Sales of Apple desktop computers fell 38 percent in November, according to retail research firm NPD.The figure compares to a 15 percent drop in U.S. sales of Windows desktop PCs and a 20 percent domestic cut for overall desktop sales during the past month.

Mac U.S. sales were flat in November, falling 1 percent as PC sales grew 2 percent, according to NPD. The numbers appear to reflect a consumer spending tightening and Apple’s reluctance to shift from premium prices.

While PC makers, such as HP and Dell, cut holiday prices by up to 50 percent, Apple introduced 5 percent to 10 percent discounts since December of 2007, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told the Wall Street Journal Tuesday.

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A good read i found at mac360

With one exceptional criticism, I’ve been uncharacteristically silent about this issue. Macs are not as good as they used to be.
I’ve been using a new HP Windows Vista PC for almost a month. Guess what? Vista isn’t so bad.
Heresy, you say? Maybe not. I don’t think Windows Vista is better than Mac OS X Leopard, or even Tiger. Once a product has been on the market for awhile, a reputation grows, not always reflective of reality.
Vista’s reputation is carried over from Windows XP, the Swiss cheese of desktop operating systems, with more security holes than the Bush Administration.
That reputation is one of a buggy piece of software which isn’t fully backwards compatible, full of glossy eye candy, and requiring some modern, capable hardware to make it run decently.
How does that reputation compare to Mac OS X Leopard, which is loved by the Microsoft-bashing media and described as God’s gift to computer users everywhere (those who can afford it).
To hear the media pundits tell it, OS X Leopard is ultra modern, ultra secure, never crashes, runs only the coolest apps, is easier to set up, easier to learn, easier to maintain.
My view of reality is much different. To be honest, Apple’s recent Intel Macs and OS X Leopard are the two buggiest products the company has unleashed on customers in over a decade.
I’ve gone through five Macs in less than two years, and all of them have caused me constant problems; bad displays, bad keyboards, bad motherboards, bad hard drives, bad OS.

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Apple Store in china is running Windows XP for its large display ?

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At my office, i had some HTML things to work with .It was about dropdown combo box with more than 1 visible items ( this means HTML Select tag with size more than 1 like <select name=”macphobia” size=”2″> ) I was playing around with the w3cschools’ tryit editor in different browsers . It was working fine with expected results in IE , Mozilla firefox in my office Windows XP machine but i did the same thing in Safari in Windows the result was not what expected. Safari was not showing the number of visible items in Dropdown to what i had defined the HTML select tag rather it was showing all the elements in the drop down options. This was weird and surprising to me . Below are different results of my tries . It seems that whatever the number of size you give as visible items Safari will always show 4 itmes . Continue reading »