One in five Chinese dreams of Mac

According to a survey Morgan Stanley, more than 20% of Chinese users are willing to exchange your old PC to a Mac. By the degree of "desire" to overtake Apple Soup in China all the other brands. At the same time the share of China accounted for 16% of sales in Apple last reported quarter, representing a monetary value of about $ 4.5 billion. The Chinese market is the second largest market for "apple" of the empire after the United States.

To date, there is a local leader of the vendor - the company Lenovo. Computers of this brand uses 31% of respondents. Second place at HP - 11%. South Korea's Samsung became the supplier of PCs for 10% of people in China, and 9% - for Asus, the remaining 39% divided by other manufacturers, including Apple c 5%. The latter could easily increase the share if it were not for one thing: most of the Mac are much more of the $ 600 that consumers are willing to pay for the computer. The study confirmed that at current prices, quite a few respondents actually buy a Mac. However, if all participated in the survey Morgan Stanley switched to Chinese Apple-PC, the American manufacturer Lenovo was second supplier in the country.

Earlier this year, Apple CEO Tim Cook, in an interview with Bloomberg said that he had never seen a country with such a large middle class, whose members so love to buy products Apple. "In China, the limit of development may only sky" - says Cook.

Some experts believe that if Apple paid more attention to China, it could make it even more impressive results.

The next year, AMD will introduce chipsets 1090FX and 1070 processors in the performance of AM3 +

Despite the fact that the chipset 990FX and 970, on which are based motherboards for processors in the performance of AM3 +, not even half a year , AMD is already working on their successors. So, next year at their 990FX and 970 chipsets will come 1090FX and 1070 respectively, the first details of which have become known recently.

The most interesting feature of the AMD 1090FX, in comparison with its predecessor, will support USB 3.0 natively, rather than through third-party controllers. Unfortunately, the number of ports, USB 3.0, implemented by means of the chipset, not reported, but given that the A75 provides four such connectors, it is hoped that AMD 1090FX provide work at least as a smaller number of ports.

Another interesting feature of AMD 1090FX - Support for up to eight ports SATA 6 Gb / sec. For comparison, the Intel X79 chipset provides the only two ports SATA revision 3.0. Finally, the new chipset will support AMD 32 lines of interface PCI Express, which will be divided equally between the two slots for video cards. Supporting AMD CrossFireX technology and Nvidia's SLI, of course, also be present.

As for the chipset 1070, he, unfortunately, will not support the technology to USB 3.0, and more PCI Express lanes will be curtailed, but the promised support of the same eight-port SATA 6 Gb / sec. It is also reported that neither AMD 1090FX, or AMD 1070 will not support an interface PCI Express 3.0.