Presenters and their Macs

Something both my stage manager and I noticed at the WOMMA and other recent events is the rising preponderance of Macs on stage. Mac may have something like 6% of marketshare among PCs, but they seem to have about 40% of marketshare among people presenting at marketing conferences.

So what? Well, for me it means 2 things:

1. I bought some AAPL. People who present at conferences are influentials - if only by the fact that they're presenting at conferences. Hundreds of people see them endorsing Macs by using them.

2. I always carry a special Mac VGA adapter, because somebody is going to forget his or hers, and Macs don't plug into projectors or switchers without them. PowerMacs and iBooks, aggravatingly, use different adapters. Make sure you at least get the one for PowerMacs (which I hope is the same for the new MacBookPro). AND during your speaker last-minute logistics emails and phone calls, remind your speakers to bring their adapters.

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