Posted on 01/28/2015 10:52:49 AM PST by Star Traveler
Forget the post-PC era. The Mac just continues to get bigger. For its fiscal 2015 first quarter that ended Dec. 27, 2014, Apple sold 5.5 million Macs. Thats up 9% year-over-year and up 14% from the previous quarter and brought in revenue of US$6.9 billion.
Apple has gained market share verses Windows PCs in all quarters since 2005 but one. The Mac has surpassed overall PC growth for 34 of the last 35 quarters.The Macs unit share of the worldwide PC market has grown from 2.1% in 2005 to 5.5% in 2013. Apples U.S. market share is somewhere between 10% and 14%, depending on whose statistics you believe.
(Excerpt) Read more at appledailyreport.com ...
Windows 8.x is the straw that finally broke camel’s Windows PC back.
At least Windows 7 more or less works and is a useable and productive OS so long as you dodn’t install a plethora of 3rd party crapware (and their annoying updaters), dysfunctional 3rd party devices and drivers (and THEIR annoying updaters), and/or a slew of viruses.
But forcing a bizarre, touch-centric cell-phone interface for all PC’s on Earth on top of all of the above was just too much, hence formerly loyal Windows customers fled in every possible direction like rats jumping from a sinking ship.
(BTW, I don’t think Windows 10 will be any miracle OS; it’ll just be Windows 8.x with more Microsoft integrated crap and gimmicks like Cortana, which have nearly zero utility on any Windows PC in the business, commercial, industrial or government environment. For example, does anyone remember the painful, mouseless, voice-activated photo pan, zoom, and crop scene in “Blade Runner”?)
In the rather large company I work for, a lot of developers are switching from Dells to Macs. My Dell is an i7 with 8 gig ram and 256 ssd. Those switching to macs are getting 16 gig of ram instead (dell says that 8 maxes out my box, but I think it would probably work with 16). We run virtual boxes on both platforms, but they are now giving us the choice. The only macs around just a few years ago were for testing our products on safari.
I have a Mac and a Windows box at my desk, I usually use RDC on the Mac to access the Windows box.
I would guess you are from California ...
You said:
“...that the Microsoft Surface software will NOT be updatable to Windows 10”.
That is not true.
You might want to google “hackintosh”
You set me up with the equivalent of the iMac Retina/5k 27", i7 4ghz, 16gig of ram, 1tb hybrid/ssd drive, for a fraction of the cost and I will buy it. I want one of those...
bump
Apple is now selling a 27 inch 5k display for $2500 and throwing in a free computer: the Imac with retina display.
That is the one I want. Looks like a killer box. I tried to compare it to a Dell all-in-one. Similar specs, except for the monitor - about 1/2 the pixels on the dell monitor...
When I used my corporate or school discount, I was able to upgrade to the i7 with 16 gig, and keep the price around 2700...I would really like to have that box sitting at home...my daughter does photoshop work and it would be fun for both of us.
It’s amazing how Apple packs the computer right in behind the screen! It looks like it’s just a monitor and nothing more!
Looks like deadend hardware and software, from Microsoft.
You are obviously superior to me, in your technical computer knowledge.
I am a mere consumer and user.
Apple has proved to be the superior company, in terms of serving the wider base of non-technical users these days.
As a mere nontechnical user, I have found it annoying to have to learn the changes, with each Windows version’s “improvements.”
I note about half of their versions are duds. If I had invested in Microsoft, I would be concerned with the ratio of their duds.
Others may like to play with computers, as a hobbyist. I got over that very quickly.
The difference between the two platforms (and this is very true and fundamental) ... is that on the one platform “the user lives for the machine” ... while on the other platform, “the machine lives for the user”.
I’ll let the reader guess which one applies to what platform ... and you’ll have absolutely no problem knowing which applies!
“Vista was the final straw for me. Macs are fine, but Linux was cheaper.”
Linux was cheap if you can’t otherwise sell that time in IT for more. Trying to get a machine that worked with the latest hardware up and running with Linux was always a pain, along with constant rewrites of core pieces of the operating system that fixed some bugs and introduced others.
At the beginning of this month I gave it up and bought a Mac Mini. My computer just works now, and I have access to a shell and terminal when I need it. I’m in the middle of working on a minimal viable product for a startup instead of messing around with configuration files, wondering why X won’t start.
That is not what you said.
Your article is only referring to the RT version of the Surface 2. You had clearly said that MS was not updating the Surface, which consists of more than that one model.
“That is not what you said.
Your article is only referring to the RT version of the Surface 2. You had clearly said that MS was not updating the Surface, which consists of more than that one model.”
So now that you know where I was coming from, care to address the other aspects?
I have been working on a hackintosh lately except I’m trying to use an amd instead of intel.
When I get it working I’ll delete it and stay with Linux . mac is just a hyped up BSD.
And to Swordmaker and Startraveler , get a room already. :)
Question: “Why do the British drink warm beer?”
Answer: “Lucas refrigerators.”
The RT question is not completely clear. From some articles they arent going to support ARM-based Surface machines with Win10, other say they will. So I dont know. They will have to give more details.
I could have written your post!
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