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- UrlorJkron, on 12/19/2007, -8/+127This also just in: Mac users much more likely than PC users to pay for anything.
- happyseamonster, on 12/19/2007, -29/+108In other news: PC users more likely than Mac users to pay for yearly subscriptions to security suites.
- ahhell, on 12/19/2007, -15/+87Who the ***** cares.
- MicrosoftBob, on 12/19/2007, -14/+82Mac Users three times more likely to bury your comment.
- lukifer, on 12/19/2007, -13/+74Mac users have always been willing to pay a premium for low fuss on their computers. Why would their music habits be any different (DRM notwithstanding)?
- lukifer, on 12/19/2007, -5/+55Ethernet cards have MACs. Your wife, on the other hand, wants a Mac.
- Willravel, on 12/19/2007, -3/+50In a related story, Porsche owners are less likely to shop at Walmart. Later: Water is wet.
- Bob042, on 12/19/2007, -4/+44Try giving her 0B-08-74-4C-7F-1D. That one's kind of pretty.
- KevinLiu, on 12/19/2007, -18/+53Or PC users are poor!
- tubeblender, on 12/19/2007, -6/+41I like turtles
- monospaced, on 12/19/2007, -11/+43Why did you capitalize Mac completely? Do you think it's an acronym. Bury me, but it's still a pet peeve of mine and many other diggers.
- loopis, on 12/19/2007, -47/+73Anyone else have a wife that says she wants a MAC all the time but has no idea why other than it is pretty?
- inactive, on 12/19/2007, -14/+35That's because the average Mac user has more money. It's like saying "People who drive Porsches are less likely to steal gas than Ford drivers." No *****, they don't need to steal.
- Greer70, on 12/19/2007, -4/+25My cat's breath smells like cat food.
- drobati, on 12/19/2007, -14/+32As a Mac User none of the examples you just listed check out as true.
I don't purchase music
I get memory from newegg that costs the same as PC memory and even install it myself, since on a mac its super easy to put in memory.
We never used AOL.
All my connections are USB based. Firewire 800 is nice but I'm not crazy about using something that is exclusive to macs. Id like to be able to plug it into anything really.
Last but not least, Wives of IT guys don't buy macs. College students and artists/designers consist of the majority of mac users. (At least from what i've seen, there are still plenty of windows using college students so don't get all anal about this one) Besides don't you think an IT guy would oppose his wife to buying a mac?
On a side note. I am probably 3 times as likely to buy software for my mac then on windows even though i could just steal it with a false serial. To me this is because the software ive paid for is super clean, has lots of functionality, and is easy to use. Most deserving of my money. - robbh66, on 12/19/2007, -1/+17PC users are pros at making simple things complicated.
- CanadaMan87, on 12/19/2007, -0/+16Exactly; I'm as white as they come, and I LOVE chicken and watermelon!
- ejde, on 12/19/2007, -6/+22That's probably the most insightful comment you can make on this thread. Mac users have, on average, more discretionary cash to spend.
- superkendall, on 12/19/2007, -8/+24She gets tired of using your screwed-up PC all the time?
- murraj2, on 12/19/2007, -1/+16Hi, I'm a small sample, and I do not imply correlation
- THUMPerRTE, on 12/19/2007, -4/+19remember this is digg...you are one of about 10 users that are actually married
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 12/19/2007, -0/+15If you can afford an expensive computer, chances are you can afford to pay for songs.
- loopis, on 12/19/2007, -4/+18I have been served by upper case police. How embarrassing.
- TheReport, on 12/19/2007, -0/+14I'm a Mac user and this article is an ignorant generalization of all Mac users. Its like saying Black people are twice as likely to eat chicken and watermelon than white people
- daftpenguin, on 12/19/2007, -5/+19This article is irresponsible. It gives the impression that PC users are more likely to steal music, while this is not what that data says. What it should say is something like, "Mac users are three times more likely to purchase music online than PC users." This could be because of any number of factors, such as all the people who use PCs at work and wouldn't use them to download music anyway.
- morrislevy, on 12/19/2007, -16/+28Hi, I'm a Mac user, and I pay for some of my music. :P It's the truth,
- usingpond, on 12/19/2007, -0/+11Ugh, in real, actual news PC users apparently can't see the little green light on their Caps Lock key.
- luchid, on 12/19/2007, -2/+13Underpowered for what kind of usage? e-Penis boosting rigs with 1k watt power supplies are not needed for what most people do on a computer all day, like surf the web, check email, organize and browse pictures, and maybe edit the ocasional vacation video. The mac mini fits the bill perfectly.
- CinaMichele, on 12/19/2007, -8/+18i beg to differ.
- happyseamonster, on 12/19/2007, -8/+17Maybe she knows someone that has one that loves it (besides how it looks) and she compares that to how she feels about her current one. You can get a Mac Mini for a lot less and use your current keyboard, mouse and monitor.
- happyseamonster, on 12/19/2007, -0/+9Buying RAM from a 'PC" OEM like Sony etc will also cost more than buying it from crucial or newegg etc... so buying it from Apple OEM also cost more. I added 2GB RAM to my MBP for 50 bucks from crucial.com- also made by Samsung, just like the "official" Apple RAM. That said, I think what Apple charges is so high that it actually hurts their business. It boggles the mind.
