The Mac and PC markets have completely bifurcated - PC's and Windows rule the low end, while Apple equally rules the high end. ComputerWorld Reports:

Today NPD came out with some pretty astounding data. Of the computers costing $1000 or more, Macs accounted for a whopping 91% of the money spent.

This puts Apple's Macs in a different world than Windows PC's. At the $1000 price point, you go from a 90+% Windows dominated world to the the exact opposite, bizzaro landscape where Apple dominates in the exact same way.

That's why I'll go to an event, and see virtually no PCs, while at the same time, most of the IT shops I visit are PC-centric. This can't be a happy place for Microsoft to live, either: the low end is where Google is coming out to play. The next few years should be interesting.

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