From the Investor's Business Daily on 12/7, the latest ChangeWave consumer poll found that 29% of likely notebook and desktop PC buyers in the next 90 days are planning to get a Mac. That's higher than consumer purchase intent for HP laptops (21%), HP desktops (24%) and Dell laptops (28%). But Dell had higher demand for its desktops (31%).
More consumers are buying Macs because they're turned off by PCs using Microsoft's Windows operating system, Smith says. Complaints about the latest version of Windows, called Vista, and positive reviews for the new Apple Mac OS, called Leopard, have fueled Mac sales, he says.
Apple's U.S. market share was 6.9% in the third quarter, IDC says, up from 5.7% a year earlier. Mac sales are typically higher in the third quarter because of back-to-school and other education sales.
Its PC market share for all of 2006 was 4.7% in the U.S. and 2.5% worldwide, according to IDC.
So, do you plan to get a Mac soon?
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