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1 posted on 11/07/2005 7:54:15 PM PST by Swordmaker

To: Bush2000; antiRepublicrat; Action-America; eno_; Glenn; gmill; BigFinn; backslacker; Brian Allen; ..

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.

2 posted on 11/07/2005 7:55:21 PM PST by Swordmaker (Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs.)

"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".

7 posted on 11/07/2005 8:06:18 PM PST by Senator Bedfellow

Dell delivers 150,000 PCs every day.

11 posted on 11/07/2005 8:19:39 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)

I want an Ipod with an incredible battery.

20 posted on 11/07/2005 8:33:14 PM PST by lawgirl (Sure I believe in intelligent design. The best accident we've come up with is Mary in grilled cheese)

I'm sure IBM is a big fan still!

22 posted on 11/07/2005 8:36:21 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)

I switched to Mac this year because of security issues with Windows.

25 posted on 11/08/2005 4:53:16 AM PST by Ticonderoga34

Not me, I'm afraid.

Cuz I made the switch in 2003.

27 posted on 11/08/2005 6:33:22 AM PST by jalisco555 ("The right to bear weapons is the right to be free." A. E. Van Vogt)

Ipod switchers and people who don't like virii.

29 posted on 11/08/2005 6:39:03 AM PST by Tribune7

If the rumors about a $398 hp laptop at walmart are true I might buy my first PC in over a decade. I've purchase macs for my own personal use over that same time but have purchased a Dell for a charity organization I work with.

I'm working on getting an MS in computer science and find it difficult to use my Macs for class work. The first problem being getting up to date Java. Sun doesn't provide Java for Macs, Apple does it in house. Apple will only update Java for whatever is the latest OS. And Java is a big component of most of my classes and they love to use all the latest widgets in 1.5. Thus I'm screwed.

Secondly the various architecture and OS classes often require simulators and interpreters that only run on PCs. A few years ago I had to use the university's lab to work on projects that used a Motorola processor interpreter that only ran on PCs! The irony!!!!

I do like the new iMacs and will probably replace my DP 500Mhz G4 with an Intel iMac next year. Perhaps I'll use the G4 to run Yellowdog Linux.

31 posted on 11/08/2005 7:25:07 AM PST by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)

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

Most of those people probably aren't "converts" - they are using both systems simultaneously.

32 posted on 11/08/2005 7:26:48 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves (Speaking several languages is an asset; keeping your mouth shut in one is priceless.)

33 posted on 11/08/2005 7:42:55 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)

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