Gartner: U.S. Mac Sales Market Share Nearing 10%

[macintoshtoffy]

Yes, exactly the same crappy components that you find in MacBooks, Imacs and Mac Pros.

Way to go cutting the sentence. A person buys a computer, not hardware - a computer is made up of software and hardware. There is no difference between a HP and a Dell; same operating system, same crapware, same shoddy service etc.

 

[montycat]

Four people I know switched to Macs in the past month. They are all very pleased with the OS X platform.😀

 

[DMann]

Four people I know switched to Macs in the past month. They are all very pleased with the OS X platform.😀

Same could be said for an entire law firm in Manhattan, which made the switch last month.

 

[gnasher729]

How come no one releases those figures... I'm guessing as an estimate based on empirical evidence that Macs last a bit longer than PCs (and have higher resale value), that installed base should be rising at a higher rate than market share, non?

It's at least very important to us software developers (helps to determine potential user base).

You also need the average purchase price. How much software do you think gets sold for every $299 netbook, and how much is sold per $2000 MacBook Pro? I bet you can sell more to 100,000 potential customers with MBPs than to a million potential customers with netbooks.

 

[MorphingDragon]

You also need the average purchase price. How much software do you think gets sold for every $299 netbook, and how much is sold per $2000 MacBook Pro? I bet you can sell more to 100,000 potential customers with MBPs than to a million potential customers with netbooks.

Id assume that those netbooks are also subsidised by all the crapware aswell.

 

[alent1234]

Id assume that those netbooks are also subsidised by all the crapware aswell.

bought someone a $299 laptop as a gift a week ago. shockingly there was no crapware on it. just the best buy software installer which seems to act nicely and doesn't bother people and a 30 day sub of Norton security.

not like the old days when dell would sell a laptop with 10 different security programs all with trial versions. same with my lenovo from work, no crapware

i'm looking at a Mac Mini for myself in a month or so or maybe an iMac when the refresh comes. but at this point i don't see any value in apple's computers beyond a Mac Mini. too expensive for what you get and the Genius bar changes don't make me feel better. my new Lenovo is a core i5 and even the intel graphics chip is decent at the older games i play. and the core i5 screams. no way i'd pay all that money for a C2D CPU computer unless it was something cheap like a Mini

 

[MorphingDragon]

bought someone a $299 laptop as a gift a week ago. shockingly there was no crapware on it. just the best buy software installer which seems to act nicely and doesn't bother people and a 30 day sub of Norton security.

not like the old days when dell would sell a laptop with 10 different security programs all with trial versions. same with my lenovo from work, no crapware

i'm looking at a Mac Mini for myself in a month or so or maybe an iMac when the refresh comes. but at this point i don't see any value in apple's computers beyond a Mac Mini. too expensive for what you get and the Genius bar changes don't make me feel better. my new Lenovo is a core i5 and even the intel graphics chip is decent at the older games i play. and the core i5 screams. no way i'd pay all that money for a C2D CPU computer unless it was something cheap like a Mini

Man, I should really buy my computers form somewhere else. 🙄

All my hostel friends have asked me to wipe windows form their drive because all the crapware was slowing them down.

Acer... Acer is the worst offender.

 

[macintoshtoffy]

Man, I should really buy my computers form somewhere else. 🙄

All my hostel friends have asked me to wipe windows form their drive because all the crapware was slowing them down.

Acer... Acer is the worst offender.

The one thing I can't get over with Acer is their propensity to have their hard disks die first or have corrupt sectors (thus require me to run a low level formatter from the hard disk vendor) - once you uninstall all the crap it isn't so bad but the big weigh up is you either pay more and have less crapware or you pay less and have more crapware. If you're a non-Windows user then you're never going to worry about that because you'll replace the OS immediately but from a Windows users point I guess one can weigh up say 1 - 1 1/2 hours uninstalling being worth saving a couple of hundred dollars.