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To: Doren who wrote (63658)	4/26/2007 4:22:52 PM
From: Paul Chiu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

what's their pc share now?

To: Doren who wrote (63658)	4/26/2007 4:24:21 PM
From: Kip S	Respond to of 213182

"Where would Apple's stock price be if they hit 40% in 2112?" That's a little too far in the future for me to have much of an opinion--or care. ;-)

To: Doren who wrote (63658)	4/26/2007 4:48:06 PM
From: stark ave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

<<I feel Apple has the potential to grab 40% of the computer market. >> don't know about 40% anytime soon, but i do know that the corporate world has taken notice of Apple. Yesterday's results really stirred the pot up. i was in two client meetings today. At the first one (a composite reinforcement manufacturer), one of the people on the committee I deal with is a long time Mac man and he and I chat it up about Macs all the time. The other six present were time tested Windows guys. As I got up to leave, I asked my Mac buddy what he thought of the earnings report. Upon hearing that, everybody else chimed in on what they thought of macs... and EVERYBODY was high on them. At the next meeting with three directors of a small local bank, that's all they could talk about once i whipped out my 17" MBP. I mean, their eyes are ALL open to the Mac. The times, they are a changin'. Stay long folks, and add when you can. This train is rolling and it's got plenty of fuel to burn.

To: Doren who wrote (63658)	4/26/2007 7:45:47 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

I feel Apple has the potential to grab 40% of the computer market. I do firmly believe one of the reasons Apple is garnering so many switchers now is that Macs have the ability to boot into Windows with Apple's Boot Camp, or run it in OS X at reasonable speeds with Parallels. That makes it an easy sell to people nervous about going cold turkey with Windows right away. However, I'm also unsure how many people are even aware Macs are capable of that feat currently. Rumors indicate Boot Camp will be installed by default with Leopard, so you just bring your own flavor of Windows to the game and install it. If they market that aspect of it, even a little, it could push Apple to the all important 10% level in a couple of years. Momentum tends to feed itself. Apple took many years to <censored bodily function> away their 20% market share they had in the 80's. Now Jobs has righted the ship and turned it around. It will take many more years to get back to that level. I think it can be done, but it will be a long road.