Zune had a decent debut last month, but Apple Computer’s iPods continued to dominate the MP3 market, according to data from market research firm NPD Group released last week.
Including both flash memory and hard disk drive players, Microsoft came in fourth, with 1.9 percent of the market.
SanDisk was No. 2 with 18.4 percent of the overall market, up from 17.5 percent last year.
Uh-huh. Reality check.
#12 That’s because Apple (computer) really has two product lines:
Laptops and Workstations.
The mac mini and the iMac are, really laptops in disguise. And the MacPro is too much for the ordinary user. The mini is just too underpowered and the iMac, although at first glance looks cool, is in fact a dead end. The only upgrade possible after 3 years (normal obsolescence period) is a mobo/CPU swap, and those won’t come cheap. Let’s face it, if you buy a PC-in-a-monitor, you get a monitor that lasts much longer than the PC.
#17 My thoughts exactly…
21 Let’s face it, if you buy a PC-in-a-monitor, you get a monitor that lasts much longer than the PC.
Thats where I’m at with my G5 iMac… but I knew that going in.
Love the 20″ screen, but wish there were more upgrades available than just a dual-layer DVD burner.
I had hoped the user-replaceable parts of the early models – like mine – would increase the upgrade potential. But with the hardware changing every 6-months, a critical mass of a given configuration can’t be reached. The pool of potential upgraders is too fractured to be lucrative to 3rd parties.
I hate to rub it in… but that’s why I changed from Mac to PC in the first place.
I’m the proud owner of three dead ends… an original LC, a Power Mac 7200 and a 500mhz iBook. Never again.
Joao:
The LC was introduced in 1991. What 1991 PC are you still using?
The 7200 was released in 1995. Tell me all about the important work you’re getting done with your 60 mHz Pentium 1.
The 500 mHz ibook came out in 2001. I’ll stipulate you might still be using a 700 mHz Celeron but I doubt you’d be bragging about it on a computer forum.
My first Mac was a Performa, the equvalent of an LCII, in 1992. I bought a 7300 in 1998 and gave the Performa to a niece at college, who used it for an additional year and a half. I downgraded the 7300 to secondary status in 2003 when I got one of the first Power Mac G5s, but the 7300 remained hooked up to the home network for two more years as the “upstairs computer,” for quick access to the Net and for screening CDs for my website. In just over 14 years I’ve had three Macs. I don’t know any serious computer users who got by with that few new PCs in a similar period of time. Most PC enthusiasts I know laugh at people who try to upgrade old PCs to run major releases of Windows — they recommend buying a new box with the new version preinstalled. In the time period you are describing, we’ve had Windows 3.1, 95, 98, Millenium and XP. That’s five computers right there, and Vista makes six.
Your remarks about Mac obsolescence are clearly off base in that light. PS: I fully expect to get several more years out of the G5, Intel transition or not.