Apple is on track to topple HP as the most popular portable computer maker when iPads are factored in, new tips from the industry hinted Thursday night. Apple is now estimated to be shipping 15 million MacBooks of all kinds in 2012 and, combined with raised external estimates of 60 million iPads the same year, would amount to 25 to 30 percent of the estimated portable market. HP is expected to ship no more than 50 million notebooks in 2011 but, because it can't count on rapid PC growth or on the TouchPad, isn't considered likely by Digitimes' sources to topple Apple
