After a Decade, Mac Sales Again Top 10% 410
GMGruman writes "The last time Apple's Mac sales accounted for more than 10 percent of the U.S. PC market was 1991. This spring, Apple finally returned to that market share high, with 10.7 percent of all U.S. PC sales, according to both IDC and Gartner. That's a major reversal from its 2004 share of under 2 percent. The sales report comes after some other good news this week for Apple: A third of big businesses now let employees choose a Mac as their PC — and more than half choose the Mac."
Re:When you don't have as much, buy for durability (Score:5, Interesting)
I know its purely anecdotal but I have Apple computers that are PowerPCs and they are still running well without problems. I have several first generation Intel models and I haven't had a problem. During that same period, I've had 1 dead Sony laptop, 3 dead Dell Desktops, and 2 operational but basically worthless Dell laptops due to their cases breaking at key mechanical points (eg hinges, latches, keyboard).
I also haven't had any problems with last year's model of the iMac 27 i7 or the previous year iMac 24 core2 duo. We pretty much went all Mac for all new purchases because of the great experience we have with Apple computers and their excellent customer support. Apple sent us a notice last year to come by the store and fix one of our white macbook chasis for free because they considered some cracking to be a manufacturing defect. I have 2 completely broken Dell laptops that are around the same age, so we didn't consider a crack on a macbook to be that big of a deal.
Re:When you don't have as much, buy for durability (Score:4, Interesting)
I know its purely anecdotal but I have Apple computers that are PowerPCs and they are still running well without problems. I have several first generation Intel models and I haven't had a problem. During that same period, I've had 1 dead Sony laptop, 3 dead Dell Desktops, and 2 operational but basically worthless Dell laptops due to their cases breaking at key mechanical points (eg hinges, latches, keyboard).
I'm the main tech support for my extended family who all used Windows computers. Pretty much every weekend I was cleaning up one computer or another, fixing both hardware and software issues.
I finally got fed up with it and convinced each one to convert over to Mac as their computers died out. Now they all run Macs and I rarely have to do anything. It's pure heaven!
Yes, the Macs do have the occasional issue but they are much easier to use and they rarely break down. Even when they do break down it usually a quick fix and the machine is back in action.
I'm sure that there are plenty of Windows users out there who have very few problems with their machines but for the ordinary person a Windows machine can be very fragile.