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Both you and Chief Information Officer Magazine had to redefine servers and workstations as being something esoteric that is discarded from the statistics to make that assertion work. But power users have always bought just that even for home use.

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.

Posting off topic sales figures on your part does not now, and never will translate into processing power on the part of Apple’s machines.

The topic was “high end”.

since Apple doesn’t do well in that respect you personally seem to want to redefine the thread title to “Best Selling” or perhaps “Popular with executives and artists - who are really cool dudes”

But in the view of those of us focused on raw processing power and speed, Apple has always been just a cute toy.

And it still is.

Contrary to your silly diatribe, I never said Apple didn’t sell. I said it wasn’t in the running to be considered “high end”. I can’t remember any articles about cutting edge CAD programs changing engineering or any similar topics mentioning Apple machines ever. They are not up to the task.