“Here comes Tiger, the pet name for the Mac OS X Version 10.4. Apple today releases the new operating system for its Mac line of computers. Apple Computer has high hopes that Tiger will earn its stripes. Market share for its Mac computers is stuck in the single digits, but Apple hopes new features incorporated into Tiger will appeal to disgruntled Windows users,” CNBC’s website reads.
Does Apple’s new operating system have you thinking of buying a Mac? Vote (Yes, No, or I already have a Mac) and watch “Closing Bell” each Monday through Friday from 3-5 p.m. ET.
Vote here.
MacDailyNews Note: Live vote results currently show: Yes – 22%, No – 63%, I already own a Mac – 15%.
[UPDATE: 12:35pm. Since our initial post 15 minutes ago, live vote results now show: Yes – 27%, No – 46%, I already own a Mac – 27%.]
huh? I thought only 2% of people owned Macs!
Time to reconsider the very meaning of life…
Actually CherryOS has me considering a Windows machine. Anybody know when CherryOS will be upgraded to match Tiger?
Simulated Mac OS on an x86? Hard to imagine a worse combination.
Currently: Yes 28%, No 47%, Already own 26%. Over half of the 350+ respondents either already own or are thinking about getting a Mac. Cool!
Current results (after my vote)
Yes 33%
No 34%
Already own a mac
33%
Now it’s 33% for each answer. Crazy.
current –
Yes
36%
No
31%
I already own a Mac
33%
i think it shows that mac people are more technically savvy. i had read before that over 18% of google users are on a mac, and that 14% of ecommerce are mac users. of course, us mac users already know that we are brighter
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Look, look — you all know me! I’m Triumph! The ‘T’ Dog! Yeh-hehesssss. I love Macs as much as the next purebred, but something tells me this poll is being freeped. I mean, I haven’t seen numbers this good since my last STD tests came back!
The numbers are good – too good. But even if they are half of what the polls show, you can expect Apple to gain some serious marketshare in the coming months…
How would anyone actually find this poll. Why dosn’t CNBC have its own website it is buried in MSN. This looks really unprofessional. It has to be one if not the worst site I have ever seen. I had to search a while to even find this poll without clicking the above link.
Currently…
42% : yes
25 % : no
33% : already own a mac
WOW
Current poll results are skewed by rampaging Mac fanatics going CRAAAAZY!
Yes – 42%
No – 24%
ALREADY – 34%
MAC’s are so superior, it is not even funny
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Aldo…deal with the reality. The Mac is back baby!!!
Wow, MDN, you can really pump Mac traffic around when you want, where you want! I think MDN is affecting this poll.
Not necessarily, the story is featured on Google news as well…
Re; Cherry OS; a better question; does anyone know if it will actually work?
And if it does, who cares?
Why do certain people feel the need to fsck with the numbers? Who do they think they’re fooling and what good do they think is going to come from it? It’s like the polls during the election – all of the poll tampering didn’t do anything to help Kerry, in fact it probably hurt his campaign because they thought he was doing better than he was. So whoever it was that thought they were being clever screwed themselves. Congratulations, moron. So lets say the results from this Tiger poll get announced and they say on CNBC that 42% of the people polled say they’re willing to buy a Mac – what have you accomplished? Nothing.
actually you are very wrong.
Since most people are sheep, especially windows users, making them think that they’re following a crowd will ease one of their fears of switching. So something is accomplished after all.
Next dumb comment?
They closed the poll.
Here is the final tally (Total Votes: 3362)
Yes 42%
No 21%
I already own a Mac 37%
Ashdog, the only problem I see with your theory is that sheep most likely follow each other into the store. They don’t read a poll and rush down to the nearest retailer.
The poll is now closed with the final results.
Yes considering getting a Mac 42%
No 21%
Already own a Mac 37%
It looks like Apple better prepare to sell a lot of Macs as more people are considering to buy one than not.
Lurker_PC
That has to be one of the dumbest moves ever. CherryOS runs about 1/2 as good as VPC. Believe me – my roommate tried it.
That was incredible. You gotta wonder though how many Mac Fans hit “Yes” rather than “I already have a Mac”; you know at least some did. The Mac Community online really has a lot of power to influence thing of this nature because we are so ardent. Look at the Forbes CEO Poll.
We have seen an incredible response from the Mac Community since launching wikitosh.com. Thanks again to anybody here who visited the site and contributed and a very special thanks again to MDN. You guys are de bomb and a really valuable and fun facet of the Mac Online Community.
it appears they reopened the poll till the 1st