By the end of my first week with the Apple laptop, I was tempted to go and buy one right after work.
Shirley, for example, owns an Apple laptop, a desktop, and an iPad.
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Firms' pitches were often little more than a table, the almost mandatory Apple laptop and an easel to which a card with the firm's logo was affixed.
When blogger Violet Blue--who has pictures of herself posing with her Apple laptop on her Web site--approached Jobs on the floor of the MacWorld Expo to ask for a photo, lightly touching his arm, Jobs rebuffed her.
The new software is powering sales of Apple laptop and desktop computers ahead, thanks in part to software giant Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) troubles with Vista, the latest version of the ubiquitous Windows operating system.
Moreover the halo effect from the hot-selling media players has led to a surge in sales of Apple desktop and laptop computers that has made Apple a player in the computer market once again.
So now, at the end of each day, she downloads the images from her camera to her Apple Macbook Pro laptop, and transfers them again to a Western Digital 250GB mini hard drive.
And there will be thousands of small vendors flogging pink and orange neon cases for Apple iPhones, powered laptop backpacks, and USB missile launchers.
Users will be able to watch the Freewire service on their PC, laptop or Apple Mac as well as through televisions with the help of a set-top box.
Apple has withdrawn all its laptop and desktop computers from the EPEAT environmental rating system, including older MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models.
On the more traditional laptop front, Apple's MacBook Air-- introduced in January--is a good example of the progress being made at the high end.
More than just a glowing emblem on my laptop, the Apple logo represents my hope for the future and the man who brought it within reach.
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Mr. Pichai said the high price tag was justified and argued that the Pixel "stands up very well against a MacBook Air, " a non-touch-screen laptop made by Apple Inc.
The colors mirrors a move Apple made nearly a decade ago, rolling out computers in candy-colored shades such as lime and blueberry--although Apple's PC and laptop designers are now in a minimalist phase, sticking to black, white and silver.
Named "Mountain Lion, " the new version of OS X is the clearest sign yet of Apple's belief that the mobile, laptop and desktop world are destined to converge and that Apple wants to be a catalyst.
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Tablets, led by ipads, will soon outsell desktop and laptop computers and instead of Apple getting 5% of that market, they are getting closer to 50%.
This is all the more inexplicable considering that Jon is lugging around laptop computers from Dell and Apple, Verizon and Droid smart-phones, an iPad and an iPhone.
In October 2008, Apple introduced its next-generation MacBook laptop computer.
And I thought Apple was on the expensive side of the laptop market!
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But perhaps equally important for the long haul, Apple has a huge leg up in the laptop-replacement market, despite not targeting it aggressively at all.
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As Apple has made inroads into the PC and laptop markets, and as it has created entirely new markets in mobile and tablets, the future of personal computing was seen by many to be slipping away from Microsoft.
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With analysts speculating that Apple could roll out everything from a slim laptop sporting lightweight flash memory to a new touchscreen tablet to a second-generation iPhone, it's possible Jobs wants time to give Apple's new products a hard sell.
Apple already has a significant foothold in the laptop market, but the addition of their talismanic retina display to their most popular machine is going to drive the adoption of this popular laptop to new heights, bringing in more consumers to their world.
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The series of laptop computer fires that led Dell and Apple to recall 5.9 million Sony-made battery packs this summer were sparked by those same lithium ion batteries.
"The FBI is aware of published reports alleging that an FBI laptop was compromised and private data regarding Apple UDIDs (unique device IDs) was exposed, " according to an FBI spokesperson.
The Mac fan club gives Apple a teeny 6% share of the desktop and laptop market.
In a bid to keep up in a laptop market chock-full of competition, Apple jammed new processors into its lineup of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops Tuesday.
And notebooks have been Jobs' preferred tool for this bit of larceny--laptop sales account for roughly 29% of Apple's sales this year, according to analysts, up from just 22% in 2006.
Perhaps as a result, Apple isn't diving at the low end of the laptop market like its rivals.
Apple hopes that many people will also use it instead of a laptop.
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