Puts a smile on my face! Lets hope that folks realize that Apple is more then Intel chips inside.

OBVIOUSLY Apple is more valuable than Dell, and the market cap will reflect that in the coming year.

Apple ADDS VALUE to its products at every step of the process with its software, awesome design, and great software-hardware integration, plus comes up with hit new products all the time.

What does DELL do? Sells the same boring commodity boxes year after year, and then tries unsuccessfully to copy Apple's hits. Dull DJ vs an iPod? LOL, who won that fight?

Dell isn't all that valuable, because they don't INNOVATE worth a s***. Hey Mikey, spend some money on R&D and put a little soul into it. It won't hurt ya, I guarantee it.

Some flunky will find a way to write a doom and gloom article about Apple. What is funny is that a lot of so called financial analysts write these articles saying how Apple is doom yet their stock keeps going up and up. You have to wonder who would invest on the advice of an analyst who has missed a stock that has doubled in a few months and went up over 8 dollars in two days.

I have been telling my Physicians Assistant for months to invest in Apple, telling her were I think it was heading and showing her the graphs. She said she wished she had, I have been right all along. Can’t wait to tell her about the last few days during my next appointment!

The stock closed at $83.90, up $3.04 yesterday (the 11th), that's not today's pre-market movement.

in the pre-market today (the 12th, when this article was published) it's currently up $0.96, to $84.86.

842.77 M shares outstanding, market cap at close yesterday: $70.708 B.
Dell's cap at close ($31.24 x 2.35 B) = $73.41 B.

Look at the performance of these two securities over the last 5 years. When I got into the market in 2000, everyone was buying Dell. My father put my grandmother's money into Dell (against my pleadings) and it's flat to marginally lower. Meanwhile AAPL has made me very happy.
Oh, and the "price premium" that we pay as Mac users..? My stock gains are worth several times what I've paid for all my Macs combined. Thanks Steve!!! =)

Saying that Apple sold 14 million iPods this last quarter and extrapolating it to saying "42 million sold for year" is absolute crap. Apple has sold 42 million iPod to date, all included.

http://metroxing.blogspot.com/2006/01/apple-about-to-pass-dell-market-cap.html

Apple Computer sold 14 million of its market-leading digital media players in the 2005 holiday sales quarter — up from 4.5 million in the 2004 holiday quarter, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Tuesday at the Macworld trade show. All told, Apple has sold 42 million iPods — 76% of them in 2005.

As of 2:55 PM EST, AAPL market cap is 71,655 billion and DELL is 71,604 billion.

Well, Apple may have insane P/E ratios, but really this is a nice vote of confidence for our favorite computer company, and a wake-up call for vendors of "dell little boxes, performing dell little tasks."

i would not buy apple products. even though it is with intel chips inside. the mac that i use at school is continously freezing and crashing

Oh I dunno. It might be able to teach you how to punctuate and capitalise your sentences correctly…and to post messages that are relevant to the discussion.

Your, sir, have the brain of a flea.

I'm glad we've been warned that guest will not buy Apple products. I was worried that he would without giving us advance notice, thereby upsetting the balance of the universe.