PCs have long been known for their great value. _This is part of the reason Microsoft was so successful. _Affordable PCs were produced at high scale and sold at a high volume allowed Microsoft to gain a large amount of marketshare in the early days of the PC industry. _Of course in an effort to make more money on low margins, build quality on PCs suffered along with a ruined experience with the introduction of crapware. _There was practically no innovation from the OEMs after laptops became mainstream. __The higher end of the PC market typically appealed to gamers. _The two leaders in that market , Alienware and VooDoo were bought by Dell and HP, respectively. Historically Apple maintained a nice niche on the high end of the market pushing well designed hardware. _ The success of the ipod and then iphone are of course well known to our readers here. _Microsoft has struggled in the shift to mobile computing. _Microsoft is getting squeezed on the high end from Apple...

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