There Seems to Be More Mac Users Lately

Amie · #1 November 8th, 2007, 07:34 PM

I was going to post this in the Miscellaneous section but, apparently, there isn't one anymore, sooooo...

Is it just me or are you all seeing more and more Mac users every day? Seems like every time I go out to public hotspots, there are way more people with Apple computers than there used to be. Used to be coffeehouses all full of people with clunky-ass PCs (I was one of them) ... and they would all be fighting over the outlets because PCs' batteries only last about, what, an hour? LOL

Seriously though, there do seem to be more Mac users. What do you guys think?

**ScottW** · #2 November 8th, 2007, 08:08 PM

Well, it is true... that the Mac market share is growing, especially when it comes to the portable figures. It makes sense that you are seeing more. I don't frequent any hot spots, so I can't vouch for locally, but indeed it is a positive trend.

SatCure · #3 November 9th, 2007, 04:05 AM

Definitely increasing. I see it on general discussion forums. Used to be that I'd see a question like "how do I import movies from a camcorder?" and I would (tongue in cheek) reply "easy, just launch iMovie." That would usually start a torrent of abuse from the OP who was obviously a Windows user. But now I often get "Uh, thanks. Of course. Hadn't even noticed it was installed!"

nixgeek · #4 November 9th, 2007, 08:49 AM

It seems that since the Intel switch that a lot of people are purchasing Macs. I wonder if it has to do a lot with the fact that they can still run Windows on their Intel Macs (probably mainly through Parallels) which makes it much easier to transition from Windows to Mac OS X. I had never seen this number of people switch over before the Intel switch.

icemanjc · #5 November 9th, 2007, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Amie

I was going to post this in the Miscellaneous section but, apparently, there isn't one anymore, sooooo...

Is it just me or are you all seeing more and more Mac users every day? Seems like every time I go out to public hotspots, there are way more people with Apple computers than there used to be. Used to be coffeehouses all full of people with clunky-ass PCs (I was one of them) ... and they would all be fighting over the outlets because PCs' batteries only last about, what, an hour? LOL

Seriously though, there do seem to be more Mac users. What do you guys think?

I've seen it to, most of my friends have macbooks.

**Giaguara** · #6 November 9th, 2007, 02:35 PM

And about half of the people at my work (using PCs as main platform, half use native Windows and half use Windows as a Workstation virtual machine under Linux) are thinking of getting one .. or have one.
It's also interesting that before the Intel switch, there were so many mac zealots out there who were loudly screaming that they would never touch Windows. And now they have Boot Camp, Fusion, or Parallels and are running Windows...
Can't wait to have a proper Mac OS X Server running in Workstation

nixgeek · #7 November 9th, 2007, 03:07 PM

GIa, they prbably wouldn't have touched Windows back in the day because the only options were:

Buy a PC and run Windows
Run Windows slowly under emulation on PPC

The third issue is that Windows XP either didn't exist or wasn't mature enough. Then again, there was Windows 2000 but end users weren't really using that version.

Mikuro · #8 November 9th, 2007, 09:03 PM

I think most of the people who said they'd never use Windows still don't. I doubt many Mac users who don't need to use Windows (like for their job) use it at all.

When I get an Intel Mac, I probably will install some version of Windows eventually. Right now I have Windows 98 on Virtual PC. It's on a DVD somewhere. A few times a year I fish it out to test some apps I've made with REALbasic for Windows users. I imagine I'll use Windows in Parallels in the same, limited capacity. It just won't crush my soul quite as much as it does in Virtual PC.