[AxelPaulsenJr]

Yup, as bad as Mac continues to tell us PC is, PC still continues to out sell Mac by embarrassing numbers.

[Swordmaker]

Yup, as bad as Mac continues to tell us PC is, PC still continues to out sell Mac by embarrassing numbers.

30% growth rate year-over-year, six times the industry average, now more than 8% of the US market (up from just over 6% one year ago), with an installed base among US consumers of over 15%, that's not embarrassing. Those are not embarrassing numbers.

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A third of new PCs being downgraded to XP, says metrics researcher

Vista may be what Microsoft sells, but XP remains popular

By Gregg Keizer

August 18, 2008 (Computerworld) More than one in every three new PCs is downgraded from Windows Vista to the older Windows XP, either at the factory or by the buyer, a performance and metrics researcher said today.

According to Devil Mountain Software Inc., which operates a community-based testing network, nearly 35% of the 3,000-plus PCs it examined had been downgraded from Vista to XP.

"Either these machines were downgraded by [sellers like] Dell or HP, or they were downgraded by the user after they got the machine," said Craig Barth, chief technology officer at Devil Mountain. "In any case, these machines are no longer running Vista."

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Now, that's embarrassing.

[mass55th]

"Yup, as bad as Mac continues to tell us PC is, PC still continues to out sell Mac by embarrassing numbers. "

Yes, but do they last as long or have lesser problems than a Mac?

[itsahoot]

PC still continues to out sell Mac by embarrassing numbers.

Yep 42 inch big screen TV's still outsell the 52 to 60 inchers too. The big screen guys should close up shop I guess.