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Macs at Mindcamp
By Sparky | November 11, 2006
So I’m here at Seattle Mind Camp 3.0 having a blast and I have an observation. A year ago at the first Mind Camp about 10% of the participants had Apple Laptops. Last April at Mind Camp 2.0 about 30% of the campers had Macs, and this time over half of the laptops here are Macbooks or Macbook Pro’s.
Are we the trend leaders, or has Apple really made that much of an inroad into the Seattle tech community in the last 12 months? I realize a lot of companies have come to Seattle that buy Macs for their employees (Google to name a big one) but still - it’s a lot of growth.
Viva La APPLE!
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November 12th, 2006 at 10:32 am
I am visiting Seattle for the week from Iowa. Whilst walking around and going to coffee shops I can’t help but notice that this town is obsessed with MacBooks. I know one person in Iowa with one. I’ve seen hundreds since I arrived three days ago. I think the entire Seattle culture is inundated with Macs.
November 12th, 2006 at 8:19 pm
I’ve noticed this trend in California as well, and to an extent it has a lot to do with Intel macs and the trend towards design and development being joined at the hip. Even an traditionally anti-mac person like myself would consider buying a macbook pro (never a desktop) and use parallels to run Ubuntu and OSX on it. They look good, the OS is great, and the cost is no longer prohibitive.
November 12th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
I remember being surprised by the vast numbers of mac users in Seattle when I moved there in ‘97. You would think there would be more Windows sheeple with Microsoft so near. Turns out a lot of Microsoft employees are mac users.
Apple has had a lot of growth in the last 12 months. Their stock has increased about %38. Apple sold %56 more laptops last quarter than a year ago. They sold about 11,000 laptops a day last quarter, about half going to first time mac users. That figure will increase dramatically this quarter due to holiday sales.
November 13th, 2006 at 11:41 am
I noticed the same thing at mindcamp and in the eastside coffee shops (which really aught to be Microsoft territory).
With Intel and BootCamp in place, Apple purchases among the early adoptor crowd are up in a huge way. I think it’s highly likely this will spread to the mainstream, resulting in a huge relative % increase of apple sales (although it still might be small on an absolute scale).