Posted on 07/19/2005 10:51:08 AM PDT by HAL9000
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SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Computer moved up a notch to become the No.4 seller of personal computers in the United States in the second quarter as Macintosh sales soared by one-third, according to two reports. Lenovo, the Chinese company that owns the IBM personal computer brand, lost share.Apple won 4.5 percent of the market to trail Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Gateway, the market research company IDC said Monday in a report. IDC's rival Gartner put Apple's share at 4.3 percent.
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Yeah, I just can't get all that excited about a company named Lenovo.
4.5 percent? It doesn't appear that many people are very excited about Apple either!
Wow, that's SERIESLY HUGH.
Look out, Windoze. Here comes the mightly Apple juggernaut!!! </sarcasm>
Hmm, I'm not sure that's anything to brag about. I have worked in several large corporate IT environments and I'm not sure I've ever seen an IBM desktop.
Laoptops and servers, however, are all over the place.
They make great servers, but that is not a part of the ChiCom deal.
Just curious.
You know I was pricing out the upperend of the "T" series for Thinkpads last niht and I was not all that impressed by the bang for the buck.
I have. It was a 20MB, dual floppy unit. Had an IBM logo on it!
"Look out, Windoze. Here comes the mightly Apple juggernaut!!! "
I believe if you added up the number of machines Apple has EVER sold it does not come close to the figure of PC's sold last quarter alone ...
"I have. It was a 20MB, dual floppy unit. Had an IBM logo on it!"
Had an IBM portable, with a CRT.
This little beastie fits right on top of one of my bookends. And, as shown above, it's scarcely larger than a double-CD jewel case.
In spite of that, it holds a 10/100 NIC, 56K modem, DVI/VGA converter, 2 USB-2 slots and 1 firewire slot, plus a CD-RW/DVD-RW, 80 GB HD and 512 MB RAM.
The whole thing only set me back around $500. That makes it pretty competitive with the PC market.
"You laughing at me?
Hell, I'm laughing all the way
to the bank, sucker!"
If you added up the number of worms, viruses and spyware on all of the Macs that Apple has ever sold, it would not come close the the number that have infected one average Windows computer.
My company, a major worldwide company has used IBM past 3 years. We will be migrating to Dell later this year, though
From http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/5933/
"Macintosh software comprises over 18% of all software sold, according to the Software and Information Industry Association. In addition, the Software Publishers Association (SPA) estimates that 16 percent of computer users are on Macs."
In other words, while the actual sales of Macs is pretty low (a bit over 4 percent), those actually using Macs (for a number of reasons) is quite a bit higher.
And that's all I have to say about that. You guys use what you want, and as a Mac-using software developer, audio/video editor, and website developer, I'll continue having the competitive advantage over you.
Competitive advantage? LOL! Look at the pricing structures, the software availability, the parts availability. To each his own... and as far as the infecting, no one considers Apple to be a target because there aren't enough to make it worth their effort. As for keeping a PC clean, anyone with half a brain can prevent that.
"As for keeping a PC clean, anyone with half a brain can prevent that."
Well, considering just how many PC users are having major problems, it would appear that a majority of them are laboring through life with less than half a brain.
I'd say, yep, competitive advantage. Apples rarely break, so spare parts is largely a boogeyman. Most of the difference in "software availability" is for non-productivity software such as games and card making programs and other dreck. No Apple-centric network requires an IT manager as long as no Windoze machines are hooked into it. A Mac remains very useable for up to a decade or more after installation in my own experience.
"From h ttp://macdailynews.com..."
LOL
Do you gather your political statistics from DU ?
"Well, considering just how many PC users are having major problems, it would appear that a majority of them are laboring through life with less than half a brain."
... and the amount of brain power required to keep a Mac from acquiring spyware is ... ? LOL
I wonder what the balance sheets would look like without the IPod cash cow ?
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