Digital Arts is a Windows world

I went to the Linux Expo 2002 exhibition at Olympia 2 in London this morning, which was probably a mistake. It was so small and boring I went round all the stands three times in half an hour. Never mind, Digital Arts World was being held in the Grand Hall, so I went to that instead. What a shock. I expected to see wall-to-wall Macs, but something like 75-80% of the computers there were PCs, mostly running Windows 2000. I asked Bruce Steele, Director of Visual Effects at Glassworks, where all the Macs went. "Macintosh is charging twice the price for half the computer," he said. Exhibitors are not the same as users, of course, but it will be interesting to see how the market plays out.