HP clearly loses, but Apple could actually benefit.

Apple's MacBook lines will not be badly affected by the extreme memory, processor, and SSD price increases, that are forcing the rest of the industry to hike retail prices more than 40%.

TL;DR: Apple leveraged the July 2024 CrowdStrike update failure, which caused 8.5 million Windows PCs to crash with Blue Screen of Death errors, to highlight Mac's superior security. By restricting kernel-level access, Macs avoid such critical failures ...