Peter;

What you say is true. By the same token Cuba may some day be the only world super power. Then it will be black beans and rice for all. :)

Tom


>Well, I'm certainly not suggesting that Macs will take over the world. But they are selling quite a few of them, and, as they convert to OS X, they will be selling an equal number of Unix OS.
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>Look at the future from the point of view of a box seller. Every component in the box is getting cheaper with one exception, Windows, which each couple of years gets more expenseive. Project that a short distance into the future and you get that Windows will be half of the cost of the box (and climbing).
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>Now suppose that an excellent GUI becomes available at a reasonable cost (running on Linux which is essentially free for a box maker). Also assume that enough Unix/Linux systems are in use so that hardware manufacturers are routinely producing drivers for that OS. And, finally, assume the existence of an office suite which is file compatible with MS Office and not bad. You can sell this box for about 60% of the cost of the Windows box. (50% for hardware, 5% for the GUI, and 5% for the office suite.)
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>As a box seller you would have to look hard at that possibility.
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>Peter
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>>No, Mac buyers are not geeks. But, I've seen one company in the last 10 years that standardized around the Mac. And it was ugly. The CFO believed that the MAC was so easy, that they didn't really need an IS staff. So the company I worked at which was the same size of about 750 people, had an IS staff of 40. At the Mac shop they had 3. And no developers.
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>>So I don't see the world clamouring for Macs yet, either.
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>>PF