As Cyber Monday approaches, it’s interesting to take a look at Amazon.com’s Most Wished For lists, particularly as Amazon.com topped the list of online retailers on Black Friday. Among laptops (not netbooks), Apple on the list with the top three laptops (click above image to enlarge).
That’s at the time of this writing, of course, and the top wished for laptop period is really a netbook, a version of the Asus Eee PC. Still in terms of “real” notebooks, Apple took the top three spots.
Those three, in order, were the following:
- Apple MacBook MC207LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop
- Apple MacBook Pro MB991LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop
- Apple MacBook Pro MB990LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop
Realistically, two of those are really the same laptop with different specifications. However, speaking of realism, let’s look at the “most gifted” laptop section of Amazon.com to see if people are getting those MacBooks they want.
The answer is, sort of. One of the MacBook Pros listed above, the Apple MacBook Pro MB990LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop is number 3 on the “most gifted” list, which the MacBook listed above is number 4 on the list. The top two are a Toshiba Satellite laptop and an Acer Aspire notebook (which verges on netbook specs). The other MacBook Pro listed above is way down at number 11.
Interestingly, the MacBooks all come in Amazon.com’s “frustration-free” packaging, which is a boon to most people, but there are some who actually save their Mac boxes, so those people wouldn’t be too happy. Also not to happy: Microsoft. While they have the top two “gifted” laptops in Amazon.com’s list, it has to be grating to see the Mac placement in the “most wished for” list.
