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Sep. 25 2009 - 6:36 am | 5 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

How Many of You Use Macs? | Talking Points Memo

By MATT STEINGLASS

How Many of You Use Macs? | Talking Points Memo.

Josh Marshall notes that the number of visitors to his site who use Macs has gone from 20% to 30% over 2 years. Clearly there’s been a huge Mac resurgence.

I write this post from a MacBook, the first Mac I’ve owned in 9 years. I used Macs from when I got a degree in interactive telecommunications at NYU back in 1994-6 until 2000, when I moved to Africa. At that point I thought the maintenance networks for Macs in the third world would be so shabby that I’d better get a Windows machine. And I continued buying Windows when I moved to Vietnam for the same reason. But starting about 2 years ago, the Mac network in Vietnam started to fill out, particularly among imaging and design pros, and by now they’re quite widespread. So I went back to Mac last winter.

And it is awesome.

 
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    I've reported from Vietnam since 2003. I'm now the Hanoi correspondent for the German-based, English-language wire service Deutsche Presse-Agentur, and was previously a Hanoi-based stringer for the Boston Globe and for Voice of America. Before that I reported from West Africa, and before that from the Netherlands; my articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Nation, the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times. I've got a thing for languages, and have picked up Russian, French, Dutch and Vietnamese. I used to write scripts for the children's cartoon shows "Arthur", "Doug", and a few others. I got a degree in interactive telecommunications back when most people had never sent an email. In April 1991 I predicted the USSR would collapse into its constituent republics and that Boris Yeltsin would become president of Russia. Since then most of my predictions have been rather less accurate, so it was probably a fluke.

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