Apple's notebook market share continues to grow at a remarkable rate - outpacing competitors across the industry - and the company seems set to maintain its success on news that Dell and HP have elected to slash their laptop research and development budgets.
DigiTimes has the story, reporting, "Notebook research and development personnel working at Dell and HP are assigned mainly to test the performance and reliability of new parts and components. This work overlaps that performed by R&D staff at ODM makers and so is an area vendors can afford to cut back on without impacting new product development, the so