Apple Reaches 12% Market Share In U.S. Notebooks

bonch writes "Apple's U.S. notebook market share has doubled to 12% after shipping 1.33 million Macs in the quarter. Apple also shipped 8.11 million iPods, topping analyst estimates, for a net income of $472 million. Remember when Apple was dying?" From the article: "The iPod shipments appeared to calm investors worried that growth in that red-hot business was slowing and Apple's results topped what analysts had said was a conservative forecast. Shares of Apple were down some 24 percent since early May. 'Apple looked good,' said Jane Snorek, technology analyst with First American Funds. 'The PC numbers were great, too.'"

Comments

Low inventory

[SuperKendall]

Apple traditionally does not keep much inventory around, they have a few in stores but mostly laptop sales come online where they build to order.

Difference in bundling

[SuperKendall]

With apple computers I can choose not to use OS X on any of the computers they ship.

If I don't want to use iPhoto, or Safari I can just remove them.

With IE it's very hard to entierly remove it from the system.

Merely including a program with an OS is a far different matter than intractibly binding it in the deepest layers of the OS.

Macbook Pro

[SuperKendall]

The Macbook has the intel integrated graphics, so it's not as good for gaming as the Macbook Pro, which has a pretty decent Radeon x1600.

Also the Parallels virtualization people are working on getting that to have a direct passthrough for DirectX, right now you have to use Bootcamp and reboot for games. Then again, a dedicated gaming partition is a good idea anyway I think so you can tweak they hell out of it without affecting everyday system stability.

The question to ask is really why you'd get any other laptop, when the Macbook Pro can run OS X and Windows (together or seperate boot) and even Linux under virtualization, whereas with any other laptop you can only run Linux and Windows. Give yourself the maximum flexibility.