Why The U.S. PC Market is On The Decline

conq writes "BusinessWeek reports on the recent woes of Apple and Dell. One possible reason according to the article: 'imminent price wars'." From the article: "'There's a softness in the market that's building,' says Richard Shim, a senior research analyst at IDC. In the past two weeks, IDC cut its 2006 forecast for U.S. PC growth to 5.7%, from 6.8%. 'In '04 and '05 there was tremendous growth. In a market that's as mature as this industry is, there's no way you can maintain those levels.'"

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Re:Old PCs Still Good and Net same speed

[WillAffleckUW]

The difference between the two systems when surfing the web is like night and day

Again, my son had an iMac. Built in firewire and full Net. plugged directly into the cable modem out port.

Switching to the Mac mini - same basic firewire, same cable modem.

No perceptible difference.

It's not a PC. PCs care about that stuff. Macs just work.