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I like my Macs, but my Thinkpad is killer for business applications. I doubt Apple will be more than a solid, steady player in that market. They'll make money on every one they sell. My next PowerBook will be the 12" just to keep the weight down when I travel.
From 3.9 to 4.7 is quite a bit!
I don't find the Apple notebooks to be any more bulky than others. Compared to a 17 in. Toshiba (Why my dad officially retired from PCs) his 17 in Powerbook was much smaller. Apple produces the best looking products and I agree that notebooks is really where Apple will grow. Especially if they lower the prices a little bit and expand the iBook line a little bit. PC makers offer a lot more options. But college kids will be willing to try Apple based on the iPod and the student discount they recieve.
No offense. bu how is 4.7 percent ruling the roost?
Having played the Apple skeptic here for some time, I just bought an iPod for a gift. Won't know anything about it 'till after Christmas.
At any rate, the iPod and iTunes cured me of my Applephobia. Now I am a big Apple fan and I will be buying one of these Intel-based Apple notebooks coming out next year - so long as they come in semi-masculine colors. If they keep coming out with purple and pink colored laptop crap, I'll keep buying the IBM (oops, Lesovo) Thinkpads.
I still think Steve Jobs is a bit of a goof but since Bill Gates is getting really strange and weird on us, it's time to give Steve Jobs a chance to step up to the plate and hit a few out of the park.
Did I say that the iPod is an awesome product - in all its iterations? It is. The iPod is one of the greatest inventions of the past 100 years.
