January 10, 2006
Apple to take on Dell
And the angels sing, "Halleluyah, Halleluyah" while the geeks rejoice in the streets. Apple will not stand in the way of people who want to load Windows on their MacBook Pro or iMac Core Duo. Yeah, you heard me (angels continue to sing).
So what does this mean. Well a couple of things:
1. Apple really is a hardware company. People have been saying that the money is in software for so long that we all just assumed Apple was a software company. They're not. They use software to sell hardware. When they (finally) figured it out that they can sell (much much) more hardware by being on both sides of the the fence, they jumped on it.
2. Apple will eventually take on Dell for dominance in the consumer PC market. Apple will probably never have a chance in the corporate space due to the price premium they put on their products for desirablity, but there is no excuse anymore that a home PC user will have not to buy the Apple PC they so desire. For years folks (including myself) have been avoiding Apple at home because work PCs run Windows and they don't want to have the headaches. Now, you can run either (and I bet there will be an option to dual boot with some 3rd party software that'll cost $0 after rebate). You can run Windows for work and games AND run Mac OS for iMovie/Final Cut, GarageBand, iPhoto or whatever else. It's going to be a god send for people like me who adore Final Cut software but just can't afford another PC (especially a high end Mac) to run it. For my next upgrade (probably end of next year or early 2007 right after Macworld) you can bet that I'll have my eye on a dual core notebook for Hongyun and a big bad Intelimac quad core for home/media center usage.
And guess what, only Apple hardware will be able to do this. You'll pay a little more, but it beats buying a Dell AND a Mac. Eventhough Apple stock was up a few percent today, I'm selling just about everything else I own in my "speculation" investment account and dumping it into Apple. I'll probably keep a little left over for even crazy specualtive moves, but I'm betting Apple is going to big in 2006 and much BIGGER by 2008 or2009.
