Mac Facts:
1). Apple makes 9% of all computers sold each year. Recently it was shown
that this figure is
actually growing by several percent a year, showing that the PC market is
in fact getting smaller.
Good news for Apple developers!
2). Apple is selling more computers than ever.
3). 76% of colour pre-press customers use Mac's.
4). There are 60 million Apple users today.
5). 63% of all multimedia titles are written on a Mac.
6). Apple is the number three computer vendor for Japan.
7). The Macintosh computer is the world's most used Web authoring machine.
8). 25% of all Web Browsing is carried out from a Macintosh.
9). The Macintosh based PowerPC chip is easily faster than the same speed
chip in a PC. A
Power Mac 9500/120, was on average a massive 51% faster than a 120Mhz
Pentium processor
based PC!
10). The fastest PC is a Macintosh!
11). The Apple Macintosh is still the only computer with a true Plug and
Play functionality.
12). Apple are only making 12000 of their special 20th anniversary Mac,
which will retail at
£5000 each!
13). Guess which personal computer manufacturer are fourth in the
world..IBM!!! Apple are
only third, and are making progress on becoming the second largest
computer manufacturer!
14). Divisions of NASA which use Mac's often only have one support person
for 250 Mac's,
while there is one support person for 15 - 30 PC's!!!
15). 5 out of 8 people who purchased a PC after buying a Mac, realising
their mistake, then went
and bought another Mac! (to do this they refunded the money for the PC,
then used it to buy a
Macintosh)
16). A new Mac is sold every 8 seconds.
17). Research from IDC predicts that there will be a total of over 36
million Mac's in existence
by 1999.
18) . Over half of all Mac's have Internet access.
19). The Macintosh is named after a type of Apple.
20). Susan Kare created the first icons for use with Apple's graphical
interface.
21). The Mac was the first computer to have a CD ROM drive built in.
22). More than half of all Mac's use System 7.5 (October 1997).
23). Mac owners bought over 4 million games in 1996.
24). Sales of home education programmes went up 33% between June and
September.
25). The Mac OS comes in 35 different languages.