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Are Mac Users Smarter than PC Users?
arminw writes "Maybe not smarter, but according to MacNewsWorld they are better at expressing themselves than the average Slashdotter and certainly are better at handling the king's English than the average PC operator." Also, michael is better than CowboyNeal. Mathematical expressions of written style don't lie!
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"Oh the mac has such superior hardware!"
While this may have been true for a time, since the PCI bus has been around the mac has fallen behind. Macs used to ship with all SCSI drives, but now ship with standard IDE. Now with PCI express out, how soon before I hear a mac user try and tell me "WE HAD IT FIRST!"
"Mac is best for desktop publishing"
Quark runs on PC and mac. So does photoshop, so does every other major application put out by adobe.
"Mac is best for video editing"
Mac *WAS* the only choice a few years back. Look at the renderfarms being built today though. Teams of MBA's and geeks go for the biggest bang for the buck, and i've yet to hear of a renderfarm on a major movie using a mac cluster. Final Cut is a good app for home/prosumer video editors, but for serious work like ILM LOTR stuff, get a renderfarm of PC's.
"MacOS is so easy to use"
I don't see much difference in ease of use between MacOS and XP. Then again, i'm a sysadmin, I can care less about the UI, just tell me where my network settings are so I can go to work.
"OSX uses the machBSD kernel"
Why not just run BSD and get it over with?
Between the lack of applications, the constantly playing catch up with the PC, and the general FUD mac users like to spread, they're not all that bright. Most PC users I know use a PC because they don't buy into all that Mac FUD. Like that rap song goes, "Don't believe the hype"
No way. Windows users are bunch of sissys, wimps, and p*ssies. I mean, can Windows users stand the pain of tattoos? Where are the sites of tough nerds with Windows tattoos?
I'll bet you Windows peeps start crying like little French girls at the thought of needles.
Wow... that's so elitist.
I would actually attribute this correlation to a few very simple factors:
You know it could be that Macintosh advertisers are targeting people who are susceptable to being fooled into associating themselves with the "Think different" branding.
As soon as women see that glowing Apple logo on the top of the Mac laptops they instantly perk up. Attraction to rich, stupid guys is what the majority of women do best.
As a PC user the only response I have to that is...J00 R T3H SUXX0RS, ST00PID N00B!
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I find that most people who like Apple only do so due to their marketing department. I work at a university, and I can tell you that most Apple users love their pretty colors and rounded mice.
/. in quite some time. And considering some of the drivel that gets through, that's saying something.
I haven't seen an article so obviously biased and moronic on
why? forty-two.
I am a Mensa member, a PC user and an admirer of Mac hardware. However,I would like to point out that this kind of article by Mac zealots is just one more reason why I never get involved with the Mac community. The first thing the Mac evavgelists will tell you is how user friendly Macs are and preach to you about how any illiterate dumbass can use one. Well guess what, a product whose number one selling point is that any moron can use it is not exactly made for the intellectual elite now is it. If you are not a graphics or music professional using a Mac, you are some vegged out hippie who has just paid three times what a PC would cost you to do very little else than surf the web and run dated versions of Microsoft Office. Congratulations on your brilliant insight. Wait you say, Macs are so much more stable and secure. Ok, what you are now saying is that since you are too stupid (or lazy) to patch your machine and run anti-virus software you must pay three times the cost for an overpowered workstation not to have do so. Another sign of your doubtlessly superior insight. With their expensive cost, propietary architecture and limited software availability (especially video games) Macs are very much a niche market product right now. Having a user base who describe themsleves as evangelists and feel the need to insult the other 98% of the computing public to justify purchasing a Mac does not help either. Although I admire very much the intricate beauty and power of Macs especially now that they run on Unix. I PERSONALLY see no need to purchase a Mac. I also see no need to insult those that do. A flame baiting troll of an article like this never should have made it to the front page of slashdot and will effect my decsion to further support this website with my money and time if articles like this continue to be posted.