Actually, Bill, I don't have you confused with another poster. You, OTOH, seem confused regarding the difference between opinion and fact. Sometimes they are the same but in your case I'd say the correlation is around 50%.
You deny industry data regarding Apples' share of the education market because you don't want to believe it. You cite data from "U of T" claiming WINTELs outsell Macs 10:1 on campus. Really? What's your source? You seem in deep denial on this issue. "Don't confuse me with facts" is supposed to be a joke, not a way of life.
Here's a personal anecdote. (You like personal anecdotes don't you?) My niece just graduated from HS. Although she's used a Mac all her life, her parents were reluctant to buy a new Mac as her "big" graduation gift because they'd been buried in the kind of BS you're shovelling. After visiting the big mid-West university (over 43,000 students) where she'll be matriculating this fall, they returned home and bought that Mac. Seeems the computer science guys on campus told my brother-in-law that, among the students who had computers, Macs were on "40 or 50%" of the desktops there.
Sales to the home market are a reflection of the share each system, Mac or PC, holds on business desktops. People who work on PCs at work frequently have that type of computer at home. For one thing, it makes it easier to do office work at home. For another, it saves on the cost of S/W since people can install free copies of their business S/W on their home computers.
Regarding upgrades. I still don't see your point here. Are you saying Macs aren't upgradeable? Any Mac manufactured in the past several years can get an upgrade CPU etc.. As I said before, my Mac began life with a 100MHz 601 processor. It took me 5 minutes to upgrade to a 185MHz 604e. So what's your point?
Bob
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