Mac Users Are Smarter
from the and-probably-better-looking,-too dept
Look at me. Everyone claims that I'm a Mac hater, and here I am posting a story about how a new study shows Mac users are smarter, make more money, and are more web savvy. I must be a stupid Windows users to post such a story...
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What the frick ?
8.2% of ALL interent users use Mac's and 70.2% of that 8.2% have college degrees, whereas the total number of people with college degrees online is 54.2% of all web users.
So what if 5 people have Mac's and all 5 of them went to college (100%). Still doesnt compare to 800 PC users where only 400 of them went to college (50%). Sure the percents are better, but I would rather market my stuff to 400 people then just to 5.
Also if Apple wants to stay alive they better start understanding the more they blend with the PC market the better chance they have.
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I don't know about that
Another annoying thing that some of the more techie Mac Users will do is laugh when windows crash and loudly profess that their macs never do...yet when I watch them use their precious macs, I see them freeze and reboot just as often as my windows machine...but they then insist that it wasn't a crash...just a freeze. WTF?
I just switch to linux and avoid the "freezes" and then laugh at them all.
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Re: I don't know about that
I agree! How can you get excited about a computer that doesn't include something as basic as a manual eject button on the floppy or CD drive?
I once dated a girl who owned a Mac. She mail-ordered some floppy disks of fonts for her Mac and one of the disks had a virus on it that prevented the diskette from being ejected. Her computer (and thus her DTP business) were down for a day and a half while she waited for a repair technician to come out and EJECT THE FLOPPY DISK.
And what about the deal with the Celine Dion albums crashing a Mac? If it crashes your PC, no big deal, you MANUALLY eject the disc and restart your PC, but you CAN'T do that with a Mac.
Oh, and in keeping with the tradition of the latest Mac commercials...
My name is Oliver Wendell Jones... and I'm a hacker.
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Re: I don't know about ejecting Mac disks
It's a trivial matter to use the paper clip to eject the disk when there is no activity.
OTOH,on your PC, bump the button while the disk is being written to or read from and it's a problem.
Oh, and how old was that Mac? Virtually no one sends things out on floppy disks these days.
Oh, you were talking about things you don't understand.
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Logic flaws
It's important to realize that having a higher level of education does not necessarily mean that you are smarter...
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Re: Logic flaws
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Mac crashes
And we really abused its little no-fan-butt when the A/C went out last summer. You would open a folder a boom it was dead. hehe Smart move Apple, way to save $5.
Give me a good old home built PC any day of the week.
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Re: Mac crashes
Oh, Steve? Have you started bathing yet? Have you stopped flushing your feet in the toilet?
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correction
These are marketing terms, and the story doesn't seem to be intended to be incendiary or provocative, in my opinion -- the headline is the only thing that asks the sensitive question of higher intelligence. But it only asks the question, it doesn't assert it, and the story doesn't seem to, either.
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Relax Children
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the term "coward" certainly fits
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This is a biased study!!
This study has lost ALL validity with me because most eduacational facilities use Mac because of the deals that Apple cuts with schools from Elememntaty to College..of course mac users will appear smarter if the majority of usesrs are from *.k12.state.us or *.edu! They are in the business of education.
Duh!
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