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> Apple claims it shipped more than a million PowerPC units in the first > year – but they don't explain that their original projections were for > a million PowerPC *systems* and, in fact, they had to include upgrade > cards to make their million claim. That's not really very encouraging. Tisk, tisk. Apple will easily make their "million systems" by the one year mark. They claimed they passed one million systems/upgrades at the _ten_ month mark. They will not cross a year until the 15th of March. At that time, they will have sold well over a million systems. With upgrades they will probably be much closer to 1.3 million. The whole point being, by lumping in upgrades with systems it gives developers a better idea of how many PowerPC machines are out there and can help them base decisions on writing software on. If Apple was trying to "mask" the sytems count they would not have broken the total into how many cards, vs. how many systems which is what they did. Oh well….