Apple Now Selling Better Than One Laptop In Six

Lucas123 writes "Apple's share of the laptop market has grown over the past few years and the company is now beating Gateway in sales, according research firm NPD Group Inc. in Port Washington, NY. 'Their sales are continuing to grow faster than the rest of the marketplace,' the firm stated. In June Apple was responsible for 17.6% of laptops sold (at retail) in the US and is now in third place behind HP and Toshiba."

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Re:College kids

[kkwst2]

My Thinkpad barely made it through 2 years,

If anything, I suspect that's much more of a comment on you than your Thinkpad. The Thinkpads of 6 years ago were far superior to the iBook. I think even most Mac fans would agree.

You can at least make an argument about MacBook Pros, but I still disagree. The MacBook is designed to be thin and stylish and excels in both categories. However, the Thinkpad is designed to be a workhorse. They're both nice. The ThinkPad has certainly cut some corners after Lenovo took over, but it's still a very solid machine and has multiple distinct advantages over the Mac.

From a productivity standpoint, it's just stupid to get a MacBook over a Thinkpad if you're primarily using Windows. You have to use an external mouse, since the single button thing just doesn't cut it. And the keyboard shortcuts don't map perfectly. Meanwhile the Thinkpad still has the best mobile pointing device ever invented. I challenge you to spend two months using the Trackpoint device and go back to using a touch pad. You won't be able to.

The Thinkpads offer much higher screen resolutions, allowing anyone doing serious graphical work (graphic designers, CAD, CFD, etc.) a huge advantage. I just don't get how anyone doing anything graphical would find the 15" Macbook Pro resolution acceptable. This always surprised me.

Perhaps the MacBook Pro is best for you, but I believe from a productivity standpoint most people primarily running Windows you be much better served with a Thinkpad.

Re:Computers should last for more than a year.

[dedazo]

It's sad that you would think a year is something to brag about.

That's an interesting assertion. Let's see, I have here an old Dell Inspiron 2500 which has had the same install of Windows 2000 (or "Winblows", that's hilarious) for almost eight years. My PC at work has had the same XP install going on three years now, and the one PC at home that doesn't have Vista installed has had XP for close to five years. None of them has any problems whatsoever, probably because I take care of them by not installing every crap program I find on the interwebs. I don't reinstall "Winblows" every year, and neither do most people.

Having worked retail repair within the last three years

Oh, so you you fix PCs used by stupid people. I guess it's OK if you generalize that to everyone.

I can safely say you are a liar.

Oooh, I guess I must be lying, too.

Vista is no better

Oh, your journal. A lot of people are familiar with it, now.

So let me ask you something twitter. You claim to "advocate" free software, here on Slashdot. I guess elsewhere. What possible value did the free software movement just realize from your infantile ad hominem and exaggeration-for-mod-points post here?