Apple : Apple now in top 5 PC manufactuers in the UK

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Apple now in top 5 PC manufactuers in the UK Posted: Apple's Q2 2012 PC sales have seen it break into the top five for manufacturers in the UK, according to estimates from Gartner. The research firm thinks Apple shipped 187,000 Mac computers in the UK in the months spanning April until the end of June for a 7.4 per cent of the market Apple was only beaten by HP (469,000 sales and 18.5 per cent sales), Dell (313k / 12.4 per cent), Acer (293k / 11.6 per cent) and Toshiba (238k / 9.4 per cent). Tosh performed particularly well, with 51 per cent growth compared with last year. Very weak market However, despite Apple's breakthrough, Gartner says the UK market is still performing very weakly and underlined the importance of Windows 8 and Ultrabooks to returning growth. Ranjit Atwal, a Gartner research director, wrote: "The real worry for the UK PC market is whether it will ever return to solid growth. "Windows 8 and Ultrabooks now look even more important. However, messages emerging from the PC supply chain remain inconsistent and largely uninspiring."

iPhone 5 to be 7.6mm thin? Posted: Tired of tugging the iPhone 4S out of your back pocket? Apple apparently thinks the current iPhones have too much girth and, according to rumors leaking out of China, it plans to slim things down for the sixth-generation. The news comes from an "in-person report" via Chinese newspaper Apple Daily, which claims the iPhone 5 will sport a 7.6mm body. That number shaves 1.7mm off the iPhone 4S' 9.3mm body, but still wouldn't qualify the iPhone 5 as the thinnest phone on the market. The title of slimmest smartphones would still belong to Motorola's Droid Razr (7.1mm at its thinnest point) and the ZTE Athena (a slender 6.2mm). Earlier rumors pointed to the iPhone 5 making use of a super-thin screen, a feat possible thanks to in-cell technology, to slim down its depth. There's no mention in the Chinese report just how Apple plans to make the iPhone 5 thinner, but the evidence is certainly mounting when it comes to a skinnier redesign of Apple's smartphone. Taller and thinner? Tuesday, rumors of the iPhone 5's bigger screen came closer to fruition when it was discovered iOS 6 was scalable to a higher resolution of 640x1136. That resolution works out to the next iPhone coming with a 4-inch screen, which would make its screen height much more comparable to Samsung's Galaxy S3 (4.8-inch) and the HTC One X's (4.7-inch) screens. However, if the iPhone 5 does come with a 7.6mm body, it would be thinner than both of those phones by at least 1mm. Until Apple officially releases any information about the purported iPhone 5, we'll just have to keep monitoring the rumors and reports, and hoping this taller, thinner iPhone becomes a reality.

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