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Having plenty of time on my hands while my compatriots at Gizmodo blog blog blog it all at CES 2008, I took a walk around the press lounge to check the ratio of Macs to PCs. The latest numbers peg Apple with a 7.3 percent market share in the world at large. Will the the press lounge be full of fanboys or stodgy old corporate types?

Click to viewIn an informal survey, I spotted 129 machines: 94 PCs and 35 Macs (disclosure: including my MacBook Pro). That's a 27 percent share for Steve Jobs & Co. And you wonder why tech reporters spend so much time writing about Apple?