Agreed... those numbers were from March 2005. PG, can we have an update, please?

Also, I was at the first Startup School at Harvard in 2005 (?). One of the speakers (PG?) noted the very high proportion of Macs in the room. Looking around I guessed about 80%. That is consistent with something PG said in that Mac essay - "If you want to know what ordinary people will be doing with computers in ten years, just walk around the CS department at a good university. Whatever they're doing, you'll be doing." I'm seeing more of my friends and coworkers using Mac, even DBAs who use MS SQL Server a lot.

This is anecdotal, of course, but I've rarely used Mac in my lifetime. Windows always satisfied my needs, however now that PC gaming has essentially become pointlessly costly to me (Microsoft lost me with the whole DX10 only games, now they're readying to release D3D11, likely with its own swathe of D3D11 only games), because I can no longer buy a top of the line card and run it into the ground, because of Microsofts foolish bid to force people into Vista.

Unfortunately I ended up with Vista on one of my computers, the system is so cumbersome it's repugnant to me. XP had it's faults, however they're all passable and the lack of elegance in the system was forgiven by its durability and compatibility between locals (School, Work, Home).

Unfortunately for Microsoft, my next desktop is going to be an iMac. I'm fully aware there's going to be a learning curve when switching OS, however using Vista is frequently painful compared to XP. So for me, their's no longer a perceived barrier to entry to Mac, plus my wife is pushing for our next desktop to be a Mac... so I likely no longer have a choice but Mac. Same thing happened with the Xbox, when she found out the Elite was black and matched our TV she wouldn't let me get the cheaper one.