You’ve probably read those reports that PC sales are widely expected to contract this year by nearly 12 percent. This should come as no surprise, considering the shaky economic climate. As with autos, owners of personal computers will try to stick with the ones they have, spending money on upgrades rather than on replacement hardware. […]

Just this week, the estimates came out about how well Apple did in January. According to Piper Jaffray, which has been frequently known to get their figures wrong, Apple is on track to sell between 2 million and 2.2 million Macs for the first three months of 2009, compared to 2.3 million for the same period […]