Do more Mac users hang out at coffee houses?

In Norway most people sitting with a Macbook in a coffebar are posers that really don´t know the difference between a Mac and a PC. They look very uptight and intense when reading the newspaper on web, at the same time they watch every single person walking by to see whether they should pose or not. It's kinda sad, but also funny :)

In Nashville (and most of Tennessee in general), it's often times 4-6 Macs to every Windows laptop in the independent coffee shops. I'm not sure how the ratio is in the big chain coffee shops as I usually avoid them.

It certainly is the case on Amtrak up and down the Hudson Valley between NYC and Albany, NY. Of the laptops in use in the typical cafe car, they're 90% Macs.

Oh, it sucks so bad that almost all the Diedrich coffee houses were replaced by Starbucks. Oh, well, there's always coffee bean.

Here in Korea, Mac users are a rare breed, but still over-represented among coffee house users. Maybe we just want to show off. :) Nah, I just like the atmosphere for doing my work.

Mac users appear as a majority at the local Ike's Coffee, I counted 8 different Mac laptops and 1 iPhone.

In NYC there seems to be mandatory to always have at least one Mac laptop user in Starbucks at all times, however, after careful personal observation, there were more Dell's than anything and PC's outnumbered the Macs at all times.

Jul:

Some people have a job that requires them to work online, yet they don't have to report to a traditional brick-and-mortar office.

Rather than sit home and work, it's more fun to be SOCIAL and work in a comfortable, public place.

Why go to a public place to engage in a weird, solitary behavior. So you can keep your f-ing Twitter feed going? How about talking to people? Society is fucked.

Its usually more PC's for me, but everybody eyes my macbook, so i stopped hanging out there.

Funny, my local non chain coffee shops are almost all PC's...a good share of them are Dells but there are some Toshibas, Sonys, and Lenovo/IBM machines mixed in.

When I go to the Panera here, I am for sure the only MBP user there, sometimes occasionally someone will have a white Macbook, and I've never seen a black one there.

Of course, I'm in a town with a university that doesn't exactly encourage Mac use, 300 miles away from the closest Apple store, with a mostly technology-apathetic public anyhow.