appleinsider.com - 2/16/2009
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PC sales are in free fall as the weak demand for Windows desktops and full-size notebooks in a poorly performing global economy is being compounded by an influx of low cost netbooks, which are gobbling up the remains of profitability in the PC industry.
appleinsider.com - 2/19/2009
ifoapplestore.com - 2/12/2009
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ifoapplestore.com —
On the heels of an iPhone/iPod display table
make-over, Apple plans to entirely reorganize and refocus space
within the stores to emphasize customer education, and software over hardware. The change would be the third major interior design for the ...
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Apple Plans Major Store Space Reorganization
apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com - 2/18/2009
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January was a slow month for Apple (
AAPL ) — even slower than Wall Street thought
it was going to be. Mac unit sales were down 6% compared with last January, according to NPD data released Tuesday. iPod sales fared even worse, down 14% year ...
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Report: Mac sales off 6% in January; iPod off 14%
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Netbooks killing Windows faster than expected
Open Source —
... Apple fans are crowing that Macs are resisting this downward pressure. One reason might be the MacBook Air, which offers the light weight of a Netbook, along with a full-size keyboard and large screen. ...
Cheap netbooks gobbling up remaining scraps of profitability in Windows PC industry
MacDailyNews —
... hand, Apple posted its best quarterly results ever, with 9% growth in its Mac sales over the previous year," McLean reports. "In large measure, Apple is sidestepping the fate of other PC makers because it sells machines differentiated by Mac OS X Leopard. While other PC makers are all diving to the bottom of the barrel to offer the cheapest Windows PCs at unsustainable prices, Apple is selling a product with unique value that isn't available elsewhere." Full article - recommended - here . MacDailyNews Take: Nearly every customer to whom the witless PC assemblers peddle a ...
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TechBlog —
... - The pre-alpha was DOA, thanks to memory issues. • Netbooks killing off sickly Windows PC sales - Are netbooks cannibalizing bigger PCs? Also ...
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One Day Only - Dell Mini 9 For $199 —
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP
Here in the US we are celebrating President day which is a national holiday for most, but not all workers. This AM I received an alert from Dell for a one day special for their Dell Mini 9 netbook computer system for only $199.
This system comes with Unbuntu, 512 MB Ram and only a 4GB SSD ...