Are Mac Users Smarter???
 

This article claims that mac users are smarter...but take a look at it and see for your self...im not sure about that....


Read it and let me in on what u think...i myself will have to stay with the PC users on this one...sorry Steve Jobs...

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Mac users are smarter and richer than us...yeah, great. With less than 5% of the market, that simply means that when 40 smart people buy a Mac, versus 40 smart people buying a PC, their 40 smart people are going to account for hm, about 10% of Apple's gross sales (well, maybe that's exaggerating a little, but the point stands).

"The greater affluence and education level of those who surf using a Mac is attributable in part to [... Apple's] pricier machines." Uh, so basically people buy Macs, which are more expensive, simply because they're more expensive? Yeah...no wonder you're going to get richer people as a user base.

"[Mac users'] longer surfing histories and their greater willingness to buy products via the Web, makes Mac consumers a prime catch for marketers." Hm, interesting that they're buying things online, seeing as how retail stores carry relatively nothing in the Mac department. They simply have to buy their things online, because they can't get them anywhere else.

"Nielsen/NetRatings said that 70.2 percent of Mac users online have a college degree, compared with 54.2 percent of all Web surfers." Well, maybe that's because it takes a f-ing college degree to get everything set up right on the Mac, and find some obscure place to download functional Mac internet software. Believe me, after spending 2+ hours setting up iMacs and an Apple AirPort at my job, after having set it up with PCs and a Netgear RT311 in about 10 minutes...a college degree can come in handy.


If 70% of online Mac users have a college degree, that means they're sure not reaching a very big audience... To have a PC, you don't need a college degree, plus there's so much more one can do for functionality, upgradeability, and whatever else one would want on PCs. On a Mac it may be easy to transfer music to an iPod, but that means it natively, easily supports about 0.01% of the market mp3 players. Additionally, if you want to have it function as a portable HDD, like they advertise it can, you do have to do extra work, and that college degree will come in handy.

Well, whatever...I think I've lost my train of thought here...maybe because I don't have my college degree like 70% of the online Mac users, which make up about 0.7% of the web. Either that, or it's 3:15 AM...you know, either way.

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Yeah, I agree totally with Omega. Take for example my uncle, a chemical engineer, he only uses Macs. He not poor by anymeans; He lives on a hill in an exclusive neighborhood just near the beach. He fits perfectly in to the generalization presented: rich and educated. But, basically, Mac is catering to mostly the educated who has more money.

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 Let's look at the facts.  They got a slower computer with almost no upgrade options, and nearly no product availiblity (seen any great MAC titles lately??)  My question is "Mac (l)users are smarter than what?"

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What if? I ask you what if a person were to use both PC and MACs. What would the question be then?

And exactly what is the importance. That's like asking who's smarter, someone who uses AMD or Intel CPU's?

Common, we can't be this board to come up with these silly questions. Or can we  ::) ?

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I think that smarter is a relative term. In my opinion, a bum can smarter than a rich fellow any day. Everyone knows that MACs are used for digital editing. That's about all they are good for. Editing pictures and sound and stuff. Smarter, I don't think so. It's that tiny little vertical market that they have.

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I agree on these above posts...they obviously dont point out the intelligence of the PC buyers..as there are many...and i think if the 2 were compared...well id have to say that the PC would chug just a bit harder...id have to agree w/ GR on this that there arent that many upgrades that come w/ the macs as they are either a version or 2 behind most PC programs

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This question has absolutely nothing to do with the buyers/users/ IQ. But it does deal with praticallity, ease of use, (user friendly) available software, etc etc, neirher does it deal with which is superior. The public does not always support what is superior ( if macs were ) . Marketing strategies also has a lot to do with what's popular. Actually, many of the MAC features were borrowed and introduced to the PC, such as USB, SCSI and probally FireWire.

When VCR's were introduced way back in the 60's, the BETA Technology was the best, but the public bought VHS. When I worked as a TV Pioneer in the 60's, setting up new TV Stations, and adding color to the older black/white stations, CBS had what was called the " Flying Spot Scanner " Color Technology and was trying very hard to get it standardized, it was far superior to the NTSC method that the FCC finally adopted as U.S. Standard. Then there is the SECAM and PAL methods that European countries use, which could be argured is superior to our NTSC color standard.
BTW, when was the last time you programed your VCR and set it's clock ? and didn't you ask for opinions ?

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ROFLMAO  :D

Good one Jinx - 12:00 blinky blinky. Seen that at so many homes.

Still have to show my ol lady how to use her cell phone.

Great laugh to start the day!!

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Sony was the co-inventor of FireWire..and coincidentally just about the only PC manufacturer who's pushing FireWire...but yes, some good technology has come from Apple. Take the GUI, and mouse, for example...

