
A MacBook Pro? Nah, that is going to be plugged in at a desk 80% of the time, especially when you are actually using it for work (which requires sitting down and concentrating your attention in the same spot for several hours). Number of people using Chrome: 3.04 billion worldwide 12-month growth: 65.89 to 65.27 (2020-2021) 10-year growth: 20.59 to 65.27 (2011-2021) Highest market share: 66. A Chromebook (or Windows 2-in-1) that folds into a tent or thick tablet? Maybe. Virtually no one is spending 6 hours on the couch with a laptop in their. While Windows Vistas 256 increase in market share over the last 12 months significantly outpaced Mac OS Xs gains, Windows overall June total was down.

After that it diverges into two groups:ġ) Can it run my software as fast as possibleĢ) Can it run my software as cheaply as possible People who buy PCs have more of a "can it run my software" mentality. People who want those things generally buy iPads and other tablets. In comparison, Windows accounts for 87.82 percent, and macOS holds a 9.42 percent. Stats from market intelligence company IDC suggest that Mac market share grew significantly last year, increasing from 5.8 in Q1 to 7.7 in. But they do understand a laptop that runs cool, runs silent, that has long battery life, and performs well when running apps.Ĭool, silent and long battery life hasn't driven laptop sales in the past. ChromeOS holds just 0.42 percent of the desktop OS market share worldwide. The Microsoft dominance of the desktop OS market began in the 1980s with the command-line OS DOS for the original IBM-compatible PC.

The average person buying tech doesn't anything about the processor in the laptop. I would expect average people to be turned off by a non-Intel CPU, in the short term.
