So If only you knew

09/01/2006 01:10 PM

I'm buying Apple (AAPL) today. If you read my technology blog, you already know that I bought a new MacBook laptop this week, and I think it's the cat's pajamas (great)!

But why should anyone buy the stock you ask? My purchase is emblematic of next big wave of growth that I predict Apple is going to see over the coming years, and that is Windows users switching to Apple hardware, but staying on Windows. Apple has always had great hardware, but it's expense, and it only ran the Macintosh operating system. With Apple's switch from the PowerPC CPU to Intel CPUs, and the advent of software products like BootCamp, Parallels, and the soon to be released VMWare for Mac it is now possible to run any version of Windows on an Intel Mac (not to mention almost any version of Linux) and it's FAST and STABLE!

I work for a consulting company that is a Microsoft Gold Partner (we live an breath Microsoft all day everyday), our CEO is carrying a new MacBook Pro, our head IT guy is carrying a new MacBook Pro. I'm also aware of Microsoft employees, a other thought leaders in the Microsoft development community who are know using Apple laptops as their primary work computer.

So time will tell whether this is a few uber geeks playing with expensive toys, or a group of savvy early adopters starting a trend...I'm confident it's the later.

Prediction: 2 years from now a lot of people will look at Apple as primarily a WINDOWS hardware company, and that's a HUGE market compared to the Macintosh, or even the Ipod.