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that Sony VAIO is only an anomaly. even Amazon is an anomaly since so many people buy from online sites with better bundles or the Apple store directly. so, for these Macs to place so well on Amazon is only a partial indicator of general market success.

basically, you have to see where else people can buy that VAIO in terms of bundles, and you'll see that Amazon is one of the few places where it makes a good deal. For the Macs, though, Amazon is not the best deal, but still it placed so well..... that's really the underlying theme here.

go Apple!

To the tune of "Off to see the Wizard":

My stock and I are happy,
so wonderfully happy today
I just need to determine when to SELL,
because then I'll be so . . . . . . . . . .

fricking happy you can't godd^#n well believe it, I mean so happy you'll hear me screaming from the rooftops about my new-found wealth thanks to the beautiful Steve Jobs and the lovely, amazing, scrumptious computer company named after that fruit!!!!!

Okay, so it doesn't completely follow the tune. Sosumi.

I'm still happy.

Anyone else notice how easy it is to convert people these days? For two years I heard nothing but "yeah, yeah - Apple...whatever", then three conversions in the last four months. My sister-in-law called me up long distance to ask me if she could still use Word on one of those Apple things. Interesting times...

I just helped them out by ordering a Mac mini from Amazon about 3 hours ago. They had them in stock via Office Depot for a brief time today. I should have it delivered by Friday!

I have a sell order in when (if ever) Apple should fall to $70/share. That's about a 400% gain for me. The "play money" I invested is not "play money" any longer. Sell? Not yet. There are another 6 Million iPods and 15 Million Mac Minis to sell yet this year.

Wonder what Bill Palmer has to say..?

Only 6 million iPods for the year? I think they'll sell that many in the first (calendar) half of this year.

Hey! You stole my comment, MDN. Heh.

Scawny Austin...

I think you should sell now. Unless you bought a few weeks ago and are in it for the short-term capital gain, you should sell. The rule of thumb with Wall Street is do the exact opposite of what the analysts say...If they're marking Apple as a strong buy...sell.. I think a more reasonable Apple price is 50-60 bucks. Didn't anyone learn anything in 2000?

I've never been a big fan of alternate universes. I'm backing Apple, and hope they do well and all, but in the universe I come from, you would NEVER see five of the top six bestselling machines on Amazon be FREAKING MACINTOSHES!

I want to go home! I want to go back to my world, to Earth with its single sun, still glorious in its white youthful brilliance, where birds still soar in the sky and armies of mutant roaches haven't yet decimated the forests and eaten all of our precious coffee beans.

BASTARD ALTERNATE REALITY I HATE YOU!!!!!

But I also want to keep the Apple stock price. Can they do that?

Also, the $799 eMac is number 9 on the list.

6/10 on the list are Macs.

Oops...that Sony VAIO is down to 4th place now.

Just the fact that the Vaio is in the list at all might give us a hint as to why there are rumors of Apple/Sony cooperation coming up. Sony is the most Mac-like of any of the PC manufacturers. They should come into the light and this new Cell Chip may be the vehicle.

To non-quote John Crighton;
Like frell do I need a Dell.
Or a Sony..
Magic word is ampersandspongwapcapletlooselivervendettaandprang

L-Train: Didn't anyone learn anything in 2000?


What happened in 2000?

in 2000, apple issued a stock split.

That VAIO is down to 5th now. I love it.

Magic word "bad". As in how it looks for the PC's on Amazon's Top Seller Lis

And looking further down ... we can see that Apple has 9 out of the top 20 sellers on the desktop computer list with HP (5 items), Sony (3 items), Compaq (1), eMachines(1), and a 512MB Mini Cruzer USB 2.0 Pen / Flash Drive taking the other places ...(???)

Pretty cool ... magic word efforts ... as in Apple's efforts paid dividends (no share joke pun intended ... sob sob sob ... wish I had some Apple shares ... sob sob sob!)

The other day.. I was in the Mac lab..and some guys sat down next to me.. one was obviously helping the other navigate OS X..

The 'newb' was VERY skeptical.. besides practically jumping out of his chair when he saw the minimize window genie effect, he was pouting the whole time...

He pulled up some website.. on .. *shudder.. Internet Explorer.. and I guess the website wasn't working.. or something..

"See.. this is why I don't like Macs"

*groan

Another guy was working on the Mac.. but when a friend came by he whined that.. when he wanted to edit a file he had to go all the way up to the top menu bar... (he didn't know about CTRL-click for context menus)... "Man.. that's why I don't use Macs"


Soooo...Apple's problems are..

a)non-standards-compliant websites and
b)ignorant users

got it..

HillBilly sez:

Anyone else notice how easy it is to convert people these days?
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And How!!

I've switched about 5 people in the last 6 mos., and the last guy I switched claims he has switched about 10 people.

Maybe PCers listen to other PCers more than to Mac users.
Anyway, I have never had so many receptive PC users willing to listen, look at the facts, and switch.

And for all of our touting the ease of use, cost of ownership, the beauty of the OS, etc. of the Mac, it HAS to be those pesky viruses that tipped the scales. I would hear stories from the fever swamps of the PC community where people would throw out entire computers after 6 months or a year, or after multiple reformats and installs. Their computers were literally being eaten ALIVE.

Scary.

And most PC users are still astonished that amongst Mac users that the greenest newbie to the heaviest power user are all but unconcerned with the problem of viruses. That my 12 year old son with a laptop and an iMac has never done ANYTHING to make his computers virus safe, but both his computers run like a top all day long.

It's like the last reel of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, where all the alien invaders from Mars sickened and died from the bacteria on earth that they could not defend themselves from.

And Microsoft is apparently so far away from any solution to this problem, that we still have YEARS before people will feel safe using a Microsoft OS.

Who would have known it would be this?

Add in the iPod to reel in ever more customers, and it's a one-two punch that is showing results every day.

The guys at Dell and Gateway HAVE to be freaking out, because they have to sell a product with a sick engine and no relief in sight. I can just imagine conversations between Michael Dell and Bill Gates.

I hear that Dell pays M'soft $80 for each copy of Windows on each computer it sells. Wonder if Mike is asking for a discount? Does Dell have to support OS problems? Or does that go to M'Soft?

Either way, the PC providers have to be unhappy about this. As long as the consumer kept biting the hook it was fine. But the bad press, word on the street, and Apples emergence have to be causing major headaches.

And the SWITCH goes on...

And so it begins.

David Vesey

Sweeet. I hope Apple splits then goes back to 80 on the momentum of selling a 2-3 million macs over the next 6 months.

This Amazon.com, does it have a big market? Does it serve other areas besides Brazil?