The beancounters said that Apple, which the market researcher lists as the fifth-largest computer maker in the United States, saw Mac shipments fall 12.4 per cent from the same period a year ago to 1.2 million units. Apple's market share fell nearly one per cent to just 7.6 per cent.

Acer, a real computer company, with you know, chipset, screen, memory, and other things in its past, is up 51%.

The HP xw9400 workstation, announced July 1, is aimed at such high-end applications as engineering, 3-D digital content creation, oil and gas, and science, according to company officials. AMD’s Istanbul Opterons are designed to drive up performance while reducing power, cooling and management costs. The HP xw9400 workstation can hold up to two of the chips—for 12 cores in all—and each chip offers up to 34 percent more performance per watt over AMD’s previous quad-core processors.

This year, Acer appears poised to overtake Dell as the world’s second-largest seller of personal computers, which would put a real dent into one of America’s favorite dorm-to-empire business stories. And if this comes to pass, Acer would trail only Hewlett-Packard; no computer company based outside the United States has ever climbed so high.

“That is a big achievement, and they have beaten the odds,” says Roger L. Kay, a PC industry analyst and president of Endpoint Technologies Associates, a consultancy. “Acer is a real comer.”

The PPC-L61T can be configured either as an embedded device running Windows XP Embedded or Windows CE 6.0 on Compact Flash, or as a full Windows XP machine using an optionally available SATA hard disk kit that mounts onto the backside of the computer. The unit is powered by an AMD Geode LX800 processor and comes with up to a gigabyte of RAM. The low-power processor provides adequate performance and does not need a fan. When mounted in a panel, the PPC-L61T's front bezel is sealed to IP65 specifications. The unit is designed to handle the abuse (shock, temperature, vibration, etc.) likely encountered in a manufacturing environment.

Phenom 9150e might not be the fiercest cat around, but since we've found it at geizhals.at priced at €189,21, it doesn't take long to catch up why this is a great deal. The CPU is energy efficient 1.8GHz clocked with 65W TDp.