Most Mac Owners Also Own a Windows PC, But Not Vice Versa

Barence writes "More than eight out of ten Mac owners also own a PC, according to a new piece of research. The NPD survey found that 12% of US computer-owning households have a Mac. However, 85% of those also own a Windows PC, suggesting that the Mac/PC divide is nowhere near as clear cut as both Apple and Microsoft suggest. Mac owners are also far more likely to have multiple computers in the house. Two thirds of Mac owners have three or more computers in the home, while only 29% of PC owners have two or more PCs."

Comments

not here!

[mah!]

several machines, but no Windows on any of them, thank you so very much.

Re:Here's why

[jedidiah]

If you have a suitably powerful Mac, there is no reason to run another
machine just to run some Windows software. The same goes for if you are
a Linux user. Short of running some game that can't run inside of a VM,
another PC is redundant.

Re:Here's why

[node 3]

The problem with the "specs games" that Apple fanboys like to play is the fact that a PC doesn't restrict you to one spec. One PC brand wont even do that.

Um, no, because that's only the argument that "PC fanboys" like to make after their initial argument, that Macs are more expensive but just use the same hardware, is disproved.

*For the same hardware*, Macs are almost always cheaper. Your argument is that PCs offer more choice. That is true, but it's a completely different argument.

No, that's not it

[fyngyrz]

It's not the hardware. It's OSX, and the applications that run under OSX. The hardware is nice, sure, but it really isn't the point -- computing is the point.

I use linux, windows and OSX every day, and it is Apple/OSX I've chosen for my main workhorse, hands down. If I need windows or linux, I just run them concurrently in virtual machines under Parallels.