Are Mac Users Smarter than PC Users? 987
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!
Pudge... (Score:3, Informative)
Anyway, we all know that the really smart users run Gentoo, highly optimized for whatever hardware they're using!
Re:Pudge... (Score:3, Funny)
Proof (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pudge... (Score:3, Informative)
I run Gentoo, OSX and Windows 2000 for my server, laptop and workstation, respectively. On the server, I want flexibility, stability and security. On the workstation, I want the ability to run industry standard software packages and perform intensive operations without ever having to muck about with the system's configuration. And
Re:Pudge... (Score:4, Insightful)
The dumb folks are more likely to use whatever is sat in front of them, not having the knowledge or courage to move away from what they know, even though other things could be better.
Intelligents are more likely to try different things, to find the best deal.
Flamebait (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Flamebait (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Flamebait (Score:4, Interesting)
Those that can afford nicer toys are those that usually are smart enough to get better jobs and make more money. Great article...
It must be true. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It must be true. (Score:5, Funny)
Sure, y'all get 90-95% of them. But you know what they say about 90-95% of anything, right?
Re:It must be true. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It must be true. (Score:5, Funny)
Macs are chick magnets (Score:5, Interesting)
Usually the first time a girl enters my room she is immediately drawn to my Titanium Powerbook. Soft coos are heard while she breathes in its elegant beauty and caresses its curves. "It's so thin!" she says.
She notices what's onscreen. I've been talking on AIM, but there's these little characters with colored talk balloons! That's just so cute.
She'll pick up the iPod next, and start playing with its little wheel. She flips it over and looks at herself in the reflective back. She likes how the lights come on when she touches it and the little red text appears on the buttons.
But I'm sure you get the same response from your "gaming machine" with a clunky CRT.
Re:Macs are chick magnets (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Macs are chick magnets (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure that needs any kind of qualification, or even comment.
It's economics really... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:It's economics really... (Score:3, Insightful)
Most PC users I know bemoan the cost of a new mac, yet they'll gladly spend $25k on a brand new car that loses $5k of that value the day they drive it home.
That is, spend 20 minutes driving it home to sit in front of their $400 PC for the next 4 hours.
People choose their priorities.
Re:It's economics really... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:It's economics really... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's economics really... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's economics really... (Score:5, Insightful)
You could probably boil this all down to bullsh*t, though. I mean, the whole story, not your post. It's not a scientific study, the results aren't meaningful, and so there's no need to 'boil it down' at all.
[this coming from a Mac user who thinks he's smarter than everyone else... but it has nothing to do with being a Mac user]
Re:It's economics really... (Score:3, Funny)
Not to mention the way these places keep crapflooding the industry by advertising on radio and TV that computer people are in demand and highly paid:
Troll food: I'm hungry! (Score:5, Interesting)
For a more realistic and interesting baseline, I collected about 2,800 lines of Slashdot discussion contributions and ran style against them to get the following ratings summary along with a lot of detail data omitted here:
Kincaid: 7.7
ARI: 8.0
Coleman-Liau: 9.7
Flesch Index: 72.4
Fog Index: 10.7
Lix: 37.1 = school year 5
SMOG-Grading: 9.8
Notice that these results apply to comments from Slashdotters, not to the text on which they're commenting. Look at the source articles and you get very different results because, of course, most are professionally written or edited -- although there is an interesting oddity in that ratings for files made up by pasting together stories posted by "Michael" are consistently at least one school year higher than comparable accumulations made from postings (other than press releases) by "Cowboyneal."
Yeah, first off, I want to know what 2,800 lines he took. I would hope he didn't use a random method of comment gathering as anything under +3 is generally junk (and thus why it holds there). I want to know if he has taken a look at more recent Slashdot banter or comments generated since its inception. It's a well known fact that the signal to noise ratio has increased over the years (as is expected as the site grows in "popularity").
When he mentions that he wasn't performing this "study" on the text Slashdotters were commenting on, does that mean that he wasn't paying attention to the particular stories we were responding to? That could have a major impact on the results.
