Jump ship now folks. Avoid the rush.
How long will the trend be the friend?
The Mini-Mac has me fascinated. And the reason "WHY" is NOT because it's a cheap Mac. The Mini-mac is so underpowered, that using it as a computer would be frustrating. It's too slow to do movie editing, or graphic art stuff. With a paltry 32 Meg on the video card; it's NOT for games either.
The super cool part is this. There are going to be 2 non-compatible HDTV standards, one is the HD-DVD format, the other is the Blu-Ray. These cover Sony and MGM studios. The MiniMac has a processor that can READ BOTH FORMATS. Hmmmmm.... The MiniMac has a DVI output, for connecting directly to a HDTV; and it has an ethernet connection; with wireless support.
IMHO, the MiniMac will be a home appliance, that will allow you to download HDTV DVD's to the Mac Hard Drive from a pay-per-view website; store it on the hard drive, and play it on your TV. This will be cheaper than buying both a HD-DVD player and a Blu-Ray disk player.
When you add all this up; I think Apple has a Grand-Slam coming up. Again, IMHO; your opinions, gas mileage and tax rate may vary.
Apple's a good company that finally has finally got it right with OSX, IPod, Mac Mini(or whatever its called). They are only going to go higher
The last two times Apple split it's stock (1987 and 2000) were near the long term highs for the stock.
Microsoft is no longer a growth company. They've begun issuing dividends.
Comparing their performance is pointless.
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link from MacNN:
Apple Computer downgraded to "above average"
Friday, February 11, 2005 10:51:19 AM ET
Caris & Company
http://www.newratings.com/analyst_news/article_690679.html
I'm not surprised Apple is making money:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1341787/posts
What's Apples equivalent to MS SQL Server and what enterprise IT Director would seriously consider installing it?
What's Apples equivalent to MS AD Domain Controllers and what enterprise IT Director would seriously consider deploying it?
What's Apples equivalent to MS Office and what enterprise IT Director would seriously consider deploying it?
Name one major enterprise, like a bank or even a resort hotel, that's deployed and runs an Apple based network. Actually, there might be one or two resorts but, I've never heard of them. I'm fairly positive there's no large financial institution. Apples only fit in an enterprise when a company has a graphic arts department. And usually, the only reason the Apples get installed is because of the stubbornness of the graphic artists.
The only place these two companies really overlap is in the OS market and even there, they aren't true competitors because you can't buy one and install it on the others platform without emulation.
Primarily, Apple's really in the OS market is because they're in the proprietary hardware market.....and visa versa....it's really one of those chicken/egg situations.
No one at MS is losing sleep over what Apple's next move is going to be....they're too busy wondering what's up with Nux which is in MS's market and is a viable threat to their long term business strategy.