A le receives "outperform" rating on back of MacBooks

The MacBooks are selling well. Really well. According to an article at A le I ider, shipments of the iffy little lapto are currently 200,000 units ahead of the initial estimate (580,000) made by Robert Semple of Credit Sui e equity research. Semple identifies the education market and back-to-school sho ing (as well as the attractive $1099US price tag) as being largely re o ible for the impre ive sales. This has caused both A le's fourth quarter earnings estimate and fiscal year 2007 estimates to climb.

I can tell you that we ordered a couple here at my day job, as well as a single MacBook Pro from a third party vendor, and they're all back ordered. We'll see what effect tomorrow's a ouncement has on A le's projected bottom line soon enough (I'm gue ing it won't be bad).