US Mac sales grow 9.6% in Q1 2011 as rest of market drops 10.7%

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I've seen data on student suggesting that 90% of the laptops on certain campuses are OSX, a complete inversion from 10 years ago. This was coupled with an increase in computer ownership by students moving up to 100%.

Not to say that this isn't true at other universities, but where I am going to school that is certainly not the case. Some campuses are forcing their students to buy macs, but overall I only know of 4 people that own Macs on campus. This includes Computer Science majors and non-Computer Science majors.

If we include iPhones however...

I may have misremembered the data. The closet I've been able to uncover is student usage in UVa from 1997 to 2009.

http://itc.virginia.edu/students/inventory/compare/

While laptop ownership is near universal; the OS distribution is trending strongly towards OSX but with only about 45% in 2009.

Acer's shipments really fell 42% year-over-year? No wonder their CEO was forced out...

The netbook as we know it would seem to be dead.

The netbook as we knew it...

That makes me sad, because netbooks are the perfect form factor for me.

Just walk into http://www.generalassemb.ly/ . At any given time you would be hard pressed to find a non-Apple laptop.

Where the nerd goes - the herd follows.

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