Yes, all of us Slashdotters are stuck-up assholes, but I seriously doubt that the higher rated comments are written at a 5th grade reading level unless you are looking at -1 to +5 instead of +1 and above (which I assume that most people read at).
Perhaps he posted this, knowing full well we would troll it, just to prove his point?
I guess if this hadn't originally been posted to MacNewsWorld I would I have found it extremely funny that the storey was posted by "pudge" instead of Cowboyneal...
Re:Troll food: I'm hungry! (Score:5, Insightful)
> that most people read at).
Right on. Judging Slashdot by the -1 comments is a bit like judging a magazine by the articles it rejects.
Actually, even that's not fair, since it's much easier to post GNAA to Slashdot than it is to submit an article to a magazine...
Re:Troll food: I'm hungry! (Score:5, Insightful)
Michael smart? (Score:5, Insightful)
In reality, it's a pretty funny article. Good read. Best quote from the article:
Re:Michael smart? (Score:5, Funny)
That was the first thing I thought of too. And not just the h4x0r-speak, but most posts are fired off pretty quickly and carlessly, and often with a focus on being funny or interesting, and not on making sense. I wonder how "In Soviet Russia, our new overlord Beowolf clusters don't have an imagination to imagine you, you insensitive clod!" (or other nonsense) would rate on one of these systems. It doesn't check for content, right?
Anyway, the funniest thing about this article has to be this guy's picture. I keep thinking he looks like my grandfather, stoned, being distracted by 'pretty lights'.
No! (Score:5, Funny)
Sincrly,
PC User
No (Score:5, Funny)
-Peter
Re:No (Score:5, Funny)
Mac users smarter and more articulate? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Mac users smarter and more articulate? (Score:5, Funny)
Better talking does not equate smarter! I'm deeply injured by that insidiation. On behalve of every one like me, I would like to make known: Plees have regard for speeking-impared peoples. And also riting-impared. This is an outage!
Oh yeah (Score:5, Funny)
I had to buy a BMW because Apple doesn't make speakers yet for my iPod.
PC users. What a bunch of dumbasses.
Re:Oh yeah (Score:3, Funny)
Zork
Breakout
Super Breakout
ummm.....
*Photoshop?*
(My apologies to Gus).
As a Mac user and Apple employee (Score:5, Funny)
LOL U SUK LINUX GRAMMOR N00B.
Sincerely,
- Twid
Please, kill the author... thank you. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Please, kill the author... thank you. (Score:5, Funny)
It's in the "It's Funny. Laugh." section - this is supposed to provoke a flamewar just for the sheer hell of it. As a Mac, PC, Solaris and Linux user, I intend to sit back, have a chuckle, and toast the marshmellows using the searing heat radiating from my browser window...
Cheers,
Ian
Those who are truely intellegent... (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean, if you don't use them all, how can you really say one is better than the others?
Re:Those who are truly intellegent... (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, you can't spell. Unless you were talking to a fish.
Better question... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Better question... (Score:5, Funny)
Not smarter, but crack users sure do talk faster.
That makes sense to me. (Score:5, Insightful)
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
Typical Mac user has changed over the years (Score:5, Insightful)
Granted there are still "oooh, it looks sexy" Mac users, but those are quickly becoming the exception, not the rule.
BTW: take a look at some of the Mac books at Barnes and Noble or Borders, almost half of them are thick, serious unix books!
just can't let that one lie... (Score:3, Interesting)
I don't think it was fright that was at play the first day in 1984 when I first used a Mac at the computer store in White Plains NY - I can remember exactly when and where - and saw the Finder, MacWrite and MacPaint all playing nicely with wach other and doing incredibly useful stuff and all that useful stuff coming out of an Imagewriter just like it looked on the screen.
I daydreamed, goggle-eyed about what might have been in the
I'm a mac user and I hate these articles. (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, the average mac user probably is smarter than the average pc user. The 4% of mac users are also in the upper 4% of the income scale. Guess what? Well educated smart people tend to have more money than others, your average BMW owner is probably "smarter" than your average kia owner.
Looking at this in any way that's supposed to matter is just elitist. Moving on . . .
