Apple’s previous all-time closing high was $336.12 set on January 7, 2011. Apple’s all-time intraday high stands at $343.23, set today. Apple’s 52-week low is $190.25.
At market close, Apple’s market value stands at $314.14 billion.
The top five U.S. publicly-traded companies, based on market value, are:
1. Exxon Mobil (XOM) – $378.85B
2. Apple (AAPL) – $314.14B
3. Microsoft (MSFT) – $241.44B
4. Berkshire-Hathaway (BRKA) – $197.39B
5. General Electric (GE) – $197.22B
Selected companies’ current market values:
• Google (GOOG) – $196.41B
• Wal-Mart (WMT) – $191.39B
• IBM (IBM) – $183.42B
• Intel (INTC) – $115.41B
• Cisco (CSCO) – $115.23B
• Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) – $98.26B
• Amazon (AMZN) – $82.89B
• Disney (DIS) – $74.80B
• Nokia (NOK) – $38.46B
• Sony (SNE) – $36.29B
• Research In Motion (RIMM) – $32.24B
• Dell (DELL) – $27.05B
• Yahoo! (YHOO) – $21.64B
• Motorola Mobility (MMI) – N/A
• Adobe (ADBE) – $16.70B
• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) – $6.27B
• RealNetworks (RNWK) – $558.94M
AAPL quote via NASDAQ here.
And on a day when the rest of the market was down!
AAPL is the best investment I’ve ever made.
I knew this post was coming, but I still jump and do the little dance when it shows up.
Across the globe somewhere, I stayed up late for MDN to post this.
That’s 11.6 dells.
AAPL is definitely my best investment: 8,615% return to date on the stock! I will never see another opportunity like that in my lifespan.
Add to that a couple of tens of kilodollars on the options plays over the years. Sadly, been hard to do much with options on this stock for a few months now – premiums are way too high.
Now, there better be “some” iPhone-related announcement from Verizon tomorrow. If there is (and a Verizon iPhone is going on sale within 30 days), AAPL keeps its recent gains and maybe goes higher tomorrow. If NOT, back down to $330 or lower.
CES was only a few days ago. It seems odd that Verizon did not use the bigger CES stage to make the iPhone announcement, if they are going to do it tomorrow. Perhaps Apple did not want the announcement made at CES. I guess Verizon is getting plenty of attention this way too, thanks to all the rumor-mongering.
Keep running AAPL!
At 370 I get a new iMac!!!
But we have to focus upon all the “news” coming out of CES.
Congrats, ChrissyOne! Purchasing AAPL a few years ago was the best investment I’ve ever made.
Onward and upward!!!
Can some body explain me why Microsoft shares are going up??? Microsoft is nothing but failure after failure. Missed deadlines, incomplete features and so on.. Who in his right mind would like to buy shares from a company like that?
Been in since 2001 at 9 bucks, and I’ve funded the last 3 machines I’ve bought with AAPL sales. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
Splurge and get a MacPro and a nice monitor. It will eat an iMac alive, can be easily upgraded, holds it’s value better, can hold 5 internal HD’s ( one in the second optical bay ) and has more USB & FW ports.
@@C1,
We like our Mac Pros, especially in the winter when we enjoy the heat they produce !
We had to add a second supply duct and a dedicated return to our office to keep our office cool in the Texas summer.
@ @C1
Here’s what I’ve discovered after owning both…
I have no use for ‘upgrading’. What can you upgrade, the video card? I don’t care. The video card on my 4 year old iMac is perfect fine for me today. The card in the new ones will more than suffice. I don’t play games any more. Bus and processor speeds are more important, and you can’t upgrade those on a MacPro either.
PCI slots? I have never used them. FireWire 800 is fast enough for photography and video.
I don’t use internal HDs, I use external drives, and my next will either be a Drobo or a RAID from OWC.
I have plenty of USB and FW ports.
Next to my iMac sits… (guess) a nice monitor. Right now, it’s a 23″ Cinema HD, which I’ll probably sell and buy a new 27″. I always use 2 monitors, so if I bought a Mac Pro I’s have to buy at least one more anyway. This way I get 2 new 27″ monitors.
AND BEST OF ALL… I don’t have a tower case to deal with. My office is a model of bauhaus-style minimalism, and I like it that way. I had G4 towers in the past and had to replace them just as often, and just ended up spending more money.
Nope. It’ll be a 27″ iMac, thanks. I spend less money and can upgrade more often with less clutter. I’m not saying the towers aren’t better and fester, but most people don’t ever use them to their potential, and I don’t need bragging rights.
FASTER…. not fester. (Uncle Fester? Paging Dr. Freud…)
@ Arnold Ziffel
My last tower was a Quicksilver dual 800 G4. And yeah.
The new towers are way better, and silent, and great. I had one at Adobe. Just not worth the extra money for my needs.
I bet that Michael Dell wishes to h3ll that they had followed his advice and shut Apple down. Not only does he have to continually eat his famous words, his company has to eek out an existence in a world where Apple dominates the profits. Apparently, Apple also dominates the future.
27″ iMac with an i7 – $2,199
Apple LED Cinema Display – $999
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$3,198
-or-
The cheapest MacPro (with 1GB less RAM) – $2,499
2 Apple LED Cinema Displays – $999 each
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$4,497
With that extra 1,300 bucks, I could buy a pretty nice RAID.
…or more AAPL !
Post about buying more AAPL was mine. Put the wrong name in.
Exactamundo!
@ChrissyOne,
Prior to the Mac Pros, we had a DP 500 MHz PowerMac G4. I don’t remember it producing so much heat, though. It was / is a great machine – used heavily until we bought one of the first PowerMac G5s.
I think you’re on the right track regarding iMacs vs. Mac Pros. We’ll give that serious thought next upgrade cycle.
