For years, Apple’s Macintosh computers, while far from the biggest sellers, have been riding high. They’ve managed to outperform a sinking Windows PC market in most quarters, even if modestly. Mac laptops are potent sellers in the lucrative over-$1,000 category. Macs are widely used in colleges and in the media. And one model, the MacBook Air, has been praised by some reviewers as the best laptop ever made.
Windows hardware makers — often stuck in a lower-price, lower-margin, lower-status rut — have long tried, without much success, to...
via The Verge