Yes, it's almost like I was replacing a plain name with one that's more derogative, you genius you.

So, wait, let's just break down these numbers:

Macs sold for 20% of the Market.

Macs took 35% of the Market Revenue in that.

35 / 20 = 1.75% of Revenue per 1% of Market Share
65 / 80 = 0.8125% of Revenue per 1% of Market Share

Now, I'm known for making stupid errors, but that is clearly why Steve Jobs is laughing to the bank. According to the claims of this article, his stuff costs over twice as much. Yet no one commented on this? Well, minus people saying that Macs aren't much more expensive, but the article itself kinda disagrees with you.

err...just cause you have a mac you don't need to run Mac os. I'm willing to bet that over 50% of those macs have windows installed on them as well.

So selling a mac is jsut like selling a pc laptop...a potential windows customer.

I think he's trying to say that most people graduate college before they go pull down $100k per year and buy a midtown condo.

Why would sales of Macs to wealthy professionals surge when school starts?

Thanks for getting that ball rolling, though. I was concerned that the flamewar might not start.

well fellow mac users and haters (the latter being the far more vocal of the two)

Does anyone know how many watts a macbook battery charger uses? because if it's over 25, I'm screwed.

@stof

i dont think its so much that we're vocal about it, its more that the "elitism" of certain mac users bugs us.

as for the battery charger -

http://www.welovemacs.com/battuchgblc.html

provided that's a proper replacement (says a replacement for macbook, macbook pro, other models) for yours, then that one uses 45 watts power. its 10.8V if that matters.

hope that helps

Hmm, perhaps this is because of the well-known lack of "low end" Mac models? 

Indeed. Note how the article urges Apple to introduce a model in the "Small, Cheap Computer sector."

meet the mac mini, i got one back in the day for 499, and it makes a great file server, and had an ati fx card, overclocked the sucker and added a new hd and 3rd party ram. 

There's no where near that many Mac users running Windows. Try 1-10% at most. The standard Macbooks, which make up the bulk of Apple laptop sales, don't even run Windows all that well (at least not Vista). 

And I think a lot of people in this thread are trying to pit OS against OS when Apple doesn't really give a shit at this point. They have little desire to dethrone Windows. They have even been advertising that their Macbook Pros run Vista exceptionally well. Apple's more concerned with selling as much hardware as possible at a premium price. That's where the money's at. They've very astutely decided to align themselves with MS rather than outright compete with them. That's why you have stuff like Vista and MS Office support.