Comments on: 85% of Mac Owners Also Have a PC: Report

By: computer_credit_financing

computer_credit_financing — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:29:10 +0000

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By: mech

mech — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:50:52 +0000

As Koki, I don’t discriminate against a good thing. Each has its pros and cons. That being said, I only own an iPhone (a physical Apple product). However, I run OSX on all my PCs and netbook. For some the OS is what matters, for others it’s the hardware. I like the flexibility/upgradability of a physical box, but love OSX.

I think the number could’ve been very different if they counted all the hackintoshes out there.

By: Koki

Koki — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:20:50 +0000

Let me say that I don’t discriminate against any computer or any operating system. I love all computers with open arms.

With that said, I’m gladly part of this 85%. All my desktops and home servers are Windows based, and my laptops will always Apple. I’ll probably always have this type of setup, because quite frankly, it’s how I enjoy working.

By: Eideard

Eideard — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:33:32 +0000

I imagine many are switchers like me. The shiny intro of the Mini saw me getting one to experiment with OS X – and discovering how easy it made life around my home network.

My last PC sat gathering dust until I gave it away to a friend a year ago.

He forgave me.

By: mike sanders

mike sanders — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:13:45 +0000

This is a typical “headline” comment designed to catch your eye, if it was reversed as the earlier poster pointed out it would not be interesting. I have never walked on the dark side had macs since 1988 and have finally converted all of my family,we have four macs at home and my 4 year old grandson is already hands on. We are spread all over the world and the macs make it so easy to communicate both video and chat.
Now all moving into iphone, wow what an experience I was the last to dump my blackberry because of the contract. I have only had the iphone one month and I am besotted.
Go Apple Go Steve. leaders not followers.

By: David

David — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:17:49 +0000

My wife and I share a Mac mini, the kids share a G4 and we have the last of my PCs (November 2001) to run Windows stuff. Once everyone is trained to use VirtualBox the big beige box can go and we’ll be Mac only.

My wife doesn’t like it, but I currently have four old Macs from the 1987-1999 era collecting dust in the basement.

By: Twist

Twist — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:54:44 +0000

I have never owned a PC but my Mac does run Windows a few hours each week ;)

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:40:36 +0000

I assume that they count in people changing from PC to Mac. But as many said before, household is the keyword.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:11:22 +0000

http://emptysodacan.blogspot.com/2009/10/secondhand-data.html

By: James

James — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:58:17 +0000

“Household” is the key word, as several others have noted, and it would be a mistake to replace it with “owners”, as the article title does. Besides the fact that people often keep their old computers as backups or out of sheer procrastination (I’ve still got an old Compaq that I still have from my pre-Mac days, mostly because I’m too lazy to plug it back in and format the hard drive), different people have different preferences, and households, as collections of people, collect their different preferences.

Take my future household, for example. I’m a Mac user by preference, and if I had it my way, I would have only Macs in the house just out of preference. My girlfriend, despite using a Mac at her office in her work as a newspaper editor, still doesn’t really like them. She doesn’t like Windows either, but it’s what she’s got the most experience with, so she sticks with it. I don’t see her switching any time soon, and so if I were to answer a call such as this, I, as a Mac user, would be forced to answer honestly as being a mixed household.

By: Mulder

Mulder — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:56:48 +0000

I can say with certainty that 85% of Mac owners do not have a PC. The rather narrow sampling of this poll and the fact that no details are provided on exactly how it was done or the specific questions asked, and of whom make it meaningless.

You need to find better information than such dubious surveys; this makes you look no better than the Gartner Group, or Rob Enderle.

By: Ian Bell

Ian Bell — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:31:48 +0000

This probably indicates that a disproportionately high number of Apple fans actually work in the tech industry, thereby obviating the need/desire for multiple machines.

Few people buy the Mac Pro. When you need a desktop, you just buy the disposable Dell.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:10:22 +0000

Are these separate PC’s or are Mac owners stating that their Apple computer is both a Mac and a PC, because that is how I look at it. I frequently boot in to Windows to run my Garmin MobilePC software, or check my PPt presentations are Windows compatible. The rest of the time I use Fusion.

By: Adam Jackson

Adam Jackson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:09:05 +0000

I’m in there too. I have a PC to power my television.