Re:I'm a mac user and I hate these articles. (Score:3, Insightful)
How do you explain Paris Hilton?
He never said that people with money are smart, he said people who are smart tend to have more money. Paris Hilton is probably just another case of Trophy Wife Syndrome*.
* this is a theory I've developed over the years to explain a certain trend I've noticed among rich folks I've met in the Brentwood/Bel Air/Beverly Hills area. Trophy Wife Syndrome: (1)a man is a shrewd financial genius and makes GOBS of money;
Sigh... (Score:5, Funny)
son of troll.. (Score:3)
a troll article written about a troll article.
yea yea yea..
perl people are smarter than php people.
java duuudes are smarter than the whole world
and now, a mac user thinks they are smarter than a PC user..
bla bla bla bla..
apparently a lot of people don't remember usenet when it was worth a damn and the old beige-toaster argument about the mac users and their babbling about how they are "better"..
this is not news, it is a troll.
The funniest part (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The funniest part (Score:3, Insightful)
mac users and communications (Score:4, Insightful)
What do you expect? (Score:3, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
I doubt it. (Score:3, Funny)
On MacNewsWorld's part, I suspect... I suspect... Damn. What's that thing they call it when you hire your own family to work for you?
Neopolitanism. That's it. I suspect *that*.
The Snowsports Analogy (Score:5, Funny)
Windows users are alpine skiers. They're the most common, they're generally well-behaved and not big risk-takers, and they're looked down on by the other groups. They also tend to crash a lot. Grandma is an alpine skier.
Linux users are snowboarders. They tend to be younger, out-of-control, risk-takers, they don't really crash as much, and they annoy the skiers (for no good reason, they're just annoying). Teenage boys with eyebrow piercings are snowboarders.
Mac users are telemark skiers. They aren't as adventurous as the snowboarders, and they have more in common with the skiers, but they also have this smooth, sophisticated sheen of coolness about them that neither of the other two groups have. Barbara Streisand is probably a telemarker.
Tele skiers get invited to the highest-class parties; snowboarders throw the best parties; alpine skiers have to get the kids in bed because there's school tomorrow. :)
What a waste of time (Score:5, Insightful)
The sad part is that this made it to the
*nix users still seem above the mac users (Score:5, Interesting)
Correlation of Education and Cost (Score:5, Interesting)
The answer is grey (Score:4, Interesting)
Today it is the PC-Windows user who does not need to know anything, while the MAC (OS X) user should know something about how to operate the computer. Of course there are still many ignorant Mac Users (not the Slashdotters) who don't know that OS X is built on BSD, never see get into CLI, etc.
BUT, when you say PC users, you have to include Linux User. I'll guarantee that ANYONE that has any kind of Linux OS installed knows more than the average Mac user about computers. BUT, a BSD geek using OS X probably is smarter than the average linux user.
Make sense? I didn't think so.
They must be (Score:5, Insightful)
Makes me wish.... (Score:5, Interesting)
The email responses I received from each set of browsers users was very different. On average, Netscape users seemed more educated and had a longer average word and email length than IE users. most IE users had a 1 or 2 line email where as Netscape users usually where 2 paragraphs at least.
I should release that study sometime.
Re:Makes me wish.... (Score:4, Interesting)
"Blocking IE? Oh, great, it's another of those 'IE sucks and I hate it therefore I won't let anyone visit my site because I am elitist' people. Screw that, I've got better things to do."
"Blocking Firefox? Maybe they don't realize what the market share is like. I should email him and let him know."
Obviously, in each case, I'd end up writing vastly different kinds of email (well, in the first case I wouldn't write email at all, but hey.) Just categorizing it on "browser type" really doesn't tell you much.
(And I've run into both kinds of site in the last month, which is why I know those would be my reactions.
Temporal Distortion (Score:4, Informative)
That would be the Queen's english. Perhaps it's merely a matter of temporal distortion.
Grade level of Slashdot posts (Score:4, Funny)
We're going to be revamping the moderation system [slashdot.org] in the months to come, and we should totally provide a bonus for people who manage to write at higher than a fifth grade level. Well, that'd probably be way too easy to game, but still, it'd be interesting to see if that would improve the quality of discussion...
