| The whole world has gone Apple crazy: poll |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 25 April 2006 | |
  
In a new poll of iTWire readers taken over the past 24 hours, nearly two thirds of the 448 respondents (299) believe that being able to dual boot Windows will increase Macintosh market share compared with just one third (159) who believe it will not. Meanwhile, Apple is pressing home the advantage, with the recent announcement of a 17 inch MacIntel notebook called the MacBook Pro. A 15 inch model of the new notebook is already available and the 17 inch version will be available within a week. Many pundits are betting that the new Intel Macs will revitalise Apple’s previously flagging PC market share, which currently stands at about 4%. Some believe, that traditional PC vendors are now in serious danger of losing market share to Apple, as they cannot legally run the Mac OSX operating systems on their machines. Some desktop and notebook vendors are beginning to sell Intel Macs with preloaded with Windows XP. The coming quarter should prove an interesting one for Apple from a financial aspect, given that its fortunes rode last quarter almost exclusively on iPod growth.{moscomment} |
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