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Yeah... who likes those lovely mac commercials TRYING to get stupid people to buy macs.  jsut one word describes it the best.. sad...

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I posted this in the mac parody thread too, but here it is again. It's a paper I wrote about PC vs. Mac a little less than a year ago. Enjoy.

Mac vs. PC

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[quote author=Grinnin Reaper link=board=general&num=1026633458&start=0#3 date=07/15/02 at 13:11:49]

 Let's look at the facts.  They got a slower computer with almost no upgrade options, and nearly no product availiblity (seen any great MAC titles lately??)  My question is "Mac (l)users are smarter than what?"
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[quote author=wizbones link=board=general&num=1026633458&start=0#4 date=07/15/02 at 13:59:07]
What if? I ask you what if a person were to use both PC and MACs. What would the question be then?

And exactly what is the importance. That's like asking who's smarter, someone who uses AMD or Intel CPU's?

Common, we can't be this board to come up with these silly questions. Or can we  ::) ?
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I believe that both of those comments were not addressing the question directly (plz take no offense).

I just want to say a few more things about the topic. Macs are much more compatible than most of us are willing to give them credit for. The story used to be different, but now, with the mass use of USB, Macs can use the majority of the same accessories that PC users can. Macs are actually faster than PC's when it comes to processing power simply because Motorola didn't build them upon the archaic x86 platform and so they can advance that bottleneck without having to worry about compatiblity that AMD or Intel would worry about. Macs are not designed to be modular like PC's are and that makes the performance go up in all categories just because compatiblity isn't as much of an issue. They turn out more calculations per second than even the Athlons, and this can be proven when both are running Linux. There are a lot of add-on cards and features that you can't use with USB, such as video cards or hard drive arrays, that make a PC faster overall when using those features, but that is only because Mr. Gates got the early sales through deception. Macs are also simpler to use, and more stable because of the more advanced platform that Motorla uses, and so they offer a compelling option. They are how ever more expensive as they don't have as many mass sales and customers, and so this disuades many. With software, Macscan run most of the software a PC can run because of software Mac users can download that will run PC software. (Don't think I support Macs...read on>)

With that in mind, Macs would likely be a better choice to many users, especially those new to using a computer. For most of the more advanced PC users, however, we like and are used to customization, and so PC's are better because of the modular design which is inherent. Windows does offer much more tweakability than the other OS's and so we can make our systems fit how we want them to. We can make the systems ours', not something that everyone else has. PC's are a better choice for many of us, including me, but don't knock Mac about their compatability or performance, knock them about their ability to be customized. Knock them about not getting more companies to create non-USB parts for them to make them more modular (like a PC).

As for the question itself (yeah I already answered, just have more to say), Mac users are smarter, but not in the way we are immediately conlcluding. They are usually the people that are more IQ intelligent and have the money to afford a more stable system than a PC. They have more intellect than many PC buyers, such as those who want a bargain-basement machine. It's not likely that a PhD is going to have a tough time buying a Mac; it is likely that someone who has not been educated and cannot get as good of a job that will go for a bargain-basement system just to get the experience that a computer can offer. Most of this is fact, not opinion.

Just some notes:
Jinx: IEEE created USB, but Mac and Sony co-invented Firewire (which was advanced off the 1394 platform that IEEE created for USB), but Firewire never took off with the drive that USB took off because Sony and Mac wanted the royalties that ended up costing them sales in other areas.

Omega: Good Article, had correct pro's and con's for each (for the time written)

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No offense taken Vee_Ess,

But the thread is in fact who do you think is smarter MAC users or PC users.

Now if I understand the question it means the people using them, which is smarter.

Silly question, I just adlibed what if one was to use both? And really it is a silly question. It's the same as I stated before "Who is smarter someone who uses AMD or Intel? Does it really matter.

The question, there is no real answer. The thread isn't about MAC configuration, compatibility and the like. Nor is it about PC's and where they came from. It's about the Luser I mean users that use them.

No big deal, makes for an amusing thread. At least no one is beating each other up in this one  ::)

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vee_ess: Thanks for the compliment on my writing.

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No offense takin' Vee_Ess I was just addin' some humor with my sarcastic answer.  In my book if your buying something with that many limited options just how intelligent could you really be?  I have a friend that use Mac's at work.  Not one good word has came from his mouth about the system.  Haven't used one personaly and don't want to in all honesty.

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http://www.penny-arcade.com/view2002-07-12rl.html

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I'm getting a 404 error here...could be server-side problems...or linked wrong.

its a marketing scam prob.


people will buy if they think they will be part of something special the smart people

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