So? (Score:5, Interesting)
This study doesn't say anything about the level of intelligence, but merely the type of person that uses x computer.
Correlation and causation lesson (Score:5, Informative)
One group may be smarter than the other, but it has NOTHING to do with actually using the type of computer!
It has everything to do with the life choices that we make and how we go about making decisions. It also has to do with how one has to come about making the choice of Mac or Linux over PC.
First of all, the easiest answer to the question "which operating system should I use?" is going to be a windows PC for at least one or two more decades. Since this is the easiest answer, its the answer most often taken. Lazy people, uninformed people, and people just can't possibly understand how a computer works will take the easy answer.
However, with Macs and Linux, the users arrived at that information differently. They've worked on many machines, perform various functions, and do more than email and surf the web. They are deeper into their computer experience because getting into that experience is important and they learn more. These same people tend to be mroe logical and research their decisions more because that's the nature of everything they do.
Second, the two above statements are not absolutes, they are tendencies. Apple and linux users tend to look more into their computer experience because they want more out of it, but that's not to say there are no PC users who do the same thing. However, due to the tendency that more PC users are simply looking for that "simple answer" this then skews the overall social makeup of the PC user base towards the less analytical and creative of the general american populace.
Third, its all about perception. The easy answer is perceived as easy. You can argue its not so easy, what with bugs and viruses and spyware, and that you will pay for it later. However, that's not what the general populace thinks. In my opinion they are misinformed, but they are definitely underinformed about their choices. Linux and Macs require a larger investment than most people are willing to put in, but if you make that investment it tends to be returned pretty quickly in one form or another. It's just like the way investment bankers work. They know you have to invest to get something back. Most people look at their PC as a TV or Microwave oven. To them it's just an appliance that needs regular updates. A similar investment can be made in a PC, you just go about it differently.
The phrase "Mac/Linux users are smarter/more creative/better than PC users" serves no purpose other than to get people riled up. There are tons of better ways to explain it but they take several paragraphs, like this post does.
Are Mac Users Trolling PC Users? (Score:3, Funny)
sovereignty and linguistic minutiae (Score:3, Funny)
king's English
This may be picking nits and I'm sure some English major will correct me but shouldn't it be Queen's English? There hasn't been a king in England for quite some time.
(BTW, if I'm right then must be a mac user cause I have a 17" iMac. If I'm wrong then I'm a PC user because I have a Dell as well. If I get flamed for either I do have a linux box or two under the desk.)
Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:5, Interesting)
The question that is then raised is, "Do Mac users have a better grip on the English language, or does the Macintosh provide a more comfortable platform for professional writers?"
Sesequepedalianism does not, however, imply 'intelligence'.
Sesequepedalianism? That's not even in most dictionaries!
Show off.
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:5, Funny)
> Sesequepedalianism? That's not even in most dictionaries!
Even more disturbing, check out the first google result! [google.com]
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:5, Funny)
PC user.
Think Different... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:5, Funny)
In the works of Steve Wozniak, a predominant concept is the distinction between figure and ground. Woz suggests the use of the neostructural paradigm of narrative to read and analyse class. But if the Macintosh camp holds, we have to choose between the Jobist image and capitalist subconceptual theory.
"Reality is part of the dialectic of language," says Jordan Hubbard. Hubbard implies that the works of Jobism are empowering. Thus, an abundance of theories concerning cultural deconstructivism may be discovered.
In the works of Steve Jobs, a predominant concept is the concept of patriarchialist culture. Hubbard uses the term 'Jobist image' to denote a posttextual paradox. Therefore, the subject is interpolated into a capitalist discourse that includes sexuality as a totality.
The main theme of the works of the Jobist is the role of the observer as participant. In The Cry of Jobs, Hubbard examines the macintosh camp. The meaninglessness, and subsequent paradigm, of cultural deconstructivism depicted in Jobs' "Art in Technology" is also evident in The Moor's Last Sigh, although in a more mythopoetical sense. However, Wozniak suggests the use of the Jobist image to read class.
