"Overall, Windows OS's took 92.52 per cent of the market for October, with the Mac taking 5.27 per cent, and Linux on 0.96 per cent."
These figures are from internet capable machines. Arguably, the numbers would skew more towards Windows if non-internet capable machines were added to the mix. Interestingly but not surprisingly, the iPhone has as much penetration as Linux at almost 1% of the market.
This article seems to be sensationalizing things a bit. High-end cards have, for quite some time, required both 8- and 6-pin power connectors, AND have been quite massive. It's difficult to tell from the image, but I don't believe it's much bigger, if any at all, than my GTX285. #atiradeonhd5970
Jeez - I just bought one 30" monitor and it is HUGE - I feel like I am getting a suntan sitting in front of the thing - I can't imagine 6 unless I get a job at NORAD. #atiradeonhd5970
@pencil sharpener: That is an x2 card with 2 GPUs on it already. You can crossfire it with another card for an x4 configuration if you've got that kind of ca$h. Considering an x1 ATI 5000 series card will run Crysis at max settings an x4 rig isn't really necessary unless you are trying to compensate for something. #atiradeonhd5970
@pencil sharpener: You could use two of them, as each board is already home to two seperate GPUs (and their memory) and a Crossfire link connecting those.
So two boards would bring you up to the limit of Crossfire 4x #atiradeonhd5970
I seem to recall reading that this requires displayport monitors in order to run all the displays as one. Does anyone know if that's true? #atiradeonhd5970
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Gawkers commenting system is bugged in regards to older comments currently. It's the same on Kotaku. Annoying as hell because I can't check my replies. #macvspc
I would like to point out that using the abbreviations PC when asking "do you use a mac ora a PC as your personal home computer?" is redundant since PC means Personal Computer, it doesn't mean Windows, it doesn't mean Macintosh, it doesn't mean *nix.... it means Personal Computer.... so technically this poll should be 100% on PC, or PC should be renamed to Windows. I'm really not sure when PC started to mean Windows, but it's quite a false assumption, of course since the PC market is dominated by Windows computers, maybe that was the thought behind it, or someone was trying to make computers less personal, hell if I know... #macvspc
@Enzer Milliard: That may be kind of true today, but you're overlooking decades of history. There was a time when "PC" meant a specific kind of computer, distinct from all others, back when the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh were not the only players around.
Each system had its own unique hardware and OS. When IBM licensed their technology to other hardware manufacturers, the PC-compatibles, or clones, proliferated, which helped the PC class of computers to overtake the rest of the field, as people could buy or build their own PC-compatible systems for much less money than the competing systems, which required you to buy everything, from the computer itself, to all the peripherals, from the same brand (Apple, Atari, Tandy, Commodore, etc.).
What remains is the legacy of the old IBM PC, and it is this style of computer that we continue to mean when we say PC, even though new Apple Macs use the Intel architecture instead of Motorola, and so now the only real distinction comes from the OS...so Windows (and Linux to some extent) vs. OS X. #macvspc
@UnderLoK: I mentioned the x86 architecture when I was first typing up my comment, but then I remembered that Cyrix and AMD introduced their own chips that weren't x86, but still led to IBM PC-compatible computers, so I dropped it because I didn't want to muddy the waters. #macvspc
I am pretty sure that Macs were always known as PCs. It is just their marketing campaign has infected our language, making us think that the Mac is more than just a PC. #macvspc
Gizmodo is the National Enquirer of tech news sites.
Asking readers which OS they use for reading Gizmodo is assinine when Gizmodo could actually get the stats themselves from their server with a tiny script.
Gizmodo is to the National Enquirer of websites as you are to the Rush Limbaugh of commentary.
"Asking readers which OS they use for reading Gizmodo is assinine"
Reading. Is. Fundamental.
Gizmodo did not ask that poll question. The actual poll question is,
"Do You Use a Mac Or a PC As Your Personal Home Computer?"
