
Originally Posted by
lilDeath
Oh, there are PC WARS alright, it is just not in the public sector, i.e. where we are.
The big corporate / commercial / industrial sector is where you see the PC Wars quite clearly.
DELL / HP / IBM are forever fighting the PC WAR for the biggest piece of the pie, i.e market share. Last report I saw was DELL had the edge with the bigger market share. HP was a close second, but catching up. (I stand to be corrected, it might be the other way around)
The problem with these PC wars though, is that they cannot fight each other with the components, since they are all getting it from the same people - Intel, AMD, NVidia, ATI, Samsung, LG, etc.
So, where they are competing is on a whole different level - form factor, ease of use / usability, sales, support and then the bleeding edge tech, of which the Green initiative is very strong atm.
^ This, I consider to be the REAL PC wars.
The mac vs pc is something else, it's like all the above vs the mac.
It is very much the same with the MS vs Open Source war, not just Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu, etc. but all of them.