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Lack of Netbook, Price Hurting Apple in This Year’s Back-to-School Market

Written on August 19, 2009 by Charles Moore and 53 people have commented

There’s more evidence that Apple is missing the boat on a substantial market opportunity due to its stubborn stonewall of the small, inexpensive netbook phenomenon. Steve Jobs may have expressed his dismissal of the device category last fall, and acting Apple CEO Tim Cook took the same line by contending that the netbook experience suffers [...]

For Better or Worse, Macs Dominate High-End Sales

Written on July 24, 2009 by Charles Jade and 6 people have commented

Joe Wilcox at Betanews does some math with NPD’s June numbers and finds that Mac market share for computers costing $1,000 or more is a commanding 91 percent, up from about 66 percent a year ago.
While Apple sells only two models of Macs below $1,000, the MacBook and the Mac mini, according to NPD the [...]

MacBook 13-inch Toffee leather sleeve

Written on January 15, 2008 by Jason Terhorst and 5 people have commented

I recently got the red leather sleeve for the 13″ MacBook from Toffee. Toffee is an Australian company whom I hadn’t heard of until I saw this product. They make a whole array of sleeves like this one, even for the larger MacBook Pro.
Material/Build quality
There’s only so much you can say about leather – [...]