Apple's Macs make a comeback

Two-thirds of PCs that cost more than $1,000 that were sold in the U.S. so far this year were Macs:

Apple’s share of the $1,000-plus retail market was less than 18% in January 2006 according to NPD. By September 2007, it had grown to more than 57%. And in the first quarter of 2008 it hit a record 66%.

Check out the Fortune blog here.

This is clearly the result of Apple's Mac OS X success, a great marketing campaign and Microsoft's abysmal Windows Vista.

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I preferred Windows based computers over a Macs, Just because it was what I learned on and was comfortable with. Saying that, Microsoft made 2 big errors. The first was Windows Millinum and the second was Windows Vista. Computer companies forcing new computer owners to have no chioce but have Vista installed is a bad idea. If you buy a Dell and it came preloaded with vista, Dont try and wipe it and install XP. Dell and i'm sure many other computer companies dropped all support for XP. This is a big mistake as Mac's 66% of the market shows that consumers are not going to be bullied into a piece of crap like Vista.

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Anonymous Reader on 19/05/08, 7:40:28 PM ADT

This may be surprising to some but the guys I work with have Vista installed on their MacBook Pros. The MacBook line is just simply better hardware than the products released by Dell, et al. For a lot of people OSX is not the driver.

I love Apple hardware but there is a lot of irrational fanboism. For example Engadget has a story about a line forming at Apple's flagship Manhatten store and "reports that the group is more than 60-deep, though most people seem confused about what they're waiting for."

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/05/22/iphone-line-forms-at-apples-flagship-for-absolutely-no-reason/

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Anonymous Reader on 24/05/08, 10:32:36 PM ADT

Wow.

Installing Vista on MacBook Pros rather than running OS X is like buying a BMW and replacing the engine, brakes and steering wheel with LADA parts.

Yuck.

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