“Credit Suisse First Boston research analyst Robert Semple maintained a ‘marketweight’ rating on the PC hardware sector after October results from market researcher NPD revealed ‘elastic’ consumer demand driven by aggressive pricing. ‘Within the PC market, we continue to prefer the profitable share gainers with compelling product cycles, with Apple Computer as our top pick,’ said Semple,” Maya Roney reports for Forbes. “Capitalizing on its strong position in retail, Hewlett-Packard grew its units a combined 25% year over year and maintained share for the first time in several months. Meanwhile, Apple saw its unit growth slow to 23%, but it has still delivered over 50% unit growth year to date.”
Roney reports, “The analyst has ‘outperform’ ratings on Apple, Sony, and Toshiba. He has a ‘neutral’ rating on Hewlett-Packard.”
Full article here.
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Fish sticks for all.
Moo, you just didn’t want to say first post did you?
Fish sticks look like a “1” and they taste like poster board. I just want to be loved.
I like Suisse cheese.
Duh! Easy to use, secure, virus free. What more could you ask for?
To be first in the PC manufacturer ORDER is good for Apple. Even better is that they get to “double dip” on buying seasons because they get a lucrative Christmas season with the iPod, and a lucrative Back to School season with the iBooks/iMacs.
If the Intel iBooks rumors are to be believed, this will be great because it will give Apple 9 months of Intel sales for 2006 and perhaps by Q1’07 (this time next year) they can boast a full x86 lineup.
eric
Absolutely correct …. now how do we get the word out to the clueless ???
And…. at the risk of ruffling some feathers …
Where is Sputnik’s comment on this ??
We use Macs at the Pentagon.
Is it even possible to get the word out to the clueless? Is that like teaching whales how to fly?
It would be too ironic if my MW was “duh”.
As it is, it’s just “off”
“CSFB: Apple Computer is ‘top pick’ in personal computer market”
Those Swiss Creditors are a bunch fsking genius!
theloniousMac, what ring?
Having walked those halls a bit in the last few years, including with various ASDs, I haven’t seen a Mac in the building in over 5 years. That’s not to say they don’t exist. Certainly I have not even been in 20% of that building, but I just have not seen any Macs there in over 5 years.
I know the Army a while back decreed that several of their servers needed to transition to Macs because they were more secure (web servers which could not be hacked into as easily), but I’ve yet to actually see them.
I hear the FBI uses them, but what do I know?
I haven’t seen a post by Sputnik in years, his machine must have exploded from all the virus/spyware.
Sputnik put in an appearance a week or so back. But he isn’t what he used to be!
Well it won’t help to know if there ARE Macs in the Pentagon but every UK produced drama about MI5 and related have rafts of iMacs on show – all sporting an iSight! In fact the Beeb got into trouble recently for advertising Macs.
So. Where perception goes..reality soon follows.