Posted on 06/30/2017 1:20:52 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Has Microsoft finally caught up to Apple? The latest reviews of Microsoft’s new laptops hint that Apple’s cachet (and price points) may be wearing thin among consumers. Verto Analytics conducted a Smart Poll of current Windows owners (among U.S. adults, ages 18 and above) and asked them if they planned to buy an Apple as their next computer (either laptop or desktop) in the next 6-24 months. We also asked current Mac owners about their intentions to switch to a Windows machine within the next 6-24 months.
Windows Owners Are More Likely to Make a Switch to Mac
According to the results of the Verto Smart Poll, nearly all (98% or more) current Mac owners intend to stay with Macs as their next computer. However, nearly 21% of current Windows laptop owners and 25% of current Windows desktop owners responded that they intend to switch to a Mac within the next six months. And of those current Windows owners, consumers in the upper income bracket (those with an average income of $150,000 or more) showed the highest likelihood of switching to a Mac: 20% of respondents intended to switch. Lower income groups (those making $20,000 or less annually) also report higher probability of switching to Mac: about 14% of these respondents intended to switch. However, a further drilldown shows that these lower income respondents are also in their teens or twenties, suggesting parental assistance.
There’s more operating systems out there than these two guys nowadays.
And I HATE Windows 10.
BING sucks!! And Cortana annoys the #### out of me
It’s like having a nagging girlfriend. :)
AND they charged me 20 bucks so I could watch DVDs!!!
It was ALWAYS free.
Those ####s.
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Not me. Tried using a Mac for a few months and hated it.
I just love these religious threads. /sarc
I have 10 on all my pc’s. I don’t love it but I don’t hate it.
Why did you pay $20 bucks to watch DVD’s?
I turned Coratana off and Bing is just as fine as any other search engine.
I paid under $300 for this laptop I’m on. I can edit photos, recode movies and do everything else I need to. Why pay a grand for a Mac?
Study statistics are flawed. The average replacement timeframe is greater than every 6-24 months. That’s what is killing personal computer manufacturers today.
With the pay as you go Windows and Office 10 business model, the life cycle cost differential between Apple and IBM-based machines has now closed considerably.
My family has three relatively new IBM-based computers (two large screen desktops and a touchscreen laptop) that are primarily used as Internet access devices. Everyone of them is going to be replaced in the next 3 to 4 years with an Apple equivalent as they reach their individual points of performance failure (technological or physical).
Then there are the security issues.
I’m running Windows 10 and quite happy with it.
I had run Linux for almost 10 years at home. However with the last update of Windows I switched over, and have not regretted it.
Of course, you may like Apple. Just saying, some of us are quite happy with Windows.
So some of the users, may switch the other direction.
:D
“And I HATE Windows 10. BING sucks!! And Cortana annoys the #### out of me. AND they charged me 20 bucks so I could watch DVDs!!!”
Windows 10 is the worst. The Explore file manager is insane. Desktop tiles flipping and flopping all over the place. What’s up with that? Kids might like it, I guess. Too many horrible features to write. Through Amazon I bought a small netbook laptop with Windows 7 on it and use that more than the new expensive HP laptop with 10.
I disabled Cortana. Why do you have to pay to watch DVDs?
It’s just a tool, man.
Windows, Mac, Linux. I deal with them all day long in my work. Each have their strengths. I personally prefer the Mac. My 4 year old laptop runs just as well now as when it was brand new. Never had that experience with a Windows machine.
That said, I make my living with Windows servers.
I did IT work as govt employee for 13 years for the USG, at DOD and US Dept of State. At State you literally learn job (over a dozen) that an Army Signal Battalion. Having seen both operating systems along with all the functionally of servers and using several other O/S’s.... I hardly evvery go to the computer anymore after getting the Smart Phone. Especially (religion) LG phones and the current LG V20 riding on the back of a Samsung Edge S6. Once you can swap out batteries.... it ended the PC boggie. Now LG just needs a Hot-Swappable Battery.
Also an “age thing” I think...when I was young I had more time than money (time to do “home built” PC’s, diagnose, upgrade, etc.), as I got older I have more $ than time and don’t have time to mess with the MS BS....updates, viruses, slow downs, and other “maintenance” (i.e. msconfig.exe). After 20+ years of MS-DOS/Windows (I left when Win 8 came out), I switched to Mac and am very happy that “It Just Works”. I admit that I do still have a pretty powerful Win 7 “home-brew” machine around for a few Windows games, but I boot it less and less as I find more iOS and MacOS games.
I got my iMac in 2007 and it runs just as good as out of the box. In a his case, you get what you pay for.
I'm thinking of building a LINUX machine with VM to run Windows for the few things we still require Windows apps for.
The Win 7 machine I'm on now is about 7 years old and no telling when it may decide to do that final crash.
LOL! "Parental assistance" must mean "daddy's money".
If not that, then they must mean that these teens are relying on their parents for advice on a selecting a computer/device. I find that very hard to believe!
LOL! "Parental assistance" must mean "daddy's money”.However, a further drilldown shows that these lower income respondents are also in their teens or twenties, suggesting parental assistance.
I noticed that statement, too - but I thought about Thomas Sowell’s point that the “bottom quintile of income” so beloved of “liberals” is loaded with young people just starting out.So much so that more people who were in the bottom quintile ten years ago are now in the top quintile than are still in the bottom quintile. Sowell pointed out that some of that effect is created by counting June grads who only get half a year’s income in their first job.
“The Win 7 machine I’m on now is about 7 years old and no telling when it may decide to do that final crash. “
Probably ransom ware. You are having unprotected browsing with Win 7.
I was in Costco last week. Cruised by the computer display.
There , was a shiny new 13” laptop, a Dell IIRC, $1300. Wow, for that I could buy a nice MacBook!
Love my 2012 MacBook Pro I bought used in order to get high end machine that has it all.
Hate to thought of going back to a PC, but.
OTOH I’m really pi$$ed at Apple. Why?
They took a wonderful machine, the MacBook , and stripped it of its usefulness. All in the name of esthetics.
Want to run a DVD? gotta buy a separate optical drive and lug it around.
Want to check your camera SD card? More peripheral hardware.
Want to plug in a USB device? Thumb drive? Again, more stuff.
Trip over the power cord? Oops ! What happened to Magsafe?
So you end up with a skinny, pretty portable machine and a backpack full of adapters and drives.
Guess they expect you to put your life in ‘The Cloud’ and download as needed.
Not me.
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