... of microprocessors. The industry standard for computers runs on Intel's microprocessor family such as the Pentium series microprocessors. Compaq has little choice but to use an Intel microprocessor for their laptops. Intel currently possesses about 85 percent of the market so they have supplier power over Compaq. This puts Intel in a very powerful position in this situation. There are very few ... . This in turn limits the price a company can charge for their product and thus profitability is negatively affected. In the case of Compaq, the threat of substitutes is minimal. Since laptops ...

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... the palm of their own hands. The Palm Pilot solution is effecting the laptop sales, or by the same notion having power of substitution over them. Some consumers use their laptops for viewing DVD's and listening to music. Again, in that market the substitutes are the Portable DVD players, and in music - the MP3 plays and I-Pod (which cost a fraction of ... ...

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