The biggest problem with the Quicksilver wasn’t the heat (though it was hot). The big problem was THE NOISE.
Thankfully, that’s not a problem with any of Apple’s machines any more.
Like I said, there is nothing wrong with the MacPro towers, they’re silent and fast and awesome. I just don’t need one.
@ChrissyOne,
You are right about the G4 being noisy. I had forgotten how much racket it made.
The iMac is a great machine, I agree.
Here’s another difference:
4GB, 2-module RAM upgrades from OWC…
For iMac = $49.97
For MacPro = $77.99
Yes, the MacPros can hold a lot more memory, but I doubt I’d ever need more than 8GB total.
I sold 75 shares of Apple at $325 on Dec. 28th, as required by my retirement plan, which I originally bought back in Feb 2007 for $86. I’m gonna buy a new fan for my Macbook ’07. It’s sooooo noisy! Maybe I should get a new MBA instead? Nah, I just put in a 64GB SSD and it’s way snappy, scored 170 on MacBench. I’ll use the proceeds to pay for the 23 triple-pane windows I’m putting into my retirement house.
C1
I am with you. Always thought I needed the HP (horsepower) and upgradability (a word?), but went with the iMac 27 i5.
I like the reduced number of cables and have found that the iMac is more than sufficient for 99% of my needs. Plus, many people comment on what a cool looking computer it is when they come into my store. I then have to show them the 1 cable (power) and compare it to my point of sale system with at least 20 cables-serious. Now that is elegant.
@ChrissyOne
Which do you fancy, OWC RAID or Drobo (proprietary)?
There seem to be a lot of NAS alternatives too, but I’m not sure I fancy them.
@C1 and pablorph,
Okay, okay, I agree – the iMac totally rocks.
Now, sadly, I have to go back to using my Mac Pro.
@ John Crawford
I’m leaning toward one of these…
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MEQX2T8.0S/
The Drobo looks pretty cool, and I’ve heard good things from a few users, but the price-per-TB is a lot lower with a RAID.
I don’t care for NCS because I don’t want to have to connect to it over ethernet. I’m planning on putting all my music and other media on it, as well as my raw photos, and I really only need a direct connection to one machine. I’d rather have a FW 800 connection.
That said, I haven’t done all the research yet, and would love to hear other opinions.
OOPS! Here’s the correct link:
http://tinyurl.com/rce2eo
Shame on you for spaces, OWC! What are you, Mac people?!?!
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Hi Steveness can’t use company money to settle personal scores. And unfortunately his personal holdings are insufficient to shut down Dull and give the money back to the shareholders.
Sorry, *His* Steveness
It’s much more satisfying to watch them wither aways slowly on their own, isn’t it?
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Comment from: Troy
Can some body explain me why Microsoft shares are going up??? Microsoft is nothing but failure after failure. Missed deadlines, incomplete features and so on.. Who in his right mind would like to buy shares from a company like that?
Its because they are going to sell a gazillion Connects. However, after trying one at “Worst Buy”, I will not be buying one. I’ll stick with the Wii.
@ ChrissyOne:
My current set up is an iMac Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 2 TB HD and a LaCie 4big Quadra 4 TB RAID unit.
I thought about a Drobo (heard about it all the time on MacBreak Weekly), but decided against it … can’t really remember why, something to do with not being a real RAID system possibly?
@ Michael
Well I’m reading some reviews on the drobo now that might be a clue…
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=drobo&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari&cid=2007827415848459710&os=reviews
Cons: These are SLOW. Let me say that again. They are SSSSLLLOOOWWW. And, despite the FW800 interface, the fastest throughput I get is around 22MB/sec — whether using USB or FW800.
I know what you’re thinking. Just another disgruntled reviewer who either doesn’t know what he’s doing or who has a bad unit. Right? Well, I have four of these hooked up to different HP Z800 workstations using different 1394b adapter cards and the latest Unibrain drivers. Doesn’t make a difference. Bottom line: This is a bad choice for uses that require any kind of throughput, like image or video editing.
Doesn’t sound promising… :/
Conversely…
It seems the OWC unit kicks ass…
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/review/owcs_new_qx2_brings_raid_5_to_the_home_desktop/
Insomnia + Boredom = reading lots of reviews all night, and the more I read, the worse it looks for the Drobo.
Everyone says it’s slow. Quite a few say it’s loud (which is the biggest demerit in my book – I record audio in my office). Many complain about data loss and difficult setup.
Aside from not having to use matched pairs of drives, and therefore being able to more dynamically add storage space, I don’t get what the big advantage is.
@ChrissyOne
Thanks for the info’. Can’t get the OWC in the UK, but they seem to good at shipping overseas so I might order the empty enclosure and populate it over here.
I haven’t yet found whether the OWC is compatible with Time Machine (which I use occasionally with CarbonCopyCloner as my main backup.).
@Michael
I have had poor experiences with LaCie power supplies; that’s why I am considering a hopefully more robust solution!
I fancy a tricked-out i7 iMac too, but struggle to justify it even though I hold some AAPL since 2004.
Have a good New Year.
OWC says it’s compatible with Time Machine – Just under the picture there’s a “Time Machine Ready” graphic.
A few notes about the drives you use… I read one user advise against Western Digital Green drives, as they drop out of the array if it encounters a problem. No other info on this, but it’s worth looking into if you want to use those.
It comes with Hitachi Deskstars by default, which I’ve always had good luck with.
I will never use a Seagate drive again. In my experience, 100% failure, including the one in my white 2007 iMac, which I replaced with a WD Caviar.
Another glowing Drobo review… (not)
http://macperformanceguide.com/Reviews-Drobo.html
Thanks, ChrissyOne.
I was considering WD Greens. Will stick with Deskstars.
500 here we come!
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