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[mpheadley]

And they enjoy spending much more money on things that look nice but aren't any more functional.

[rgersmrk]

Apple users = IEmo?

[mekingpin]

Spot on article. Apple users are self-aborbed twiddlers that spend all day dreaming, spending and generally being non-productive....kind of like posting comments on news stories like this one.

HEY??? Maybe I should get an AirBook so I can do this while I eat my scone at Starbucks tomorrow. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[diatomg]

If "open-minded" means excessively self-righteous and condescending with limited basis to be so, then I agree.

[snorg]

Yup they are open minded, thats why they like iPods, the ear buds stop cold drafts from blowing straight through....
:)

[FenderGuy2112]

Haha, Nice one mekingpin! :^0

I agree with you completely; for that is the exact way I see Apple users as but you kind of just "summed it up" for me.
If openmindedness is spending money on shiny propertitary products/software/hardware with Apple's name on it, I don't think that's very useful, that's just marketing (I think).

FenderGuy2112

[pcwcraig24]

Not really. We use ear buds to block out the sound of all the Windows Users whining about another virus!

[slydawwg]

Dude! Your totally messing with my karma ! This might also mean a mantra shift . Bollocks !

[snorg]

Yabut
MS isnt the only one Apple has issues too.
The main difference is PC people are willing to talk about it.

[Adama]

LOL Guys, I've never laughed so much reading just one thread! Now that the writers are on strike, you guys should try writing MAC vc PC commercials, I'm serious!

Just wanted to share something with you all, check out this link www.macorpc.org/ Hope you enjoy it!

[GuestJim]

Funny article! Did Apple pay for the study?
The voluntarily Mac users I know are among the most closed minded, liberal, arrogant, egotistical, and aren't "more assured of their own superiority," they take it as fact that they are right. Fortunately it's easy to shut them up, you just correct them on something that they know you're right about.
When it comes to viruses, here's what enters my mind, to write a good virus (as in well written) you'd have to be experienced with computers. If the majority of viruses are for Windows, then wouldn't it stand to reason that the virus writers are using Windows? That the majority of further-than-above-average users are using Windows?
I also have a question about the Macbook Air. Doesn't having to carry around an external disk drive, which probably requires separate power (don't have one, don't know) defeat the purpose of an "ultra-portable" laptop?
Feel free to correct me, with facts, on any of this.

[merdith]

I just think apples look cool with the little apple logo on the laptop at starbucks. I bought an acer aspire and it's great and only 500 dollars. Apples are cool and cute and usually in front of an intelligent person who drinks gross frapuchino instead of a plain latte with 4 shots. Artistic people probably loathe apple as a corporation. Apple does have good audio video and things artists use so maybee it's divided into the dork and the artist.

[Kersen]

wow I am a converted mac user and I don't fit any of that criteria. The reason I switched to mac was cause I wanted the best out there. I was sick of windows and how buggy and unpolished it is.. And unless the next release of windows is a quantum leap I don't see going back. But I don't get all the animosity towards mac users its their money they are blowing. NOT yours.. sure I could spend half what I spent and purchased a laptop I will replace in a few years and sit and bitch about what is not working correctly. ( a funny story since I switched to mac my wife says I am alot more enjoyable to be around cause I am not pissed off at my computer any more it just works) but good luck

[AuroraDizon]

I just want to remind you all to keep it cool and not to personally attack one another.

[Kersen]

just so I am clear I did not think I personally attacked anyone no where in my discussion did I acknowledge anyone in particular. If I did let me know...

[Cosmo]

The offending posts were removed, it's just a reminder to those who may lose their temper over the thread.

[Adama]

I don't really know if Mac users are more open-minded or self-assured. I know of at least one person who is a huge, everything-Mac fan who seems stand-offish. But that's not Mac nor Job's fault anyway.


Everybody has a right to their own opinion. Some people love PCs for a variety of reasons, or because that's what they can afford, some people love MACs because that's all they want.

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It reminds me of that commercial -- "sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't..."

[GuestJim]

This isn't in response to Adama's post, this forum is just set up so differently from the others I've been at, that I can't find where to just post a reply to the thread and not a specific person. This is just a general comment.

I would like to propose a new study, this one to find out just how many people have found bugs with a Windows OS, their computer expertise, what the bug was, the severity of the bug, and whether the bug was fixed (and naturally which OS it is). I find it interesting how PC's stereotypically have thousands of bugs making them inoperable, yet I can't think of one bug I've found on my XP machine, and one my Vista computer, the three times I had to reinstall Vista were due to a supposedly Vista compatible program, not a Vista bug (that's not to say the Vista bug wasn't a big one, but I was able to get a disk with a Vista repair feature which took care of it).

Now, what I'm about to say is kind of mean, but please understand what I'm trying to say. Where do the reports of bugs come from most, those that know what they're doing or those that don't? I could see how some things being set one way instead of another could be seen as a bug, but then that isn't a bug with the OS (whatever it is, Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.) that's a bug with the user who doesn't necessarily know how to go in a change a setting. Is the average user, that everyone hear's about, competent enough to fix or diagnose bugs on their own? My sense is no because of my experience with tech specialists, my father's with tech departments, and my brother's with everyday people and more.

[Kersen]

yeah I thought she was talking about something I wrote cause it was a reply to my thread...