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Posted Thursday 19th July 2007 14:42 GMT
Eric Van Haesendonck

Maybe a backlash against Vista...

I thinks that some of the increased sales from Apple could very well be linked to some customers not wanting to put up with Vista.

If you will have to learn a new interface and put up with driver an application compatibility issues anyway, why not switch to a Mac?

Also if the linux based Asus EEE PC 701 is successfull (and I think it will, unless Asus underestimate demand so much that we have a prolonged "Wii shortage situation") we may have more OS variety in the near future. Also this will probably grow the market share of Asus (in unit numbers) since they will probably be selling a lot of cheap units.

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