What is the percentage of Mac users to PC users. Worldwide or otherwise?

Answer 1

Worldwide it's about 3-5%. In the US it's about 8-9%. The place with the higher percentage is Japan, where it's at least 30% (especially because of animes and mangas)

Answer 2

out of 100% only there are 7 % users of mac. 85 % of the market is captured by windows xp.

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The market share outside of the US is difficult to measure. Inside the US the Mac marketshare of the home desktop market is about 2.06% (as compared to Windows-proprietary machines). Laptop percentage is 3-4%. The marketshare for the MAC-OS variations however is much higher due to the IPad & IPhone (10.9%). However marketshare reflects current sales and doesn't account for users on older machines. This amount is estimated anywhere from 5-9% in the US if business/professional applications are included. It's lower in the US, highest in Japan.

A more accurate answer would require a more specific question. (IE, including all applications? Assuming OC means Windows-proprietary? Not including mobile devices? Including old machines that are rarely booted or just last year's sales?)

[While I didn't delete the old answer, note that it addresses a hardware question with an Operating System answer. XP no longer accounts for 85% of the Operating System percentage, but since Windows can run on a MAC, that's irrelevant to the question anyway.]

Answer 3

As of October 19th, 2009:

• 3.86% Mac
• 88.42% Windows
• 7.72% UNIX, Linux, Other

Great artiicle explaining why the numbers don't quite add up:

http://boycottnovell.com/2009/03/02/gartner-and-idc-linux-share/

This answer should be updated annually. This answer is related to Usage Share of Operating Systems maintained on Wikipedia.

Answer 4

Worldwide it's about 3-5%. In the US it's about 8-9%. The place with the higher percentage is Japan, where it's at least 30% (especially because of animes and mangas)