[Ham-Mac] PERCENT MAC USERS AMONG HAMS

[Fred Stevens K2FRD]

At 12:23 -0600 04/02/2002, James Johnson wrote:
>
>Hello:
>	There is a big difference between "installed user" percentage 
>and "new computer sales".  Only about 5% of new computer purchases 
>are Macintosh compatible computers according to the stats, but about 
>16% (according to the old stats) of computer users use Macintosh 
>compatibles.  The percentage of Macintosh users may have gone up 
>since then.  Most people do not understand the difference...We 
>Macintosh operating system users get more life out of our computers 
>because we do not have to buy a new computer every year or two like 
>the Windows users do.  I just bought an Apple 7500 about a month ago 
>that has an upgrade card in it that makes it the roughly, or not so 
>roughly, the equal of an Apple 7600.  Before I bought that computer 
>I was using an Apple Quadra 700 -- that is a 68040 based computer. 
>Developers should be pleasantly suprised by software sales if the 
>software is good if they think that only 5% of computers use the 
>Macintosh operating system.
>James
>kc5jpz

I mentioned that my survey wasn't particularly scientific. Since I 
sent out my first message, I received 14 hits on my Website. Mac 
users accounted for nine while Windows had only five, raising my Mac 
hits by almost a full percentage point. FWIW, of those 14, MSIE5 was 
11; MSIE4 was one; poor old Netscape 4 was used by only two (anyone 
ever try Opera?). Thanks to all for leaving your cookies turned on!

I had never heard the statistic that 16% or so of all computer users 
were Macs; I belong to several Mac user groups/eLists and subscribe 
to The Mac Observer, but had never read this figure although I have 
long suspected it. It certainly seems logical for the reasons cited 
by James : we Mac-heads squeeze out a lot more life out of our "old" 
machine because we can more easily (and more cheaply) upgrade them. I 
have a IIvx on standby, but my "good" machine is a PM 7300, upgraded 
to a G3/400 with 368MB (cheap) RAM. I'm not ready for a new G4/1GHZ 
yet.

73 de Fred
K2FRD

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=46red Stevens K2FRD

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