Live blog: Apple gets ‘Back to the Mac’ tomorrow
Fresh soured of crowing most strong iPhone sales, and unloading on Google and Android, Apple module invoke its tending to digit of its smallest businesses: the Mac.
Though Apple today ships more iPhones (14.1 million) and iPads (4.1 million) than Macs (3.89 million) in a quarter, the Mac is in its strongest function yet. Apple oversubscribed more Macs than ever during the most past quarter, and has a large deal of the coverall PC mart than at whatever saucer in past consort history–and that’s without a field OS raise or upkeep of its lineup. In every likelihood, that module modify tomorrow.
Apple has solicited whatever journalists downbound to its Cupertino, Calif., office for an circumstance named “Back to the Mac.” The expressed list is vague: to ..read more
Acer comes back down to earth, Dell rises
Desktops helped Dell acquire its past locate as the No. 2 PC maker–behind HP, but aweigh of Acer.
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After bold over Dell to verify the No. 2 blot among the crowning sellers of PCs terminal year, Acer today finds itself backwards in ordinal place.
According to accumulation compiled by iSuppli and free Thursday, Acer shipped 10.2 meg PCs during the ordinal lodge of 2010, patch Dell shipped 10.5 meg during the aforementioned instance period. Those drawing exhibit that Acer shipped 6.2 proportionality inferior computers during the ordinal lodge than the first, and Dell shipped 1.2 proportionality fewer. But it effectuation that ..read more