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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 4953819" data-attributes="member: 2525">And to all those &quot;I have a Mac, why didn't WOTC make it for a Mac&quot; folks...Out comes this news (thanks to PWD for this):85% of mac users also own a PC<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5374499/almost-nobody-owns-just-macs" target="_blank">Link</a>NPD's Household Penetration Study found a 3% uptick in Mac households for 2009. This makes sense! What's surprising (or not) is that of the 12% of homes with a Mac, less than 2% are Mac-exclusive.The 2% figure is extrapolated from NPD's less direct assessment:At first glance, these stats almost seem wrong, but when you start think about it, they make sense: The survey polled &quot;households,&quot; which, on account of grandma's Compaq or your roommate's gaming PC, clobbers the exclusivity figure. (I live in what any reasonable person would call a &quot;Mac household&quot;—three people who use Macs almost exclusively—but that little Acer netbook sitting on the table means we're not.)Plus, PCs are cheap and they linger, and Macs, being pricier, tend to find their way into richer households, where more than one computer is almost a given. That, combined the fact that most Macs sold are laptops, and therefore a little more likely to be a supplemental computer, makes the 2% figure look a little less crazy, but still, 2%? Fanboys, you're slacking.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 4953819, member: 2525"] And to all those "I have a Mac, why didn't WOTC make it for a Mac" folks... Out comes this news (thanks to PWD for this): [SIZE="4"] 85% of mac users also own a PC[/SIZE] [URL="http://gizmodo.com/5374499/almost-nobody-owns-just-macs"]Link[/URL] NPD's Household Penetration Study found a 3% uptick in Mac households for 2009. This makes sense! What's surprising (or not) is that of the 12% of homes with a Mac, [B]less than 2% are Mac-exclusive[/B]. The 2% figure is extrapolated from NPD's less direct assessment: At first glance, these stats almost seem wrong, but when you start think about it, they make sense: The survey polled "households," which, on account of grandma's Compaq or your roommate's gaming PC, clobbers the exclusivity figure. (I live in what any reasonable person would call a "Mac household"—three people who use Macs almost exclusively—but that little Acer netbook sitting on the table means we're not.) Plus, PCs are cheap and they linger, and Macs, being pricier, tend to find their way into richer households, where more than one computer is almost a given. That, combined the fact that most Macs sold are laptops, and therefore a little more likely to be a supplemental computer, makes the 2% figure look a little less crazy, but still, 2%? Fanboys, you're slacking. [/QUOTE]

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