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In article <30E9DC8C.5787@mts.se>, Martin Nisshagen  <martin@mts.se> wrote:
>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Another interpretation of that fact could be that Macs gets outdated faster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.

Plenty of Mac upgrades exist, from things like complete logic board 
replacements down to PPC upgrade cards and CPU-socket daughtercards. From 
third parties as well as Apple. To imply otherwise would be to 
demonstrate ignorance or deliberate misinformation.

The 601 upgrade card which goes in any Quadra was but one example which I
used for a year or so before I sold my machine and got a new one. The 
classic "midlife kicker".

I expect this picture to improve even more as CHRP/PPP makers get the 
ball rolling, many of them will be using low-cost baby-AT enclosures and 
motherboards to match.

A case can be made for the typical AT-compatible's extreme modular 
design (very little on the MB), although this gets a little cloudier when 
you run out of high performance slots (not too many 8-slot PCI machines 
out there). A lot of the cost reduced PC designs that are popping up for 
1996 are swinging back towards a Quadra-ish design with an integrated 
frame buffer/accelerator (or UMA), ethernet, disk controller, etc on the 
MB, so the hapless user isn't slot starved on Day 1...

Rob Barris
Quicksilver Software Inc.
rbarris@quicksilver.com
* Opinions expressed not necessarily those of my employer *