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Apple updates desktop range
4 March 2009
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Mac users won’t get the 17 USB ports they really wanted. Fake photo from Boing Boing.
Its not the best time to be making desktop PCs. Research firm Gartner this week speculated that growth in desktop PC shipments will fall 31.9 percent. Laptops look to fair better, but not by much. The gloomy outlook hasn’t stopped Apple making some under the hood and cosmetic changes to its desktop range this week. Revenue from their desktops made up less than a third of total Mac revenue in the final quarter of last year, with shipments falling 25 percent as notebooks rose 34 percent. I spoke with technology journalist Danny Gorog about the latest announcement and also what we can expect from the new Safari 4 web browser. Use the MP3 link above to listen.
