Mac Users May Be Smarter

micah_lanier writes "Thought I would point out an interesting story from news.com. It seems a NetRatings Study concluded that those owning Macs tend to be more experienced with the internet, as well as educated better in general. However, this simply illustrates the fact that Macs are generally bought by those with little trouble paying higher prices, and therefore those who can more easily gain access to higher education (and so on)." Then how do we explain all the people with less education buying premium computers from Compaq and Dell? I think it's just that people with bigger brains like better computers!

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the homepage glut explained

[MadFarmAnimalz]

And the Mac faithful are 58 percent more likely than the overall online population to build their own Web page

So that's where all the "Hi-my-name-is-Jenny-and-I-like-cats" homepages are coming from.

Re:the homepage glut explained

[Large Green Mallard]

Google's first match for a jenny who likes cats...

here

and on the 4th line..

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">

I get your point tho ;)

Re:Prestige, Cost, Market: Three explanations

[DavidRavenMoon]

It conveys an artsy, "I like what computers can do but I don't like computers" image.

OK, I'm a Mac user, and also an graphic artist by trade, and a musician too. So that would make me "artsy."

I do like computers though, and I know about how they work.

A better analogy might be:

Mac users: "I like driving my car, but I don't care to know how to rebuild a carburetor."

Linux users: "I like driving my car, AND rebuilding the carburetor."

Windows users: "My CD player in my car never plays track 5 on any of my CDs. But that's OK because I never liked track 5 anyway."