB404LL/A
74	Sony VAIO VGN-NR240E		9	Apple MacBook Air MB003LL/A
NA	Toshiba Satellite A205-S5812		29	Apple MacBook Pro MA895LL/A

Yes looking at the best selling list the Mac notebooks do dominate the top, however there are Windows Notebooks that are higher up in the rankings that could have been compared, such as the HP Pavilion TX2120US at number 12.

I think Amazon have fiddled with the figures a bit to put Mac’s in a more favourable light to try and sell a few more. And only comparing 5 from each OS is flawed in its self because there are hundreds more PC’s than Macs meaning that PC’s can less of each specific model but still come top in overall sales, which they do.

More Info

• Take a look at the “Apple vs Windows OS” Meter