~
Postmodernism essay generator (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:5, Funny)
(Written on a 2x2.0 G5. But you knew that already, I'm sure.)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:5, Funny)
I get SPAM e-mails with all those words in them. I just thought they were putting random words in the message, I didn't realize that it's Mac users who are peddling Viagra.
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:4, Interesting)
Executive Summary: His translation goes like this...
"PCs are for the unimaginative. The Mac lifestyle appeals to a smug elite who find happiness in blowing wads of cash on shiny noisy shit."
The whole analysis:
--- The PC is merely a succedaneum for satisfying the nympholepsy of nullifidians. The haecceity of the enchiridion of arcane and recdonite elements of the Mac gestalt appeals to the oniomaina of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis find more than fugacious fullment in its felicific experience. ---
Gemeinschaft = "community"
Sprachgefühl = "language feeling"
'gestalt' is not a bad word...though it's pretty much only used in a psychological or, at least, biological context...
succedaneum = "substitute"
nympholepsy = "frenzy believed by ancient peoples to have been induced by nymphs"...WTF? The real fun of using 'big words' is the play among their connotations and denotations...you tip your hand when the absurd stares at you so plainly...we're talking about computers, not woodland sprites...
nullifidian = "of no faith, or not trusting to faith for salvation"
haeccity = "this-ness"
enchiridion = "handbook"
recondite = "not easily understood"
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:4, Interesting)
I could go on and on, but basically, it's just a really nice user experience for novices and advanced users alike. Most of the criticism I've encountered are people complaining about how macs were 10 years ago, not how they are now. They're MUCH less quirky and I think most of the critics simply havent spent enough time with a next-gen Mac to appreciate it.
I've often referred to them as the BMW of computers. Are they the fastest? No, especially if you're a mechanic and built your own hot-rod. Are they expensive? Yeah, but not too bad at entry-level. The advantage, is every aspect completely solid and designed to make the best possilbe experience for the operator. Test drive a BMW 3-series and its hard to complain. Test drive a PowerBook, I think you'll find similar results.
Re:Mac vs PC- intelligence of the user (Score:4, Insightful)
While the sophmoric use of vocabulary for purposes of showing off is generally obnoxious, there are valid reasons to use language as powerfully as one can.
Yes, effective communication must often take the education level of the audience into account. However, let us not dumb down all language in order to satisfy the lowest common denominator.
Re:Article text in case of slashdotting! (Score:5, Interesting)
[...]
Kincaid: 7.7
ARI: 8.0
Coleman-Liau: 9.7
Flesch Index: 72.4
Fog Index: 10.7
Lix: 37.1 = school year 5
SMOG-Grading: 9.8
For comparison, here are the statistics for the article itself:
Kincaid: 7.1
ARI: 7.3
Coleman-Liau: 11.3
Flesch Index: 69.0
Fog Index: 9.8
Lix: 36.7 = school year 5
SMOG-Grading: 9.7
Mac users may or may not be smarter than PC users, but Paul Murphy is evidently not any smarter than the average slashdot poster.
Re:Article text in case of slashdotting! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Article text in case of slashdotting! (Score:5, Insightful)
1. The controls on this 'study' are horrid. I'm not sure if the PC Mag forum is moderated or not, but slashdot can be considered unmoderated. If you are not familiar with Macintouch, their reader contributions are not submitted to a web form, but emailed directly to an editor. It would be natural to presume that the editor can then cherry-pick the best and erudite of responses and filter out the off-topic and poorly worded ones as well.
2. In general, Mac users tended to cluster into the scientific, education, and creative communities. Mac using may be self selecting based on the areas of need for their professional foci.
3. Leading from 2, the presumption that a correlation between Mac usage and 'smarts' does not mean a causal one. Just because you must use a Mac does not mean you like to use Macs, nor does Mac usage make you smarter.
That's all I've got to say about this 'study'.
Disclaimer: I use Macs, and I like them. I use PCs, and I like them (for the most part).
