I'm traveling this Sunday afternoon and once again in the United Airlines lounge, I notice quite a few Mac laptops. I started to notice this about a year ago - around the time I was starting to seriously contemplate the shift back to Mac from XP. I'd say that close to 25% of the laptops in use at any time in the club are Macs which is significantly more than the 5-10% market share usually quoted.
However, if you look at the top 20% of laptops sold by cost, the Mac share (at least according to this three year old report - I couldn't find anything newer) is almost 30%. And this market, I suspect, is the one represented in airline club lounges throughout the world (based on observations in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Argentina).
I'm very happy with my choice, although I wish the MacBook Pro was as light as my old Lenovo X61s. I also have a Dell Mini 10 running OSX (paid for) for personal use which is much lighter and more compact.
However, there are a couple of things that make it tough to switch 100% and get rid of that VMware XP image:
1. Entourage in Office for the Mac is not as good as Outlook still - supposed to be changing with Office 2010 for Mac. Why entourage can't support CalDAV calendars is beyond me.
2. PST support for Entourage. Actually this is now fixed with a tool from Microsoft, although I haven't yet imported those 20,000 plus archived messages from various PST files.
3. Visio? Every architect needs his or her Visio - isn't a large part of what we do draw pictures? I've read that ConceptDraw is a viable alternative, but I haven't downloaded the trial version yet.
Oops - gotta run for the flight. more later
Update (6/14/10 9:25 CST)
The other things that keep me having to have the VM image of XP around:
4. MS Project - is there a realistic Mac alternative for this?
5. Photoshop - I know, something of a red herring, but I have a licensed copy of PS for windows and I don't have $1000 to buy a mac license.
And this is minor, but IMHO feed demon for windows is better than net new wire for Mac even though they are from the same place.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
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