macworld.co.uk — ...it's the future that truly represents the change. A total of 28% of respondents who plan to purchase a laptop in the next 90 days say they'll get a Mac. An additional 23% say they'll buy a desktop Mac. "This serves as powerful evidence that the 'halo effect' is indeed translating into real world Mac computer sales
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superkendallAug 22, 2007
The answer was that you could have just used Parallels or Fusion to run Windows software until you realized you didn't need it anymore... the Mac has a thriving shareware market as well you know, and quite a lot of great commercial software. Lack of games is always the biggest issue but for that I use consoles, or now Bootcamp (via which you can play Bioshock on a Mac).
cardsAug 22, 2007
Exactly. I remember when flat screen TVs were just coming around, statistics showed that a huge percentage of people said they would buy one when they purchased their next TV. Then businesses were confused when they couldn't sell flat screen TVs for a few thousand dollars when all of these people said they'd buy them. People kid themselves all the time about what they're *going to* do.
lemonAug 23, 2007
I bought a Mac when I found out that ALL new laptops were coming with Vista preinstalled when I just wanted XP, and that it would cost me another $500(NZ) to get them to put XP on. I know I could just do that s**t myself, but what ever happened to a customer having choice?Anyway, I use XP Pro at work all day now, and it drives me nuts not being able to use OSX. And I was a loooong time windows junkie. Anyway... 28% does not make it the standard, but the original post does say BECOMING... so meh.
techmaster7bAug 23, 2007
Buried as inaccurate, see egroeggnik's comment. Besides, if this atricle were accurate, it would only further prove that there are even more stupid people in the world. If you build a computer for idiots, only idiots will want to use it.
jduleyAug 23, 2007
I just dugg you down and now I feel great!
mrbitchAug 25, 2007
the reason for that is that VISTA is NOT Longhorn !The Longhorn project was cancelled - and microsoft ( in their wisdom ) just decided to hack up windows 2003 server code base instead.This is something most people who were trialling Longhorn know all too well - but microsoft has kept this fact very very quiet.
mrbitchAug 25, 2007
the fact that Apple Macs can run windows is the main reason I bought one - I thought there would be some apps that I would need to run under windows as I was told that OSX software choice is quite small. But after installing windows via Boot Camp - I haven't booted into windows for over 4 months now - everything I did in windows I can do in OSX ( in fact ripping and re-encoding DVD movies is actually FASTER under OSX on my macbook than it was on my desktop windows PC )
vermifaxAug 28, 2007
Any Fortune 500 company will disagree with you wholeheartedly, you paper-route, basement-dweller.