Thank you for playing, you may pick up your consolation prize on the way out.
Who to believe, MrEdd—an unknown guy who REALLY wants to believe that Apple is just a marginal player in the PC Market segments—who claims that Macs have never been dominant in the over $1000 PC market segment , or the published data from numerous sources that say he hasn't got a clue about what he is talking about. What a conundrum. Not.
Gee, I think I will go with CIO Magazine, ITWorld, Computerworld, Silicon.com, ZDNEt, NetworkWorld, Forbes Magazine, Gizmodo, BetaNews, Current Tech, and dozens, if not hundreds, of other industry news sources that have posted or published articles this month asserting that Apple has a 91% share of the over $1000 premium PC market in the second quarter of 2009.
And the domination is not just currently either. In May Apple was reported as having over 88% of the over $1,000 PC market in the first quarter of 2009. Apple's share of this market segment has been growing for several years, especially as the other PC vendors have been racing each other to the bottom of the barrel, bargain basement market segment. In the First Quarter of 2008, Apple had 66% of the over $1,000 PC Market as reported in eWeek:
and InformationWeek.
You also seem to forget that Apple Mac Pros are Workstation class computers with Intel® Xeon® multicore processors... and Apple sells a LOT of Mac Pros. . . those are included in the over $1000 premium PC Market segment... and Apple also sells the xServe servers, which are not probably not included in this segment as servers really are not considered personal computers.
You can keep your "consolation prize", you've earned it through wishful thinking and by ignoring the published data.