Mac users are 'open, liberal, superior'

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Mac users are 'open, liberal, superior'

Postby Antony » Thu 17 Jan, 2008 9:46 pm

There's an interesting report from Macworld UK.

Mac users are open-minded, liberal, and a little smug, according to brand advertising network, Mindset Media.

The company today released a Mindset Profile of Mac users, which the company generated from a recent study conducted using Nielsen's Online panel across 7,500 survey respondents.

According to the research, Mac users have much in common with the open-minded, liberal population. The study revealed that people who are highly open-minded are 60 per cent more likely than people in the general population to have purchased a Mac.

These purchasers are also more liberal, less modest, and more assured of their own superiority than the population at large, it is claimed.


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Postby Edward » Fri 18 Jan, 2008 8:52 pm

They didn't talk to Linux users? :mrgreen:
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Postby richard mitnick » Fri 25 Jan, 2008 5:55 pm

You know, it has really gotten dull around here, what with everything working so well, FF, TBird, the questions about NN9 quieting down, so I figured I would look around for someone to talk to.

And, this is what I find, Antony reflecting on the state of mankind?

So, O.K., what can one say about Windows users, other than noting their (our) ubiquity. Are Vista folks (me) trailblazers for the herd? Are XP ( actually, also me) users sticks-in the-mud?

Why, I bet we even have some Win2000 folks, some WinME folks and a couple of people trying to resurrect Win95.

You know what? Forget all of that stuff. ARE YOU A CRUNCHER?????!!!!! Have you taken my suggestion and visited BOINC? or World Community Grid? Are you excited by the prospect of helping add to the knowledge base on Cancer, AIDS, Malaria, Dengue Fever with WCG? Are you crunching for LHC@home for C.E.R.N. as they get the Large Haydron Collider going to find the Higgs Boson? Are you looking for pulsars with Einstein@home? Or doing protein folding with Rosetta@home?

There are wonderful projects, with really cool screen savers if you want them, you can join a team, SillyDog could have its own team, like Mozillazine (they are with folding@home, Stanford University, not part of BOINC), you could start a team for you own local organization like I did.

We have less than one million brothers and sisters. We need all of the help we can get, and we will take anybody, Win, Mac, Linux, some of you Mac guys who are MacWin (I just coined that word, for those who have secretly put Windows on their Macs)

This is all fabulous stuff which is totally secure and costs you just what it costs to run your computer, be it Windows, Mac, or Linux, about the cost of running a 100watt bulb.

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Postby Lorraine » Wed 26 Mar, 2008 1:28 am

Well I am contemplating whether to buy a new PC or a Mac.

I was playing around with my grandson's Macbook and I was making
a webpage just for fun, he just showed where it was and left me to play around.

That I did, and I should have been grabbing the squares on the corners properly on the images, but I wasn't.

So I couldn't get them the correct size I wanted. Anyway, it looked a mess and he just came and got it back to what it was supposed to be in no time.... so it seems quite easy once you get the hang of it.

I evidently didn't, but his girlfriend arrived at the time he was going to show me how to work it, and she came before me........:(
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Postby biffadams » Tue 15 Jul, 2008 1:17 pm

ah, the much debated mac vs. pc issue.

after using both, i tend to lean more towards the mac, especially for the ease of creative applications like website making.

the pc is much better for music and games.
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Postby gunterkat » Wed 16 Jul, 2008 9:15 pm

I want to put Yellow Dog Linux on an old Power PC Mac, just for fun, to see how well it works.

Sorry, I know that's off topic, but my humble opinion is that the Mac vs. PeeCee debate has been done to death. Windows folks like their stuff, and Mac folks like their stuff. That's just the way it is. :wink:
Personally, I like the Mac for its intuitive user interface. But Windows has its place.

It's all good. :D
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