“...fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me… you can’t get fooled again.“ - Bushie

My money is on Dvorak. He secretly loves the mac and visits often. Forbidden fruit I guess.

I’ve been reading Mac360 for about 2 years, perhaps 3, and usually do so on Windows.  LIke the premise of the article, I use a Mac at home and Windows at work, however as the owner of the company, Windows was my choice, and remains so, for that environment.

Like most people, I guess that I do most of my web-browsing at work, as home is the time for family and fun.  Since Apple has very low penetration in business, I would imagine that you will keep gaining more in Windows browser hits even though the people doing the browsing are Mac users when they get home at night.

I’m a jack of all trades user. I use Windows XP, Vista, Ubuntu Linux, and plan on buying a Macbook in the near future. Basically as soon as Leopard launches. Not exactly a switcher per se.

I don’t know, I rather enjoyed using Windows for the past couple of years (Since XP).

3.1/3.11 was okay, but the “Ta-da!“ upon loading lock ups really got to me back then. I hope I wasn’t the only one that had Windows lock up with the looping “ta-da!“ sound event blasting through the speakers.

95/98 had their moments, but when they crashed, they crashed and burned.

Windows ME was the equivalent of shodilly patched up Stanley Steemer that was in a horrible car crash with a semi. You just looked at it funny, and it just started to fall apart before your eyes. The first time I’ve ever witnessed an OS requiring a “Warm-up” period. O_o (Friend’s ME box froze if he didn’t wait 10 minutes after loading ME; yeah, I don’t know either)

XP, although having a rough start with exploits and vulnerabilities, has been truly stable for me. SP2 was one of the single most important updates to Windows in a long while. One thing I noticed was that BSoDs didn’t occur on my end at all. At that point, the last time I encountered a BSoD was in 98 (I never even touched ME, just witnessed it’s horror on a friend’s computer)

Vista so far has been a good experience for me, and it isn’t as annoying to me as many people say it is. Then again, I’d rather the OS nag me about opening unknown executable files than risk infecting my system by mistake. I’m used to Superuser prompts in Linux, so it wasn’t that much of a change for me.

But just because I’ve enjoyed Windows in recent years doesn’t mean I don’t want a Mac. I keep salivating at the Macbook line each time I visit Apple.com.

Hopefully if things go as planned, I’ll have a Macbook by June. I’m saving up my money as we speak.

I expect the looking “ta-da” is why Brian Eno was brought in to do sounds for Windows 95. That rather disappointed me, but I will still listen to Another Green World, Before and After Science, and plenty more. With Eno pals U2 backing Apple and the iPod, Microsoft left Eno behind for his most famous collaborator, Robert Fripp, on Vista. Even that didn’t stop me from digitizing 70% of my analog King Crimson catalog over the last few weeks.

It is truly amazing what a little sound can do, though. That’s why my Mac is usually on mute, never mind the horrid “ding” of a reminder in Outlook at work (where I have never surfed a single page that was not work-related) that made me mute that in a heartbeat.

For over a half year I am looking at mac-related sites, I am going to switch.

Iqor

iqor - 21 April 2007 03:45 AM

For over a half year I am looking at mac-related sites, I am going to switch.

Iqor

The same with me. I’m just getting all the information i can on which Mac is the best solution for my needs (and financially speaking). Well it’s no wonder that Pc-people look for an alterntive to their Windows-machines…I’m one of them!

kolavec - 19 May 2007 09:52 AM

The same with me. I’m just getting all the information i can on which Mac is the best solution for my needs (and financially speaking). Well it’s no wonder that Pc-people look for an alterntive to their Windows-machines…I’m one of them!

The same for me, too. I lurked around the Mac oriented sites for many months, picked out a few favorites because of their information and lack of zealotry (Mac 360), finally bought a Mac and haven’t looked back at Windows.

This is great.

I check MacUpdate regularly, read DaringFireball, and, of course, MacSurfer.

Uptick due to: wannabees fed up with doing more maintenance than computing and are searching for alternatives; spurred on by Apple’s switch to Intel chips and the Mac’s ability to run Windows via Boot Camp or Parallels.

For the large number of Windows at work/Macs at home folks, Mac360 probably provides a little bit of Mac love in their Windows world at work. I would bet that’s a big chunk of the Windows stats.

BTW, I went back over the quarterly report numbers and by my calculations, there will be about 2 MILLION Macs bought this year by people “new to the Mac”. I know, kind of a gray term, but that’s what they use.

There probably isn’t an easy explanation, but i suspect that with the switch to intel chips there are more windows users exploring the possibility of switching, and there are more people buying macs and probably as such exploring these sites from home and work, where they most likely have a PC.  I personally have been using Apple hardware since the Apple][e.  So I am not a switcher and as such my opinion is biased.