Smug alert! Mac users are snobs

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I'll let the quote, article, and video do the talking. I'll just sit here and quietly laugh my ass off.

article link: http://www.dailytech.com/Mac+Use+Leads+To+SnobEffect/article10729.htm
video link: http://www.thestreet.com/video/index.html?bcpid=1078966384&bclid=1137812485&bctid=1420178886

Mac Use Leads To "Snob-Effect"

Mac users, apparently concerned with self-image, were found to buy tooth-whitening products at a far greater rate than PC users. Mac users are also more likely to visit Starbucks, buy organic food, and own hybrid cars. Furthermore, Mac users buy on average 5 new pairs of sneakers a year, well above the average for non-users.

Mac users prefer notebooks to desktops, station wagons to SUVs. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Mac users prefer "green" products, even at a higher cost. Perhaps more surprisingly, Mac users are quite law abiding and are more likely than not to pay for music -- perhaps more due to the popularity of iTunes than their moral inclinations. Mac users are more satisfied with their purchase than PC users.

Interestingly, people surveyed with an "open personality" were found to be 60% more likely to buy a Mac. Some of the more esoteric observations on Mac users character are flattering, others aren't. Mac users were found to be more liberal, socially and politically. Mac users are also less modest and more assured of their own superiority.
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Some of the comments are freakin hilarious:
DeepBlue1975 said:
Don't know if Mac people have more money than others, but they surely do spend more than tech savvy users, and specifically, they spend more to get things with the right looks than to get things with the right functionality.

It's like comparing girls to boys: girls usually spend lots of money on stuff with little to no practical functionality (very high heel shoes, cosmetics, hair styling) but that imply a self image enhancing, while us amongst the male crowd prefer to spend little fortunes on some rugged printed circuit board which is said to pump out don't-know-how-many zillions of texturized polygons per nanosecond and has gullions of transistors built in.

Hence, Mac people must be comprised mainly by girls and gay men than straight men.
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Misty Dingos said:
This is not news to the people that have ever walked into an Apple store. Never been in one? Well let me help you out because I am a nice person and I like to help people. My trips to the Apple Stores were because a child required an IPod. Nothing else would do. Not Zune. Not Sansa. Not anything but Holy Apple.

Let us tour the standard Apple Store. First things first, it looks like something out of a bad 70’s sci-fi movie. Every surface is frighteningly white, the attendants are all dressed identically, and the air is perfumed with Snobbery No. 5 by Steve Jobs. You are attended to according to the perceived cost of your hair cut. Do not dare mention that you use Windows at home or the attendants will pull on gloves to deal with your unsavory presence. If you make it this far, and congratulations for being so clever, after being allowed in Apple’s Staff profound presence for at least thirty minutes touring ever bit of white and chrome coated tech and agreeing with or laughing at the staff’s witticisms. You may be allowed to bask in the glory of purchasing an item from the Apple Store! This item, whether it be IPod, Mac, or even lowly ITouch will be the gateway unto a new and better existence for you. Unless it breaks, then you will have to navigate the Apple Store again but this time to deal with Apple Customer Service. They give the sales people lessons in snobbery. I will tell you about them later.
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I wish they'd just come straight out and do a study to see if Mac use makes you gay.
 
lol

The writer should change that to girly girls.
 
Not news to me, but all the rest of their purchases just compounds the snobbery.
 
This is old news, Fly. I'm surprised and disappointed in you.
 
HAHA

That is so true, it's actually scary. I'm definitely going to send this around work, even though it's gonna piss a bunch of Mactards off. (Post production house, so there's a lot of them)
 
Propagandhi said:
HAHA

That is so true, it's actually scary. I'm definitely going to send this around work, even though it's gonna piss a bunch of Mactards off. (Post production house, so there's a lot of them)
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in b4 kelyon :D

<3 ya kel
 
i dont knock apple cause my girlfriend is a mactard and i cant go messin with the supply of poon...thats all i got to say about that

ninjar edit: i myself, build my own computers
 
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lolMacbook Air

Little to no functionality....
 
poon?

also LoL @ Fly brining every technological advancement/discovery, one shot at a time
 
I must admit, the Intel Mac's have me intrigued. Must mean I'm questioning my sexuality...

Seriously though, it was fucking cool the capabilities the macbooks have. There is always, the possibility of a virtual XP install if you really need to have windows. The cool part? There is no driver problem running virtual XP on Mac can't solve.
 
Arctyrael said:
I must admit, the Intel Mac's have me intrigued. Must mean I'm questioning my sexuality...

Seriously though, it was fucking cool the capabilities the macbooks have. There is always, the possibility of a virtual XP install if you really need to have windows. The cool part? There is no driver problem running virtual XP on Mac can't solve.
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well, you can do the virtual box if you gotta, but there's always BootCamp.
 
I'm not really surprised by all the other correlaries in the article because when you think about it, who uses Macs more than anyone? Generally mid-20s grad students either finishing up or going to grad school at a liberal arts college. It comes with the territory.
 
Hitaru said:
am i gay coz i have an Ipod?
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Yes. Thestreet.com and all PC users have been right all along. Follow our path and ye shall be saved!

















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DeepBlue1975 is an fucking idiot. Hate to burst his bubble, but all those cosmetics and hair styling have a practical purpose; see how far she gets without them. Lumping gay men in there just to reinforce the idea that we're all shallow and image-conscious is icing on the cake, so fuck him. As for Misty Dingos, try Amazon and then you won't have to deal with the perceived condescension.

I use a Mac at work. I have no desire to use one at home. Having said that, you'll get my iPod when you pry it from my cold dead hand. I also think people who bought iPhones should have their heads examined.

Edit to add: Cmdrfly, shame on you. You left out the last part of DeepBlue1975's comment.

DeepBlue1975 said:
(It's just a joke! I have mac fan friends that are not gay... well, at least they don't seem to be :D )
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