Apple Battling Acer For Third Spot in US Computer Shipments

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Cupertino (CA) - Research data from Gartner and IDC show Apple is battling Acer for the third spot in US computer system sales for the second quarter.

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[wymer100]

Missed it by THAT much. Gartner predicted 1.4 million units and it turns out Apple shipped 2.5million units in the last quarter for an increase in unit growth of 41%. Apple also shipped 11million iPods for 12% unit growth. Apple made $1 billion in profit on sales of $7.5 billion. Not a bad quarter indeed.

 

[smlong]

I can't believe people still buy this Apple garbage.

I priced their equipment a little over the weekend for the purpose of validating their post high cost/low-frills products.

Their products continue to be about DOUBLE the price of a far more POWERFUL machine. For the price of a Crapple w/ 80 gig hdd, 2 gigs of RAM, etc for $1800, I can get a comparable Dell/Hp w/ >3 gigs of RAM, 250 gig hdd, bluetooth, webcam, etc< for about $700. So, I can equip my entire household w/ laptops if I buy Dell/Hp rather than buying a single Crapple for myself.

People really are sheep.

 

[kman7607]

Yes, but your Dell/HP would not come with the ability to run OSX and/or Windows plus Apple's outstanding customer support. To some people that is worth the premium to others it seems ridiculous.

 

[smlong]

Actually, ANY PC has the ability to run OSX. This is true because Apple hardware is no different than a plain-Jane PC.

There is no way to justify Apple's prices.