From: "Glenn Meadows" 

The number of people I'm discovering who ARE moving to Mac's this year is
way above what I've seen in the past.  These are non-techie folks, who are
tired of the infections and junk on their Windows PC's.  They've come to
ask me to help move their documents off their PC's so they can put them on
their Mac's instead.  They plan to actually just trash/junk their Windows
boxes.

Many are getting Mac Mini's, and hooking them to their flat panel TV's.  I
wouldn't be surprised in a much larger than expected quite groundswell
movement to Mac over the next year or so.

It's surprising how many have commented on those goofy, but apparently
quite effective Mac-PC commercials.

Interesting times.

--

Glenn M.
"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> Except that the Windows tax at the Dell/HP/etc. level is trivial ($10-$25)
> especially wrt entry level "home" OSes.  At that point it
becomes a case
> of "an extra $25 for a machine with Windows?  Sure, why
not."  JQP doesn't
> see any difference between Windows Home and Windows "All the
> functionality" since they don't know and don't care about the
> functionality.
>
> If that $25 really made a difference then hundreds of thousands of Linux
> (you choose the distro) machines would be walking off the shelves and
> appearing in homes and under Christmas trees.
>
> I know of *one* non-techie person who has a Linux machine.  I know several
> who have Macs and I know loads who have Windows.  (I also know of one or
> two who have have OS/2 ;-) )
>
>
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:43:28 -0500, Geo  wrote:
>
>> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
>> news:op.tkmsjyium6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>>
>>> Cheaper OS?  JQP doesn't buy the OS, he buys the hw/sw package from
>>> Dell,
>>> BestBuy, etc. and Dell, BestBuy, HP aren't going to push Linux because
>>> there's no incentive for them to do that.
>>
>> Yes there is, as computers go below the $500 mark the cost of Windows is
>> very significant. As they drop below $300 it will become impossible to
>> compete with Linux based systems. and JQP is very very good at shopping,
>> that's why winmodems because the norm.
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

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