Comments on: Apple cleaning up in $1,000-plus retail market

NPD reports that Apple controls two-thirds of the U.S. retail market for personal computers that cost more than $1,000.

[VEWenneker]

Quality does cost money but you should also look at this month's issue on "Computer's" in CONSUMER REPORT'S. Lower quality and initial lower price wind up costing you more due to more frequent repair's and part's. I am on my 4th MAC...after owning two very dissapointing PC's. I am a Happy Camper. Never once have I had a MAC repair problem. Simply: Food for thought.

[technewsjunkie]

And the HIGHEST SATISFACTION RATE among users.

Meanwhile XP3 Service pack corrupts Registry and Vista is "downgraded" by popular demand to XP.

[Seaspray0]

"These numbers don't include an awful lot of sales--such as corporate PCs that account for about half the market, and online-heavy sellers such as Dell--but tend to illustrate trends in the U.S. PC market over time."

So, what would it actually be if you included them? Can you give us a realistic number that represents reality versus one that excludes half the market?

[Seaspray0]

After reading the other comments, which are similar to mine, I have a comment for Tom Krazit. Tom, STOP with the biased one sided reporting. If it's not blasting outlook based on "expert" comments from what? A guy who runs a website and a 2 year old article... to this article which excludes a large percentage of laptops. Your biased apple fanboyism and mocrosoft hate is verging on extreme. If you can't keep it in check, I WILL work hard and dilligently to organize an effort to have you removed from the ranks of CNET. If you are going to praise one and criticize the other, you better do it with something other than the one sided garbage you've been using. I can dredge up just as much one sided garbage (i.e. studies done by microsoft showing microsoft is best) but it doesn't belong here. If you can't stop with the BS, then neither do you.

[LeChiffre]

Respect to Seaspray0
This is a very misrepresented statistic, it does not belong here. the writter clearly had nothing to write about.

[eldernorm]

Ahhh, I love Microsoft fanboys. They are usually the first to cry Apple fanboy. :-)

If you want cheap, buy cheap and live with what you get.
If you need to buy what the majority buys, great.... buy what the other lemmings buy.
As a user of both a pc and a Mac I find the Mac much easier to support and to use. Period.

The company supplies and requires I use a pc. Their IT is always busy fixing things. I support the Mac. Its easy when it does not break or lock up etc. :-)

So, buy what you like and enjoy it. But if you need to downgrade Apple products and users to feel better about what you are doing, well, I do feel sorry for you.

Just a thought.

en

[Rawnchie14]

Just shows that people who like to pay more money for the same machine, just so they don't have to use their head anymore with a "Computer thinks for me!" mentality, are clearly people who also like to completely waste money.

This is a scary statisitic indeed, its showing that the human populous is showing more and more technical stupidity as time goes on. It used to be good technology experts making devices for tech savy consumers. Now it's technical masters making devices for morons. Great.

[K3ND00D]

You MAC users are retarded. Look. I grew up using Commodores and Apples. My first home computers were VIC-20, C-64 and then an Apple IIGS. My experience, the machines from MAC cost too much for what you get, they do not have the flexibility in available hardware, software (especially games), and configurations. If you think Apple's high prices means you are getting a Ferrari, guess again. The total stability and so easy to use a worm could use it has been proven to be bull by those of us who have used Apple hardware and OSes and fled. I have news for you, I have (as an example) a WinAMD PC at home right now that I built and has been unchanged and had no problems and operforms GREAT and it is at least 3 years old. I don't have to upgrade anything every 2 months as you MAC fanbois like to claim, I don't have my machine hacked or destroyed by anything from MS or malware. And when it comes to malware (virii, worms, ad/spyware) MAC is just as susceptable, it simply has not been targetted because it is a small audience for those seeking large impact! Get a clue!

Now, seeing as the newer versions of MAC OS are based on BSD (wow, MACs were so great that they abandoned their OS and took some open source OS and made some tweaks, impressive!), and see as the newer versions of the MAC hardware are now Intel rather than Motorola (again Apple abandoned its oh so great Motorola and moved toward being more like a Windows machine)...what exactly makes MACs so special? The only thing that does is the restrictions/lockdown on what hardware is "allowed" to be used...this means no competition in the consumer marketplace to be the hardware used for a MAC machine and thus you have higher prices. Thus the higher prices do not directly equate to quality. What you see is quality is not truly. It is lack of flexibility and knowing exactly what limited hardware you have to make your OS work with. Thus, as already explained higher prices.

I value the flexibility of my non-MAC machines. Of course now that MACs are what they are, they can run MAC OS, any other BSD, Linuxes, Solaris or Windows. Ultimately, MACs are now only different from other PCs due to what OS variant they come with and the locked down and specific hardware in the box. It would be like only 1 company making machines that run Windows (such as IBM (in the past) or if only Lenovo made Windows laptop PCs). Their prices would be higher due to lack of competition in the cunsumer marketplace.

MAC users, why not just build your machine and put Open BSD on it?

[K3ND00D]

No MAC mouthpieces want to argue with me? Come on, I wanted so much to tell you some more how you've wasted your money. Get a prebuilt or build a PC to the exact specs you want and put Windows, Open BSD, Open Solaris, or a Linux variant on it and have fun...or waste your money for a machine whose OS is so picky it requires a certain set of hardware in it and has next to NOTHING in the way of games and maybe 2% overall of the number of programs available for the user. Have a blast MAC fanboi yuppie wannabe losers. Hahaha

The person who said get a Windows machine and be like everyone else (in a duragatory manner) is insane. MAC has how many models? How many variations can you get? You are all clones! I can build whatever configuration of a PC I want and throw Windows XP, Vista or one of many Linux OSes on it and laugh at you MAC idiots all day long!