RSSApple 4th in Retail Notebook Sales
By the Betanews Staff | Published June 25, 2007, 4:32 PM
Apple's share of the retail notebook marked jumped to 14.3 percent in May from 12.5 the month before, as the company placed fourth in a list compiled by NPD Group. Apple now trails only HP, Toshiba and Gateway, although Dell is not included in retail sales counts.
According to NPD, sales of Windows based laptops increased 37 percent, while Apple say growth of 65 percent when compared with a year ago. Aiding the company is Apple's growing exposure in the marketplace due to the iPod and upcoming iPhone, as well as positive reception of its new Intel based Macs, which are now in their third revision and offer a new LED backlit display that increases battery life.
This site is biased. Every little positive news on Apple is posted here. I wouldn't be surprise if this is own by Apple.
Don't believe it, just do a search on Apple and Microsoft and compare.
And one more thing, they need to hire some proof reader. The articles posted recently were full of typos and errors.
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|...the pot says to the kettle.
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|Let me point out that calling BetaNews biased about Apple vs. Windows is TRUE! But that isn’t any different from CNet also; the underdogs always win. And in a world dominated by Microsoft what do you expect?! On a more personal note I got a Mac Mini three months ago and that's all I use now. I still have my PC for certain things but Mac OS X is just a thing of beauty once you get the hang of it. Please visit you nearest Mac retailer today and see the difference for yourself. ;-)
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|www.farmetacalissedeyeul.com
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|Leave it to betabias ... I mean Betanews to inflate news about Apple having a positive growth while putting negative spin on Vista having the lowest patch count of all OS's ... only beta news ...
Do you guys enjoy doing this on your almighty apple laptops?
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|Yes!
--->Do you guys enjoy doing this on your almighty apple laptops?
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|Gawdamit, the article didn't say what I wanted it to say. It must be biased!!!
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|Apple has Intel and Bootcamp to thank for that. Not the ipod, iphone, LED backlit display or increase battery life.
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|Actually, in my instance, the ability to buy a new laptop without having Windows Vista installed on it drove the sale. I had purchased a new Acer and it crashed twice in three days running Vista. It was returned and an Apple MacBook was the ideal purchase *in my case*. Bootcamp allows me to run a minimal install of XP to run the one program I still need Windows for. As soon as Garmin gets their Mac compatible release of Mapsource out, the XP partition disappears.
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|Most people that buy a Apple Laptops now buy it because they can run both OS X and Windows and get the best of both worlds.
I myself am 100% Linux and for programs only available for Windows I use Wine. Since OS X is build around Unix you can use Wine to get Mapsource to work. Just a suggestion, if that works you can get rid of your Windows partition even faster:-)
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|you do know that Acer is not in the top 4, for a reason, right?
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|I find your comments to be extremely comical in nature. If anyone were to believe what you have implied, they and you are truely better off on a Mac.
To go into the numerous reasons why a computer crashes, would cause numbness in my wrists and arms from typing so much. I am sure that the Acer - right out of the box - worked fine. It was only after you did something that it crashed. If that is all you have to offer, then .... OK!
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|Your comments are the comical ones. It was directly out of the box. I was transferring my documents over from the previous Acer via pen drive and the ATI video drivers quit working. After a full system restore, I got the documents moved and the DVD drivers quit working while trying to install my Mapsource software. If you do a quick search on the Mats***a DVD drive and Vista, you'd find there are numerous documented failures of these exact drivers in both XP and Vista. Don't jump to conclusions. The fall may leave a mark.
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|it then would be the manufacturers of those devices and not necessarily that of Vista or XP. Look again at the makers of the drivers! It is not MS.
even if, again, even if they were, you would update the drivers. bad drivers are made every day. Acer should have done a better job at picking a video or DVD drive that would be compatible with those systems. and the fact that XP has been out for how long?
If you wish to sound intelligent, be intelligent.
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|Gotta give Apple a point there. At least they don't seem to use crappy manufactorers with almost-indecent names.
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|GS5, I had the impression that WINE is not working yet on the MacOS X, and I get the feeling from their website that pretty much all development has been scrapped. Pity, because I had been waiting for Wine for a long time to arrive to OS X.
Do you know that it works? On PPC and Intel?
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|Wine on Mac is still alive and kicking. More apps are running every day.
1. There is www.codeweavers.com\'s Crossover, which is a streamlined, well-packaged distribution of Wine for Linux and MacOSX. Cost: $60.
2. Wine proper for OSX is free. Maybe you have been looking at the wrong places on the web. The Darwine project (at opendarwin) is virtually dead, because, recently (partly thru CodeWeavers' efforts), for OSX these sources are now again up to par with the main Wine development scene (meaning that Darwine has re-merged with the Wine development efforts). There is winehq.com, from which you can download the Wine sources. Advantage: more recent version (today 0.9.40, which is mucho more recent than the version CodeWeavers is based on). Disadvantages: building Wine from source is not for the faint of heart; there is still a bug in the OSX version of X11. I expect in a few months, ready-built and well-finished .dmg distro's for Wine will be available (e.g., as on http://mike.kronenberg.org/mike/)
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