Quote - Monday, March 17, 2008Apple snags 14 percent of US-based PC retail sales in February

By Katie Marsal

Published: 05:00 PM EST 

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Growth in Apple's personal computer business continued to outpace the industry average last month, with Macs accounting for a 14 percent unit share and 25 percent dollar share of all US-based PC retail sales, according to market research firm NPD.

The above information merely references the number of users but it does not speak to a specific sector of users, such as, the percentage of total personal computer owners that use their equipment for graphics, animation, video editing, etc.  With this consideration in mind, the actual numbers could, from a statistical viewpoint, be entirely different ... much higher or lower.

Addendum to above:
IMO the above 14%, with respect to the topic of conversation, may not be entirely accurate because it only references a specific time frame and does not consider the number or percentage of users as a whole which would require knowledge of the actual total number of users.  Taking a poll on this site would assume that the lion's share of Mac users, within the defined environment, are member of this forum and, of course, that may not be the case.