knee-jerk 90

[Sarah Reichelt]

Where do you live Viktoras? Here in Australia the "Macs are more
expensive" myth has been debunked for years now, provided one compares
machines with similar specs.

As an amusing sideline to this thread, CNET is running a poll asking
when people plan to switch to Vista:
<http://news.com.com/Vista+steals+the+show/2100-1016_3-6154632.html>

The poll is still open, but here are the results to date:

How soon do you plan to move to Microsoft's latest OS?
I'm sticking with the Mac--or moving there soon. 	50.8%
Windows XP is going to last me a good, long time. 	20.9%
Whenever I buy my next PC. 	20.8%
I'm standing in line right now to buy it. 	7.5%
Total votes: 13540

Cheers,
Sarah


On 2/2/07, Viktoras Didziulis <viktoras at ekoinf.net> wrote:
> August 14 2006:
>
> 1. Windows XP 86.80%
> 2. Windows 2000 6.09%
> 3. Windows 98 2.68%
> 4. Macintosh 2.32%
> 5. Windows ME 1.09%
> 6. Linux 0.36%
> 7. Windows NT 0.24%
> 8. Macintosh Power PC 0.15%
>
> Source:
> www.onestat.com
>
> Indeed, I know only a few design firms nearby that use Apples. Everywhere
> else (shops, firms, schools, university) Windows and Linux only. Simply
> because Macs are so expensive... I am still dreaming about buying one ;-). I
> have used Apple once, in an international conference on multimedia tools...
> No one from people I know own Apple. Once I asked at the university about
> availability of Macintosh computer and the answer was - a friend of friend
> of mine has it... Situation in the USA of course may be quite different (in
> favor of Macs) from Europe or the rest of the world. But when we speak about
> an ordinary desktop user its Windows by default...
>
> Best wishes
> Viktoras
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Stephen Barncard
> Date: 2007.02.01 23:14:19
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: RevSpeak - a little less robotic?
>
> I hear that knee-jerk 90% figure mentioned all the time. I don't
> think it's accurate anymore.
>
> Anyway, many of that 90% are CNC drilling machines, point of sale
> terminals and imbedded systems, not desktops.
>
> Does anybody have REAL, documented, unbiased platform numbers?
>
>
> >Well, what comparable possibilities do we have in the remaining 90% of the
> >world (e.g. Windows)?
> >V.
> >
>
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> stephen barncard
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