this kind of thing is more important than it seems. Since the market share numbers from the big researchers are pretty meaningless for all vendors, these anecdotal gains are good to watch trends.
But the situation becomes more interesting if you have an apples-to-apples comparison. In chatting with friends at Cornell University, I learned that Cornell keeps statistics on the operating systems used by the 6,842 students connecting to the Ethernet-based ResNet, Cornell’s Residence Hall Network Service. (This is not all Cornell students, just those living in the dorms.)
The ResNet breakdown is quite a bit different from the single-digit percentages often associated with the Mac market share and shows Apple in a much more favorable light. Overall, Macs are used by 21 percent of Cornell dorm dwellers, compared with 78 percent using PCs.
Most of the Macintosh share is of course Mac OS X, though 4 percent claim to be running Windows on an Intel-based Mac (which means theyÂ?re also almost certainly running Mac OS X), and a mere 0.12 percent are running Mac OS 9 or older (that’s 8 hardy souls, if you were wondering).
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