A script on the Giz server would not reveal this answer, as many people read Gizmodo at work. Given the penetration of PCs in the workplace, the results of such a script would likely demonstrate a heavy PC-bias.
Hey, waddaya know, just like the script results Gizmodo published!
Instead, they asked a question to which they couldn't deduce the answer from a script.
Also you dont give room for MULTIPLE computers. I have 3 computers, 2 running windows 7 and one running linux (file server and for playing with ubuntu!)...oh also a dead windows laptop with XP. I would love to get a mac mini though #macvspc
I wonder how many PC owners didn't respond because you didn't give an option for Windows and Linux together. I know I didn't. I did just go an add a vote for PC since it technically means both and I've been using my shiny new Windows 7 install more lately rather than booting into Ubuntu.
I was going to vote for PC, since that's what I'm using, but you see, the Left 4 Dead demo was just released.
Now since we know this only affects PC users (Mac users are much too snobby to boot into windows, even to play games), then we must account for the readers who were too busy to vote.
So I think there is an error with the data.
(of course, in a more legitimate statistical note, there is most likely (as in any online poll) a responder bias. ) #macvspc
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"Overall, Windows OS's took 92.52 per cent of the market for October, with the Mac taking 5.27 per cent, and Linux on 0.96 per cent."
These figures are from internet capable machines. Arguably, the numbers would skew more towards Windows if non-internet capable machines were added to the mix. Interestingly but not surprisingly, the iPhone has as much penetration as Linux at almost 1% of the market.
Source: [www.channelregister.co.uk]
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Can you Crossfire 2 or 3 of them?
That would be completely Redonkulous!
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So two boards would bring you up to the limit of Crossfire 4x #atiradeonhd5970
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It seems that the comments get wiped clean now - especially when they are negatively slanted towards a giz article. #macvspc
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Gawkers commenting system is bugged in regards to older comments currently. It's the same on Kotaku. Annoying as hell because I can't check my replies. #macvspc
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Each system had its own unique hardware and OS. When IBM licensed their technology to other hardware manufacturers, the PC-compatibles, or clones, proliferated, which helped the PC class of computers to overtake the rest of the field, as people could buy or build their own PC-compatible systems for much less money than the competing systems, which required you to buy everything, from the computer itself, to all the peripherals, from the same brand (Apple, Atari, Tandy, Commodore, etc.).
What remains is the legacy of the old IBM PC, and it is this style of computer that we continue to mean when we say PC, even though new Apple Macs use the Intel architecture instead of Motorola, and so now the only real distinction comes from the OS...so Windows (and Linux to some extent) vs. OS X. #macvspc
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I am pretty sure that Macs were always known as PCs. It is just their marketing campaign has infected our language, making us think that the Mac is more than just a PC. #macvspc
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Come on. Speak up. I'm dying to know. #macvspc
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Asking readers which OS they use for reading Gizmodo is assinine when Gizmodo could actually get the stats themselves from their server with a tiny script.
What assclowns... #macvspc
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Gizmodo is to the National Enquirer of websites as you are to the Rush Limbaugh of commentary.
"Asking readers which OS they use for reading Gizmodo is assinine"
Reading. Is. Fundamental.
Gizmodo did not ask that poll question. The actual poll question is,
"Do You Use a Mac Or a PC As Your Personal Home Computer?"
A script on the Giz server would not reveal this answer, as many people read Gizmodo at work. Given the penetration of PCs in the workplace, the results of such a script would likely demonstrate a heavy PC-bias.
Hey, waddaya know, just like the script results Gizmodo published!
Instead, they asked a question to which they couldn't deduce the answer from a script.
You go, squishyalt. #macvspc
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I was going to vote for PC, since that's what I'm using, but you see, the Left 4 Dead demo was just released.
Now since we know this only affects PC users (Mac users are much too snobby to boot into windows, even to play games), then we must account for the readers who were too busy to vote.
So I think there is an error with the data.
(of course, in a more legitimate statistical note, there is most likely (as in any online poll) a responder bias. ) #macvspc
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IMPOSSIBLE! #macvspc