Dell and HP Profits Down; Apple Still Up

After a dismal report of HP’s profits down a month ago, Dell have come forward with their profits for this quarter – and they’re equally dismal. Most computer part production companies, like NVIDIA and ATI, and to some extent Intel, have reported poor results recently, and now the big companies that build the machines are following suit.

However, among this chaos, who can forget how well Apple are doing? Their overall sales profits are up, for some unexplainable reason. Even though Steve Ballmer has been quoted saying that ‘during the recession, more people are realising how expensive Macs are’; more and more people seem to be buying into them (I can see from my college alone that a third of the class now own Macbooks).

We could see a major shift in the technology business – from the sturdy home machines, to more expensive ‘quality’ laptops and desktops, and also to Netbooks – which have snagged a decent market percentage, and can only be boosted by Google’s Chrome OS for Netbooks.

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