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What /is/ a PC? Apple passes HP in PC sales (Kinda, not really) Hop in to read more!

Started by Fisk, Jan 31 2012 11:23 PM

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#1 Fisk

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Posted 31 January 2012 - 11:23 PM

New data was released yesterday (Monday) that stated that 2011's Q4 PC sales leader was indeed Apple! Over HP and Dell, etc., you ask? Well... Kind of. This data includes tablets as personal computers, therefor, including iPad sales with the MacBooks and iMacs, Apple is number one.

Well some of you may think of that as unfair, and as a matter of fact, you aren't alone. Most of the journalists who covered this information thought that the iPad shouldn't be considered a PC... But, er... What necessarily is a personal computer?

Well, in general, a computer is an electronic device that processes information and tasks... And for technicality kids, it has to use binary. Well, the iPad does all that, so why are you complaining? People compared it to other operating systems and stated that it couldn't do most of the things that those OS's can, but that is irrelevant to whether it is a computer or not, isn't it? I mean, computers way back in the day could never run half of those programs, so that reason is void. An iPad is infact a personal computer.

Feel free to discuss my verdict, but that's my view, with a bit of interesting news.

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#2 Wolvy

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Posted 01 February 2012 - 01:23 AM

But. If you're defining an iPad as a computer then you have to define all HP tablets as computers too. And the iPod as its just a small iPad. Then you might as well include phones and then HP doesn't have a chance as they don't make any.