“Apple continues to broaden its grip on European education computer sales, [according to] Gartner,” Andy Space reports for 9 to 5 Mac.
“According to the statistics for the second calendar quarter of 2008, Apple remains the number one PC manufacturer in the education segment across Europe, a position its held for eight successive quarters. In fact, Apple sold 19.2% of all CPU’s sold in the sector – including servers,” Space reports.
“The situation is very similar in the US, where Apple surpassed Dell as the number one supplier of portables to US higher education for 2007,” Space reports.
More details in the full article here.
Get them while their young, before they are brainwashed by the M$ junkola
You cannot hope to create a technocratic society with half-baked, beg, stolen or borrowed technology!
Fill their little spongey brains with pure Apple goodness.
Indoctrinate them into the Cult of Mac.
That’s just great. What are these kids going to do with a MAC? Steal music and put it on a second rate Zune? Kids across Europe will not be trained on how to spell-check a cover-your-ass e-mail in Outlook or make a “Your mother doesn’t work here, clean up after yourself” sign in PowerPoint with that href=”
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Think of the children.
Your potential. Our passion.™
Zune Tang was a student of Microsoft Bob!
More importantly, finally Gatrner have broken out a UK market share figure for Apple. 4.3%. Lower than I was thinking, but apparently Apple’s sales rocketed 40% at a time when the rest of the UK market contracted. So it must be around 50% higher than whatever the figure was last year
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@Zune Tang®
Let me help you with that. It should’ve been:
That “ergonomic” MS keyboard was a bit too much for ya?