...allows my 17 MBP to run ~10˚ cooler - this has seemed helpful when encoding video & dropping the fan speed from ~5k back down to base...

Sorry Apple, but I can understand why you had your lawyers call MS to insist that they stop running their laptop clunkers campaign: it has taken almost 10% of your marketshare! Feeling threatened, are we? (Tongue never planted more firmly in cheek!!!) Let MS keep pitching cheap junk with the laptop clunkers campaign. It's only helping Apple.

I was under the impression that the 91% was 91% of all dollars spent on computers of all type at retail stores. . . . not just laptops.

Ouch! Dell, that burning sensation is all your margins evaporating. Apple's going to drive these guys out of business if this impressive conquest of the high end goes much further.

Dell should probably just liquidate the company and distribute the proceeds to their shareholders. : P

I wouldn't be all that surprised to see HP sell off their PC business to Acer or ASUS at some point in the not-too-distant future.

What percentage of $1,000 laptops make up the entire laptop market? Without that figure, it'd be silly to write Dell/PC laptop makers off just yet.

Looking forward to my own MacBook upgrade sometime in the near future!

true we don't know the percentage of unit sales that the $1000 market makes up. I suspect low. But the point of the article is that the 1000 market has higher margins, and so Apple can be perfectly happy selling one 1000 box while Dell may sell 2-3 $300 boxes. Apple likely makes more money on the one than Dell makes on the 3. Unit sales based market share comparisons always have Apple with a low market share, to which Apple basically yawns and motions the trucks full of cash to back into their bank vault.I'd actually be more interested in dollar market share. I'm shocked that Apple has such a mindshare at the moment that they'd have 91% of the 1000 market. That is serious dominance. As for the $300 boxes, if I had to guess I'd assume that substantially more productivity comes out of a $1000 computer than a $300 computer, for all sorts of reasons, and those reasons don't necessarily have to be that macs make their users more productive (though I suspect that's true also).

but can u cut video on it lololol

It is a shame that today a company makes a great product, with minimal quality cutting has to be considered a "premium" product.

Innovative and great should be the standard, not "premium."

Also, the "lap top hunters" are a collection of the worst shoppers in history. This is how you make a decision on a tool you are buying? I put more thought into buying a coffee pot then they put into buying a computer. They deserve what they get. (I drink a great cup of coffee!)

this is a meaningless statistic, with so many PC laptops under $1000 that have the same or better specs than the macbooks. It's a pity Microso$t chose to run commercials with so many inaccuracies, when they could have made much the same point with truths. No wonder the MS sales have tanked (a paltry 13 billion in the quarter instead of $14), with an attitude like that.