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You're right, "rotting on the shelves" was perhaps a tad overboard, but based upon the statement from the friendly salesman at Staples (not a Mac head at all--he likes Windows), who said they were having great problems selling Compaqs and HPS and were down to two floor models used as demos.

On the other hand, Apple now runs their own stores and claim to be selling well. Their new store in Vegas is doing excellent business and it's a nice looking place where a person can actually try the products and get tech help (at last!). Apple also claims that well over 600,000 businesses now are on MAC as they like the sturdy platform and OS 10.2 that seldom crashes. I enjoy these friendly interchanges.

I thought Apple always had there own stores…or at least for a long time.

Fun Facts: I was factory trained on the Apple II, IIe, III, and Lisa.

The Mac has held steady at about a 3% market share - maybe this will change but the iMac and the other "revolutionary" Apple products didn't seem to budge their market share.

I have always liked Apple - I just think their main strategy sucks. On the Apple side you have ONE company driving everything. On the Windows/Intel/IBM/Microsoft/Linux/AMD/etc./etc. side you have hundreds of companies and no one company controls it all (no matter how much Mac-Heads claim Microsoft pulls all the strings - heck, Microsoft does not even make computers).

I have tons of Wintel machines - I use Windows 98 (for my kids games, they are young), Windows 2000 for servers and my recording studio desktop, and Windows XP for my desk, laptop, and my wife's computer. We run a business out of our house so I also host web servers - I use Windows 2000 and Linux. I like the options. I don't want Microsoft dictating to me what I can and can’t do with my machine. If I use Linux I don't want Microsoft Linux - so why the HECK do Mac-People find that one company tells me what I can and can't do model so acceptable. Wouldn’t Mac people rather use REAL Linux than Apple’s Linux variant? I also have Palm and PocketPC PDA’s along with a Blackberry – I like choices (maybe that is why I am not a big fan of the Mac)

Apple is like a communist country. Apple tells you what you want and Apple users say “Please Sir, can I have some more”

If Apple had kept the open architecture of the Apple IIe in the Mac – I bet the Mac would be the dominant computers. But instead Apple went for and still goes for maximum profits. I really don’t like one company having so much power over my computing needs and I can’t figure out why Mac-Heads find that acceptable.

Mac’s are GREAT and you can do whatever it is you want to do on a Mac BUT Mac’s do not blow away PC’s – THAT is the only real gripe I have with Mac-Heads.

You're right, "rotting on the shelves" was perhaps a tad overboard, but based upon the statement from the friendly salesman at Staples (not a Mac head at all--he likes Windows), who said they were having great problems selling Compaqs and HPS and were down to two floor models used as demos.

Funny, only having the floor models left usually implies the items are "selling like hotcakes" - having a large inventory using means something is no selling.

I bought me mom an HP computer for Christmas (1.7GHz,60 G HB,17" monitor, color printer, XP, graphic software, etc., etc,) for $550.00 (amazing!) - anyway I bought it at Best Buy - the place was PACKED with people buying PC's there were lines of people checking out with PC’s - they had PC stacked to the ceiling and they were flying out the door. Fear not - PC's are selling like Hotcakes (for my antagonist friend - THAT is direct experience).