| The best rated laptop award changes not only | | | | apple won the 2004 Readers Choice award for |
| from year to year, but it can and does change | | | | the brand with the most impact on an |
| just as quickly from month to month. | | | | international scale. It had beat out Google, which |
| Heck, with the major players out there like Dell, | | | | had been the winner of this award for two years |
| IBM, Compaq and HP just to name a few, | | | | running. |
| competition is absolutely fierce! | | | | No matter what awards for best rated laptops or |
| But one thing is for sure. | | | | what percentages of the world market that apple |
| This years best rated laptops all seem to have | | | | acquires over the next few years, you can be |
| one thing in common. They are all called Apples! | | | | rest assured that apple will continue to put out |
| Apple has taken this honor from several leading | | | | the innovative products that they are known for. |
| computing and electronics magazines, and the | | | | Just take a look at the software that is featured |
| trend in sales seem to suggest that consumers | | | | on apples laptops and desktop computers. Such |
| are feeling the same way about them, as well. | | | | admiration of application design as iphoto and |
| Laptops such as the apple powerbook and ibook | | | | itunes make apple so popular just because these |
| have helped apple stand tall among the major | | | | programs are so useful and yet they are so easy |
| players in the computing world. | | | | to use. |
| In 2004 alone, apple announced that it had an | | | | See if you can say that about the software that |
| overall net income growth of 300 percent. That | | | | comes standard with most other mp3 players or |
| equals to a profit of $295 million in the last | | | | digital cameras. It's this powerful but symplistic |
| quarter. And if you are a stock holder that | | | | design that makes apples some of the best rated |
| certainly must put a smile on your face. I know it | | | | laptops available today. |
| does for me, and a number of my friends. | | | | One other point I would like to make. In 2006, we |
| Single computer model sales are also showing the | | | | will see Apples with intel chips instead of the |
| same trend. For instance, the ipod desktop | | | | current IBM chips. Will this improve the |
| version disappeared off the shelves at the rate of | | | | performance of the apple laptops and computers, |
| 4.5 million per year. The imac tripled its sales! | | | | I don't think so, at least not right away. But it will |
| Apples share of the international market may still | | | | possibly help apple to grow and expand in the |
| be lagging behind, though. Dell still has top honors | | | | market. |
| with 18 percent of the world market. HP comes in | | | | In the future, I believe you will see vast |
| a close second with 16 percent. And in a distant | | | | improvements in performance with this change |
| third, IBM brings in 6 percent of the share. | | | | making apple computers and laptops even better |
| Apple can put a dent in those figures though with | | | | than what's available today. |
| the press they have been getting lately. In fact, | | | | |