Over 1 million Windows to Mac converts so far in 2005?

AppleInsider ^ | 11/7/2005 | By Kasper Jade

[Swordmaker]

Windows switchers account for more than 1,000,000 Mac purchases in 2005?

PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[cyborg]

Count me in.

[softwarecreator]

Wow.  Only a few hundred million to go and they will become competitive in the marketplace.

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

Me Toooo!

[cyborg]

I have a huge Dell desktop in front of me and a Dell laptop, one is now a glorified music/DVD player and my laptop is unused. I really do like my macintosh better. I'm not suprised at the number of converts given the popularity of the ipod.

[Senator Bedfellow]

"If we assume that all of the growth in Mac shipments during the past three quarters resulted from Windows users purchasing a Mac..."

"...and let us further assume that said purchasers were all lefthanded Armenian dental hygienists..."

According to checks with Apple Store Specialists...

The plural of "anecdote" is not "data".

[H. Paul Pressler IV]

I had an iPod first and then bought an iBook around a month ago.

I like it, but is a little strange, almost like driving a car in London.

[Utopia]

Not surprised. I predict the number will be higher once LongHorn (Vista) ships. Have first hand experience with MS testing inadequacies on that particular product.

[Utopia]

Jobs is pretty arrogant and not my model of a CEO. Gates is pretty delusional and not my ideal, either. But, for all the $ MS gets for its products, you'd expect them to be perfect by now. They're not. Far from it.

[js1138]

Dell delivers 150,000 PCs every day.

[softwarecreator]

They're not. Far from it.

I agree with you on that.  I have become very unhappy with some of their policies and OS's lately myself.

[Utopia]

Dell delivers 150,000 PCs every day.

And those machines are absolute crap.

[softwarecreator]

LongHorn (Vista) ships. Have first hand experience with MS testing inadequacies on that particular product.

Really?  I have an MSDN subscription but haven't used Vista yet.  Just don't feel up to it I guess, getting burned out on "new" software.  What don't you like about it?

[softwarecreator]

And those machines are absolute crap.

Come on now.  That's not true.  I like my Dell's a lot.  Which ones do you think aren't crap?

[Utopia]

Do NOT bother to update to Vista. You will be astronished as to how bad it really is. It is NOT worth the aggrevation.

[softwarecreator]

You will be astronished as to how bad it really is. It is NOT worth the aggrevation.

See.  That's exactly why I've resisted installing it.  I don't need another letdown.  I like Win 2000 a lot.  Win Xp is okay but can be unstable.  I am not a big fan of Win 2003 either.

[Utopia]

MS uses a lot of Dells in their machine labs. You can't get within 10% test results on the same test on 2 identically spec'd Dells. I remember the old days when anything outside 5% was very, very, bad. They accept > 10% deviation as the norm. Part is the crappy machines (inconsistent builds on the part of Dell), part is the OS. The same OS on the same machine type should behave similarly. Not so.

[papertyger]

I had an iPod first and then bought an iBook around a month ago.

I like it, but is a little strange, almost like driving a car in London.

I find the biggest problem for 'switchers' is when something doesn't work they way they expect it to, they freeze for fear of messing it up worse.

That's actually damn near impossible to do. I haven't had a problem I couldn't fix by monkeying around with it, yet.

[lawgirl]

I want an Ipod with an incredible battery.