



At that time, the OS X installed base was 12 million and Tiger sales added $125 million to the quarter," Munster says. "The Mac OS X installed base is now approximately 23 million, so we expect Leopard to add approximately $240 million to the Dec. 2007 quarter. This assumes similar uptake rates to the Tiger launch, which saw 15 percent of the user base upgrade in just six weeks (eventually 66 percent of the user base upgraded to Tiger)."
The analyst is also predicting some major announcements at January's Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. He thinks Apple will unveil a touch-screen based PDA that's slightly bigger than an iPhone (which some wags have dubbed the yet-to-be-announced device the [url=http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/rumors_of_the_newtons_resurrection]Newton II[/url]) and/or an ultra-portable subcompact (the also rumored [url="MacBook Thin"[/url]).
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