Hi, I am a Mac user.
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<div class="IPBDescription">And I am better than you.</div><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Psychologists claim users of Apple Mac computers have a distinct mindset that predetermines their responses to and interpretations of situations.
A study of 7,500 people found that Mac users are more liberal, less modest, and more assured of their own superiority than the population at large.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<a href="http://newslite.tv/2008/01/mac-users-have-different-brain.html" target="_blank">[Link]</a>
A study of 7,500 people found that Mac users are more liberal, less modest, and more assured of their own superiority than the population at large.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<a href="http://newslite.tv/2008/01/mac-users-have-different-brain.html" target="_blank">[Link]</a>
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Superiority complex, immodest AND liberal! It's the unholy trinity! Smite the blasphemers in the name of Repub Almighty!
Well stated, I like the way you think. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
"Hey use me, I am sexy and even a trained monkey can turn me on."
(yep, sexual innuendo intended)
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If you can fly a stealth bomber: Nice, that is a certainly complicated machinery you can handle. Be proud of it. Not alot of people can do that.
If you can use a MAC: Congratulations, you can use a gimped down PC with less features than the latest fashion models!
Secondly, I'm clever enough to actually get my head around a proper operating system, rather than being stuck with one so Borgian in design that it slowly saps away at all you folk what are less clever than me.
And finally (on an unrelated post), just wanted to point out the search text field in the upper right of this site has broken styling in Safari 3.0.4; You should have got me to do it in the first place. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
Calling OSX a stripped down, "nerfed" operating system is a shaky statement at the very best. Its graphical interface is designed to be friendly, simple, and easy to use (all good things, by the way), but underneath the thing is made out of Unix. Open up the terminal in OSX and you're given the absurdly powerful tool that is the command line. Give it the exit command, and you return to an effective interface that allows you to use programs quickly and easily, just like Windows. Seeing as the entire point to an operating system is easy and efficient program execution, OSX is not faulty before Windows.
My take? OSX is a designer brand of Linux. It's more expensive and carries the baggage of fashionable marketing. It's also too exclusive and too tightly closed down for the kind of tinkering I want to do with a computer.
I haven't actually owned a Mac, so I base this argument off of research and observation of friends' MacBooks over the last few months. I'll buy one (or hack one together) someday for fun/education, but until then, I welcome Mac gurus to shoot holes in my argument where it is inaccurate.
Just because it's advertized that way doesn't mean that's why people buy it. They don't have to market it to the nerds out there because they will do their own research anyway. I don't see how it can be considered a nerfed OS, outside of the fact that game designers like to pretend it doesn't exist when making their games.
Fam: That would require actually using Safari (I decided to stick with Firefox), and also noticing that the Search box was even there. And I think you meant upper left (that's where it is in both Safari and Firefox), though I don't know what's broken about it.
His brain is different remember, <i>different.</i>
Of course it is. The only reason the average soccer mom knows of the Mac OS is because of the commercials. Sure, there is an exception of users - namely, the programmers - who actually do use the UNIX command line interface, but the majority of users buy it because "It just works", like all the commercials like to reinforce.
If Apple didn't market its operating system as a lifestyle/cult, and its users didn't snob up my air with their constant bragging about how great they are because their operating system is for stupid people, I'd be more friendly toward the Mac operating system. If I were to remove all the high-horsedness, I'd view the Mac OS as an alternative browser that doesn't do anything more for me than Windows, and would probably get old in its hand-holding ways. I really liked Windows 2000 Professional for its "I'm a business operating system - deal with it" way of presenting information, because I didn't need the soccer-mom approach to computing. Now that I'm on Windows Vista, that part annoys me the most of anything on it.
I don't care what operating system people use. It's an operating system. What annoys me is that Linux and Mac users have a tendency to trumpet their choice as if it meant something, as if it was important to anyone else. So I like to poke fun, because they poke arrogance.
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Heh, great site.
Read the "Corn, Ethanol and Bullsh@t " part. Just gold!
Which is kinda like how the Bugatti Veyron has a second key that needs to be turned before it can reach absolute top speed.
Vista tried that.
Monse will have your balls for saying that! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
Confucius says:
You cannot harvest same cabbage twice!
Apple generally seems to be more innovative than MS does. Microsoft seems to like to copy Apple.
OSX -> Vista, iPod -> Zune