Windows Vista 7 : Trust Me

It is remarkable that a lot of the geek pundits proclaiming the qualities of Windows7 were the same people who once announced that Vista was the cat's meow.

John Dvorak is to be praised for his objectivity. One blogger refers to the new product as Vista 7.0 (Written via XP).

Apple Bites Pie

I've heard that PC manufacturers are struggling - the economy is rough, nobody's going to buy a PC with Vista with Windows7 coming out in October for Christmas someday, Netbooks with XP are driving margins way down - but I had no idea how far it had gone.

Ars Technica reports that Apple has taken 91% of revenue sales of computers over $1000 in June.


From the article:

Based on NPD's data, the average sale price (ASP) of a Windows laptop was $520—$569 if netbooks are excluded. The ASP of a Mac laptop is $1,400. Similar trends hold for desktops as well—the ASP of a Windows-based desktop PC in June was $489, while the ASP for a Mac was $1,398.

Though Apple only holds about 8 to 9 percent of the US market share by units, its strategy of focusing on quality over quantity is paying off.