>>IMO if they are, they shouldn't be. Apple is almost in a different market than Microsoft. Apple's products are consumer electronics. Microsoft keeps trying to compete there (phones, tablets) but they aren't getting anywhere. Meanwhile Mac sales remain a small percentage of PC sales.
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>The trouble is, they are redefining the "personal" in PC.The i64 is the big iron PC's swarmed over.

At least in this country there hasn't been much personal about PCs in offices in a long time now. I have worked lots of places where you can't install software on your own, boot scripts control what is on the desktop, and so on.