Apple primed to hit 10 per cent in 2008
Computing division alive and well, shock
NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS that one in ten PCs on the web will be of a fruity flavour by the end of 2008.
Research firm Net Applications reckons that, as of December, 7.3 per cent of all visits to its suite of statistic-gathering websites are from Macs, and that the figure is growing at around half a percentage point a month.
The figure marks a definitive comeback for Apple's computing business. While the Ipod and mobile phone divisions get most of the glory, the steady rise of the Imac and Macbook sales over 2007 have created some big opportunities for Apple to get back into the mainstream of desktop computing.
The Macbook was the top-selling notebook on Amazon over the Christmas period, which goes to show just how much mindshare Cupertino is amassing.
A quick stick in the eye for all the Linux fans out there, too - according to Net Applications, the number of clients surfing the web via Iphone will exceed those on Linux by the end of 2008. Ouch. µ
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About damn time Apple started offering Microsoft some decent competition, hopefully it will become big enough to have Microsoft actually put some effort and thinking into their next OS.Apple hardware is for fools.
Check the specs, you can buy a Windows based laptop for less then have the price of the same specked MacBook. When you can buy OSX 10.5 for $129. ACER laptop for $1198+OSX = MacBookPro for $2700. Only a fool would buy a Apple. Not to mention the Apple only comes with a 1 year warrenty. The CPU , RAM and everything else is interchangeable with Windows based laptop. That little Apple emblem is just a little over priced.Vista
In my opinion I'd say Apple has had a massive helping hand from Microsoft last year. Vista is so utterly terrible that it's making people seriously think about alternatives to Windows for the first time in a long time. I certainly know that when I was picking a replacement I found myself wondering how a sleek aluminium Macbook Pro would fair against a plastic fantastic fall-apart-in-five-minutes PC with a daft shiny screen, and while the PC was cheaper and OSX was a bit of an unknown quantity, the prospect of Vista was enough to make me plop for the more expensive Macbook Pro. I'm very happy with it by the way, from an engineering POV it seems to do things the way I would assume was best, like it doesn't appear to page at all until physical memory is running out, whereas Windows is always paging regardless of how much real memory is free.I'm no surprised
I just bought my first Mac - a the base level MacBook. It's a nice little machine, gets good battery life, easy to view screen, nice and light, etc.
Altogether a very nicely built machine.
As to OSX - it's nice too. I've run every version of Windows (except Vista), Ubuntu 5, 6, and 7, Mandriva 2007 and 2008, OS2, GEM, and GEOS. OSX is easier to use.
Apple has done a nice job - the rest of the industry had better beware.
My only complaint so far was the Apple store. I use a cane to get around, and the store was so crowded that I ended up on my feet for 1/2 an hour - which was a source of major pain.