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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Martin Nisshagen
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 01:31
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Robert A. Decker wrote:

> > That is why Macintosh has less than 3% of the market share.

>   Wow, another brain-dead lemming! Mac sells between 7 and 13% of all
> computers (they are usually around 9%) and are around 35% of all used

I think it's historically around 11% in average (but I might be wrong).

> computers. The reason that they sell 10% of computers, but are 35% of all
> used computers is because they last so damn long!

Another interpretation of that fact could be that Macs gets outdated faster
and needs to be replaced with totally new Macs, instead of being able to be
upgraded like the more flexible PCs.

m a r t i n  n

-- 
Martin Nisshagen
MTS Technology, Sweden
martin@mts.se (MIME 1.0)
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 02:31:56 +0100
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