Apple has long been a tiny piece of the pie in the whole personal computer market. Today, in the US, Apple has about 5%.

Even though those numbers look like a weakness, we all enjoy the advantages of the "boutique" nature of Apple.

Solution: Parallels, and the Intel Chip

The ability to run Windows XP within Mac OS X at first was a novelty. But this new feature of the Intel Macs has blossomed into a remarkable solution for many solutions, such as Windows users who have wanted to work on an Apple system or Apple users who work in a Windows-centric corporate environment.

How it works:

Apple pundits are speculating on a projected 9 million Macs selling in 2007!

In various sources around the web, there's a lot of banter about a quote by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster:

Last year, Apple announced it's plans to abandon the PowerPC processor and start shipping all of their computers with an Intel based chip. It didn't take long for the buzz to start about these new machines and their ability to run Windows XP.