The top four vendors are now Lenovo, HP, Dell, and ASUS. What is interesting, however, is that as Mac sales dropped roughly 10 percent and personal computers overall dropped 5.7 percent for the year, the top four leaders in the market all saw growth as Apple was pushed to number five.Īlthough Mac sales were up in Q4 2016 compared to Q4 2015, an analyst note today from Bloomberg’s Anand Srinivasan and Wei Mok has revealed Apple has dropped to the fifth largest PC vendor, with ASUS (ASUSTeK) overtaking fourth place. It’s not surprising that Mac sales dropped for Apple in 2016 as they experienced their first year over year sales decline since 2001. It’s been a while, but these new machines certainly seem worth the wait.Beware the 9 warning signs of bad IT architecture and see why these 10 old-school IT principles still rule. The non-Touch Bar 13-incher costs $1,499 and ships now. The Touch Bar models will ship within three weeks. The new MacBook Pro will start at $1,799 for the 13-inch and $2,399 for the 15-inch, and are available for preorder Today.

There's a 13-inch version of the new MacBook Pro that's spec'd a little lower but has traditional keyboard with function keys intact. If all of this sounds bonkers to you and you just want a new machine with real function keys, Apple has one of those too. No more entering your personal information or your credit card number, no more autofill and the attendant security risks. What makes Apple’s unique, though, is that it’s going to enable Apple Pay on the web with the touch of a finger. That alone isn’t anything special laptops have had fingerprint readers for years and years.

Another key aspect of the Touch Bar? It comes with a TouchID fingerprint reader where the power button currently resides.

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