This statistic is pretty worthless on its own. If cost of living is 2x higher in europe than in US, you in fact have less (number i just made up to illustrate a point). Just because the median wealth is higher, doesn't mean you have more money. If i were working in california, i'd be poor, because the cost of living is nearly 2x where I live. So a californian's doing the same thing as me may have more wealth, but do they have more net wealth? no

I don't use chrome, simply because I can't press tab to cycle through my history in the omnibox, this is a 100% show-stopping feature that I need. And I refuse to use the arrow pad, because its simply not natural. Also I tend to have 30+ tabs open in a single window, in chrome they just shrink and shrink until I can't see what any of them are, but in firefox I can use tab mix plus extension and voila now I have tabs wrapping onto multiple lines.

as long as you don't mind violating the EULA

http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/MacOSX.htm

2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.