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By Ron McElfresh
Thursday, May 28, 2009
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Survey of computer use over 12 years from the University of Virgina. The trends are clear. From 1997 to today nearly all students own a computer, notebooks out number desktop PCs, and—drum roll—Mac market share is nearly 40-percent.

Each computing inventory is the compilation of statistics regarding computer ownership; type of computer; operating system; network capability; peripherals; and in recent years, mobile device ownership, too—among incoming first-year students at UVa.

Stunning trend. No wonder Microsoft is so desperate. The red bar is the Mac. Click for a larger version.

UV Graph

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