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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Rasputin" data-source="post: 3776119" data-attributes="member: 8410">IME, not many. I've worked ISP tech support and been a personal computer consultant, so I've actually handled folks who have multiple setups, and they are decidedly in the minority. Most of the Mac users to whom I spoke (I was the Mac guy) were typically artist types -- we had others, but they rarely called support. The mom and pop calling was almost always Windows. And your college kids? They have one computer, period, and they don't have the money or the space for more. They're prime DDI fodder (almost all colleges have hard-wired Internet to dorms), and Macs are more common with them than in most other circles there due to Apple's historic presence in education circles.There is another problem with the two box question, which is that it gentrifies the market. Folks who own both a Mac and a Wintel box have more money than those who do not. Granted, Mac folks do tend to make a bit more moolah than Windows folks (an argument in favor of Mac support), but in my experience, folks stick with one platform and keep moving their software from computer to computer. Having to buy new versions of your software because you traded your Mac for a Windows box is rarely high on the desire scale for most folks, so this inertia keeps out switchers and two computer owners. I know aiming at the money isn't a terrible idea from a business standpoint, but even D&D players aren't *that* rich (I'd bet they do have more disposable income than US averages), and a big percentage of them are not.Personally, I don't have an issue about supporting Windows first, so long as it's Windows first and not only. With Boot Camp/Parallels running on Intel Macs, I can see waiting six months to a year for Mac support, but eventually, what Charles pointed out will happen, and that will limit DDI growth.Having said that, I shall ruffle a few feathers and come across as a Mac bigot when I mention that I wouldn't worry at all about Linux support. For them, what Scott said is mostly true -- most Linux folks have Windows around, often on the same machine.</blockquote>

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