Apple ships five million copies of Leopard in three months

It was but a few months ago that Apple trumpeted the fact that two million copies of Leopard had been sold in its first weekend. As of Macworld 2008, you can add three million more to that figure. According to Jobs, it's the "most successful release of OS X ever," and nearly 20-percent of the install base has made the leap to 10.5. Oh, and just in case you were wondering about Office Mac 2008, it is indeed shipping today, which means that all the "big apps" for OS X are finally Intel native.

[Andrew @ Jan 15th 2008 2:00PM]

I wonder how many copies the torrent world has passed around. I, for one, am running downloaded OSX.

[Jeff Lewis @ Jan 15th 2008 2:37PM]

Now... last year Jobs noted that there was an installed base for MacOS of all kinds of 22m. This year it's 25m more or less.

Here's the interesting thing - know what the installed base for Macs was in 1998?

22m. (From the keynote in that year...)

To every upgrade.. Churn, churn, churn...

[josh @ Jan 15th 2008 2:58PM]

20% adoption in 3 months is pretty darn good, but wow does that really show the market share difference between OS X and Windows. Vista can sell 20 million copies in a month and it is barely a blip on the windows install base. I bet MS would have loved to have had a 20% adoption after 3 months.

[Galley @ Jan 15th 2008 3:22PM]

I finally got my $30 rebate from buying Leopard on launch day at CompUSA. I was getting pretty worried, with it being CompUSA and all.

[jagtony @ Jan 15th 2008 8:46PM]

What ever happen to Leopard 5.2 or any upgrade to fix all the problems with Disk Utility for repairing permissions and other stuff thats needs fixing?

[Mas @ Jan 15th 2008 10:56PM]

SHIP means NOTHING
what did they SELLLLLL?

marketins sure is great!