Friday, July 4, 2003

Apple posts new 'Switch' stories Apple has added new "Switch" stories from real people who have upgraded from PC to Mac, with submissions from a musician who wrote a musical score on a train, a German lawyer, a sculptor who lost patience with her Dell, and more... [MacMinute] 5:40:21 AM    comment []

May sales indicate year of the laptop and the LCD When Apple CEO Steve Jobs declared 2003 the "year of the notebook" in January, he may have been more on target than even he suspected. According to recently released sales results from The NPD Group's point-of-sale tracking service, May marked the first time that the dollar sales of notebook computers sold surpassed the dollar sales of desktop computers in U.S. retailers. 2003 may also be the "year of the LCD" since May also marked the first month that LCD monitors generated more unit sales volume than standard tube-based CRTs. Laptops and LCDs soared as retail computer product sales posted their best year-over-year sales results in nearly four years, jumping 13.6 percent over May 2002. [MacCentral] 5:37:50 AM    comment []