> Wait just a minute.  A huge percentage of computers sold with the
> Windows OS installed are in business and government offices.  It is
> quite possible that most Windows machines are not owned by
> individuals.  

Well, I don't know about that. The vast majority of people I know use PCs at
home. My daughter's class, for example, conducted a survey at the beginning
of the school year and the result was something like 8:1 (I think it was 25
PC households and 3 Mac households), which comports pretty well with the
overall PC/Mac market share. No, I don't have any numbers to back this up;
it's just my own experience.

> I do not think that one can equate the number of
> Windows-based computers with the number of conservative 
> voters versus liberal voters.

I don't think so either, and that was really my point.

All I'm getting at is that I don't believe we can say "Liberals use Macs and
conservatives use PCs." That perception may be a side effect of the image
created by Apple's marketing (cool people are always liberal, of course),
but I'd be surprised if it has any basis in reality.


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