Re:Article text in case of slashdotting! (Score:5, Insightful)
Then again, it's only speculation. My English skills are hand over fist above every college graduate I've met in person.
Re:Article text in case of slashdotting! (Score:3, Interesting)
Front Page of Fark (direct dump)
Front Page of slashdot (direct dump)
Latest entry from my Journal (text only)
Cmdr Taco's latest J
Re:I say no (Score:3, Informative)
LOL! would that be ifconfig???
oops
I'm not so sure... (Score:5, Insightful)
I dunno about that. The typical Mac users (including and sometimes especially artists) I run across typically read at least one of the thick "Mac Bible" type reference books and love to show off all the little tricks they know. Times have changed since Mac users were just a group of folks too scared of DOS and not quite wealthy enough for a Sun, SGI, or Apollo workstation. Today Mac users have different reasons for using the platform (anti-Microsoft, unix roots, something new/different, strong DV25 media support, etc). Even the casual browsers in the mall Apple Stores seem to posess clue.
It seems to me that more and more of the clueless personal computer users/owners generally just buy whatever they use at work. Generally a Dell or Compaq. (It's funny trying to talk someone out of buying a Compaq--they often argue that they can't buy a Dell as they've never used one before and wouldn't know where to start!)
Re:I say no (Score:5, Insightful)
Mac users can't grasp things as simple as right click
Kinda hard to "right click" with a one-button mouse. Anyone who buys a 2-button USB mouse for a Mac can certainly "grasp" right-clicking; I did, and so did every other Mac user I've ever seen with a two-button mouse.
and totally wig out when they have to open a command prompt to do something like ipconfig
On Mac OS X, you don't need to use ipconfig, and that's the point. Use the Network Preference Pane, which is painless.
What you need to realize is that to most people computers are a means to an end, not an end unto itself. As a developer, I'm sometimes happy to tinker around with my work Linux machine, but mostly I just want to get something done and not have to tediously and endlessly tweak RedHat 9.0 to do what I want. I'd rather use Mac OS X and just get things done.
Re:I say no (Score:3, Funny)
He faints dead away, knowing that his expansive vocabulary, and advanced writing skills were useless...
Re:Oh really? (Score:5, Interesting)
This reminds me of the shock I got a few months ago when a Mac user buddy of mine was showing off the G4 he had bought on clearance when the G5s came out. I didn't think of him as a power user, especially since he never shelled out $20 for a better mouse. But I almost fell out of my chair when I asked him how many iTunes songs he had purchased... he did a command-tab to cycle thru his apps, stopping on a terminal window, and did a "find . -name "*.m4p" -print | wc -l"
Someone was doing their homework!
Re:Oh really? (Score:3, Funny)
Someone was doing their homework!"
Obviously not, because you don't need the -print. Mac users eh...
Re:Oh really? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:They may be Intellectually smarter... (Score:5, Insightful)
Funny, the same can be said for someone who buys a pre-built PC with a Windows license included.
Re:Stupid things i've heard mac users say. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Stupid things i've heard mac users say. (Score:5, Informative)
"Mac is best for desktop publishing"
I've heard more PC users say this than Mac users. It's indicative of the lack of general education about computers, and how little Apple spends to combat FUD. Apple has changed a lot in the last 10 years, but it seems that the general 'mindshare' is stuck back in '93. Still, I'd rather do DP on a mac than a PC anyday. Considering that's what I do for a living....
"Mac is best for video editing"
The TV show Scrubs is made with FCP - hardly 'prosumer'. There is the 'Sky Captain' movie that was done mostly with Macs. Renderfarms may be PC, sure. But the cutting and editing are done on a Mac in most cases.
Most PC users I know use a PC because they don't buy into all that Mac FUD.
heh. Most PC users I know have a PC because they have the appearance of being cheaper. At first. They also don't bother to educate themselves. Add up all the time/$$$ spent battling viruses alone, and you got yourself a Mac.
I know that what takes several hours on a PC (reinstall WinXP, apps, and drivers) takes less than an hour on my mac. I'll sit out on my deck having a beer or get some work done while you guys dick with Windows.
Re:Having both. (Score:4, Funny)