Barrier to Mac Adoption Finally Broken?

OTOH, I just bought an Intel Mac mini, but have not set up the windoze crap yet. Several of the travel agency sites require the use of windoze, so I decided it was the best way to skin the cat. I just hate the idea of gving any credence to Gates and company, when I already use the best system on the market.

The easiest way to use websites that want Internet Explorer is to get Safari Enhancer. and then set the "user agent" in the debug menu to "Windows MSIE 6.0" and the website will think its talking to a Windows computer and most things work fine.

Safari Enhancer also gives you some neat tab handling features....

The Macintosh business may be small relative to the totality of the PC business, but revenues are high and customers perhaps the world's most loyal.

Macs aren't going away any time soon, and the OS and hardware are both getting radically better at the same time the Windows platform has been stagnating.

That may change somewhat with Windows Vista, but the beta doesn't seem to have set the world on fire. Most reviews have been tepid at best, savage at worst.

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If not for IPOD income feeding the Apple company income, the computers division IMO would have sunk already.

Exactly what part of the following facts do you fail to understand?

. . . For every 75,000 Macs sold, Apple earns $100 million in revenue (not including attach rates for software, service, and peripherals), while every 500,000 iPods equates to approximately $100 million in revenue, according to the firm. . . .

Apple sold ~4,750,000 computers in 2005... and this year sales numbers are up 37%. If, as the above quote states, Apple earns $100 million per 75,000 Macs sold, then that translates into 63.3 times $100,000,000, or $6,333,000,000 ... that's a little over SIX BILLION DOLLARS in sales reveunes from Macs. Apple sold ~37 million iPods in 2005... which translates into 74 times $100,000,000 or $7,400,000,000 in sales... which looks impressive and is... but the profit MARGIN on Macs is much higher than the profit margin on iPods. Profits are far higher from Mac sales than from iPod sales.

As I mentioned, Mac sales are UP 37% this year over last... and 2005 Mac sales were up 28% over 2004 sales... and iPod sales are projected to level off. If the figures are correct, then Mac sales could top 6.5 million and earnings over 8 billion dollars just from Macs.

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