DellX4

DellX4 is not a new computer from Dell, because if that would be true, such an article wouldn't fit here at all. You can simply consider this an equation, and the answer lies at your feet - Apple=DellX4!


If I remember well, we talked about this subject some time ago, but things were a bit different. How? Well, Apple was only 2 times as big as Dell, and now...

...we already know what's the status, but let's see where it all started, shall we?

Back in 1997, when asked what he would do if he was in charge of Apple Computer, Michael Dell answered, in front of several thousand IT executives "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."

A month later, Steve Jobs already had an ambitious goal set, and was saying that "We're coming after you, you're in our sights."

Time passed, and it seems Apple and Steve Jobs managed to make things right, because on the 13th of January, 2006, Apple surpassed Dell's market value, with $72.13 billion vs. $71.97 billion at market close...

Then, it all started to move faster, so on the 27th of July, 2007, Apple was valued at $127.81 billion, while Dell was only worth $63.65 billion.

While Dell was going down, Apple continued to climb, so in the same year, on the 6th of December, the equation was Apple=3XDell($165.66 billion vs. $54.42 billion).

Finally, in yesterday's NASDAQ trading, Apple got up with $6.05, or 3.48 percent, and closed at $180.00, while the company's market value passed 4 times that of Dell's, $158.66 billion vs. $38.97 billion.

Well, since Dell seems to go down all the time, from now on, this should be a battle against itself for Apple, because it is also worth being mentioned that its value was a bit lower than in December 2007, when the Cupertino-based company was only "DellX3..."