“The privileged populace of Wellesley tops the list of towns with the highest level of Mac-aholics in the state, according to a study by a local advertising firm,” Jessica Van Sack reports for The Boston Herald. “Westboro-based Chitika Insights studied traffic from Mac, PC and Linux-based computers statewide and found that almost 36 percent of computers in the affluent town were made by Apple, nearly five times the company’s U.S. market share average of about 7.2 percent.”
“The most Apple-heavy towns have little in common except that they tend to be wealthy and/or have a high student population. Wellesley is among the wealthiest towns in the state, with an average household income of $209,694, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey,” Van Sack reports. “The top of the Mac list also features Vineyard Haven, just slightly behind by several tenths of a percent at 35 percent Apple users; Needham at 32 percent; and Allston and Brighton at 32 and 31 percent, respectively.”
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Van Sack reports, “Chitika researcher Daniel J. Ruby conducted the study, which analyzed millions of Web site impressions flowing through its vast online advertising network from May 22 to 29.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Why settle for inferior, frustration-provoking, insecure Windows PCs? And you don;t have to be “rich” to get a Mac, either. You can save on Apple certified Macs, which are as good as new and an excellent way to buy Apple products.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
They are not really that expensive anymore anyway
Wellesley, home to Babson College.
The student population’s adoption of Macs should be VERY SCARY for Microsoft. I graduated college in 2008 and even three years ago I was in classes where almost 80% of students had Macbooks. And the students of today are the business and household purchasers of tomorrow.
It’s more education level than income that makes up the Mac / PC divide. The money is a symptom- not the cause.
You can buy a Mac mini for $600 brand new and hook it to an HDTV, which kicks the shit out of what the same money buys in the Windoze market. The cost bit is so out of date as to be a joke.
Yeh when people are looking at Macs, if you want to compare apples to apples, you need to subtract $200 to $300 from the price of the machine because OS X development is essentially rolled into the price. Some cheapo laptops only come with win 7 basic. People complain about the Apple “tax” when in reality they’re getting more/better software.
No kidding! And with your Apple purchase you get the iLife package. Just getting iPhoto and Garageband make it a no-brainer. Plus Apple doesn’t load your hard drive with utterly worthless OEM crapola and demos and shite like that that takes time to get rid of.
Do the trash collectors in Wellesley use Macs to plan their routes or do they use the Dells that have been dumped by the households and recovered from the dumpsters?
Not worth recovering.
Same people writing the articles are most likely driving luxury autos, buying 200 dollar jeans, and other mis guided spending. Yet, when it comes to a computer they yell the sky is falling for a few dollars.
Like explain to me how much people waste a year on products that they want so they can impress another person and yet roll with a PC they brag at getting for less withmore problems.
Geez, how dumb are these people! PCers, nuff said!
They also shop at Wal-Mart for toothpaste and laundry detergent.
DUDE! Exactly!
Case in point, a few years back I was picking up surplussed Dull Workstations, cleaning them up and selling them off for extra money.
I was giving ‘SMOKIN’ deals price wise.
This one guy comes out to my house and pisses and complains that I won’t come down on the price. We are talking $150 for a Xeon workstation with a SCSI array, 3 gigs of RAM and I was throwing in a monitor keyboard and mouse.
I tell the dude sorry you can go somewhere else if the price is too high.
I walk him outside and the guy gets into a brand new Mercedes Benz…
I also loved how he ‘complained’ that he had to go home to mow his 2 acre yard on his riding lawn mower.
ridiculous.
It’s often the case that generosity is inversely proportional to the amount of riches a person has. It’s a common story, one that I come across often myself. It’s how they became rich in the first place by counting the pennies.
And that is the part that is being overlooked! “… they tend to … have a high student population.” I believe that the “student population” is now at 75% or 85% Mac and NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IT!!! (That will tank their stocks.)
I bet Steve Ballmer, Michael Dell and who ever is the CEO of HP can see this! These students will get a job some day. They will be the decision makers in a family one day. The future is OS X and iOS. NOT Windows or Red Hat!
Clearly these people have way too much disposable income and they are wasting their money on these Macs when pencil and paper will do. I have no problem raising their taxes over the 50% mark whatsoever.
50%…right…
How can he do that when the 101st Amendment guarantees freedom from taxation? Taxes are so evil and deficits don’t matter…
Oh the humor of the Neo-Con-job! What’s more funny? Their lies about their opposition or their own delirious delusions?
Oddly, such self-destructive people have consistently been the source of the argument that democracy is a failure. Let fools vote and they vote in fools. Witness our new US House of Representatives. Just laugh.
My very favorite Neo-Con-Job delusion, the source of so much of the USA’s current crises:
STARVE THE BEAST
IOW: Thank the Neo-Con-Jobs for our drastic budget deficits and national debt! Shocking, isn’t it.
36% still leaves a lot of headroom for growth in that sector. Then realize the massive Mac-conversion potential for the general U.S. population and worldwide.
When investment analysts say Apple is less of a growth company now, they have no idea. Apple could well reach the sort of ubiquity microsoft used to enjoy, but even a small fraction of that would see it double or triple again.
It’s not the cost (when you’re pulling in 200+K, the price is not particularly important). Like your ride, you want a well designed system that is fun to use.
For those who ever considered the Mac to be more expensive than a Windows box: That has never been the case. Here’s why:
Total Cost = Shelf Price + Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) – Return On Investment (ROI).
Often Macs have a higher shelf price than comparably equipped Windows boxes.
But Macs have a consistently lower cost of ownership. For example, you still don’t require anti-malware software for Macs. There’s nothing extra to buy. Macs also come with terrific software already installed, again cutting the costs of buying extra software.
Meanwhile, Macs have a higher return on investment. For example, the Mac is consistently easier to use and therefore saves time. Time is money. Macs also consistently last longer. For example, right now I am on a MacBook from late 2006 and can do anything I want with it. I don’t need to replace it. That’s nearly 5 years of life and still cooking. I also have 3 other Macs. The oldest is from 1993, (not a typo) still runs perfectly. I use it as an imaging workstation on my home LAN. I also run a server on the Internet 24/7 using my 1997 Mac 9600 tower. How many Windows boxes have that kind of lifetime? Therefore, I’m getting more for my money with my Macs.
Then add in the fact that EVERY professional study ever done comparing Macs to Windows boxes found Macs to be cheaper!
So next time someone whines ‘Macs are more expensive!’, tell there is more to a computer’s total cost than mere shelf price. If they still don’t get it, let them buy the Windows box. They deserve it.
I couldn’t have said it any better myself, bravo
The US economy sucks and most folks are really struggling. Yet every Apple store is very busy.
The reason?
People shop value, not price. With an Apple product you get great value and “it just works; for a long time”!