pcworld.com — Apple is moving up the charts, toppling Acer to become the third largest PC vendor in the U.S., according to a survey from Gartner. Apple defied a weakening economy to record a 38.1 percent growth rate in U.S. PC shipments, according to Gartner. Overall PC shipments in the U.S. grew just 4.2 percent to 16.5 million units during the quarter.
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Acer is an OEM provider for Mac laptops.
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what an awesome comment, lead2thehead. take for example a microcosm of a college campus where literally 40% of the students use macs. you don't see them spreading viruses across the campus network. the "insecurity through widespread adoption" argument that attributes windows viruses to widespread use makes about as little sense as the security through obscurity argument.even if you were figure that macs are only 3% of computers, and desktop linux is even less, if they were as insecure as windows there would still be enough of them to spread viruses just as well, because we all have windows using buddies on our networks and in our email contacts.
rimantasJul 22, 2008
By couple of decades you mean 7 years, right?
marx2kJul 22, 2008
bigbadboat: Fujitsu (my g/f's laptop, Japan), high-end Sony stuff (my MiniDisc recorder, Japan), Westone (USA, my headphones), Toshiba (Japan, my 65" TV), Aprilia (my scooter, Italy).. just to name a few.
marx2kJul 22, 2008
This is less about how I feel about people in other countries and more about the known issues that come out of countries that have no policies towards slave labor, child labor, quality control, source control, etc. I don't mind my products coming from Japan or Germany or Italy. However, getting products from China almost guarantees breakage or at the very least, incompetency in assembly. It's not a form of nationalism, but rather a regard for quality in purchased consumer goods.
bjornskiJul 22, 2008
Best Buy (HAHAH) Circuit City or other repair shops?Why? I don't need them. I won't let *ANYONE* fix my machine but me.And if you call their $40-$80 an hour a "service plan", you're daft. Geek Squad doesn't fix computers, they swap out hard drives and replace memory. That's about it. Oh yeah, and they'll run a virus scan for what, $60? Total rip-off.
macintoshreaderJul 26, 2008
Wow, you're really stupid.Can you please explain to me why there are 860 viruses for Linux when it only has 0.7% market share and there are 0 for OS X, even though it has 8.5%? The whole more market share: more vulnerabilities and malware argument is BULLs**t. It all depends on the architecture of the OS and the kernel. Windows has an outdated and crappy kernel, which is why there are more than 100,000 viruses out for it.n00b.