- digggggggggg, on 12/19/2007, -1/+10Right, because all Mac users are ignorant and dumb people who have absolutely no idea that there are other music management software titles out there, and other digital audio players beside the ipod, despite all the ads, the stuff you see in stores, and all those news reports about pirating music.
I can just as well say that most Windows users don't even know where the software ends and the hardware begins, leading them to think that Windows is actually part of a computer. Therefore, any machine using an alternative to Windows, such as Linux or OS X, cannot possibly be considered a "computer".
Seriously though, enough with the rash generalizations. You're not helping your case. - platypibri, on 12/19/2007, -1/+10Good luck with that RIAA rep about to knock on your door.
- mrjit, on 12/19/2007, -3/+12Now the RIAA will want a list of all the students at Ohio State who own PC's and not Macs.
- TheUngod, on 12/19/2007, -6/+15Not after buying a Mac they don't...
- thinkdifferent, on 12/19/2007, -2/+10Sounds like a much better market to develop for....
- ontain, on 12/19/2007, -5/+13that's a pretty crappy diamond then ;)
- Vermifax, on 12/19/2007, -2/+10My ousin's a DJ and he uses a Mac mini and something called M-Audio Torq. Say what you need to about Mac mini but you can make money with it.
Tame your hatred. - TofuMatt, on 12/19/2007, -6/+14Though this is only my observation, all of the Mac users I know personally, and most of the ones I've met/talk with online, also seem way more likely to buy their software instead of pirate it. Mac piracy seems to be more of a niche than a standard fare kind of deal like it is on Windows. Maybe it has something to do with the culture, or maybe with the quality of the apps, or whatever, but I noticed once I made the switch, all of my software was bought, instead of just some of it, as was the case in Windows.
I've pretty much always bought my music from iTunes though, even in my Windows days. - digggggggggg, on 12/19/2007, -2/+10You're making pre-installed software sound like a feature. I would gladly pay Dell, HP, et. al. extra money to _not_ ship their computers with the pre-installed crapware. Most of the software are things that you may never actually use, such as MusicMatch, AOL, MSN registration, etc, and are difficult to get rid of. Anything remotely useful, such as the Antivirus and Firewall, are trial versions that nag you to death until you buy them.
The epitome of all this is a budget Dell laptop a friend of mine got a year ago. It only had 128Mb of RAM, but Dell decided to load up all this stuff on it anyway. The first boot took well over 30 minutes because it just didn't have enough memory to fit all of it without paging out. Getting all the stuff uninstalled took the better part of a day. - jisrael, on 12/19/2007, -4/+12which side paid more for In Rainbows?
- 5xSTUN, on 12/19/2007, -1/+8I agree with tubeblender. I've used Macs and PCs in my work on a day-to-day basis and based on my end-user experience with them I wouldn't even consider buying a PC for my home or in laptop form.
It has zilch to do with Apple's marketing. - tuartboy, on 12/19/2007, -1/+8@dugg2hard
All of the mac users I know are programmers, photographers, 3D artists and video editors. All my CS professors (except one) used macs. All-in-all, roughly 30 or so mac users. All of them are hardcore users of their computers (coding, compiling, editing, rendering) and most would even find those tasks difficult on a windows-based machine (no Final Cut for the editors, no built-in dev environments or languages for the programmers, etc...). Macs really are serious machines and many hardcore users are switching because of the endless possibilities that BSD + VMWare provide.
BTW, my Mac has 9 Hard drives (3.82TB total), 2 DVD burners (the 2nd one was bought off the shelf at Best Buy for $30), 4 high-speed PCI-X slots, 9GB (max 32GB) of RAM (good luck getting Vista 32 to see that), and quad Xeons. I drive 2 x 24" displays on top of that. I say this not to win the pissing contest, but to show you that Macs have real hardware these days and this archaic idea of their inferiority is really at an end. - digggggggggg, on 12/19/2007, -2/+9Lemme get this straight, Mac Users make things simpler for themselves, by dumbing the software down? I think it would make more sense to say that Apple has "dumbed down" the software to make the Mac experience "simpler".
In either case, I beg to differ. Sure, Macs have a candy-coated GUI, but underneath all that is a BSD subsystem and a Mach kernel. You are given access to all that, which means that it's a perfectly good, POSIX compliant system. Anything you can do with other *NIXes, you can do with OS X. Or, if you're content with just the GUI, that's perfectly fine too. - Vermifax, on 12/19/2007, -1/+8My Mac is metallic gray and my wife's Mac is the same gray and black.
Step your "troll game", up, homey! - DarkChapinko, on 12/19/2007, -2/+9WOW, wait wait... Just WOW... You managed to turn a comment about mac users into a completely bigoted, racial, and sexist remark. ***** YOU sir, *****. YOU.
I can't even finish this... - platypibri, on 12/19/2007, -2/+8...And people on the outside being jealous
- ucg1, on 12/19/2007, -0/+6You're saying a UNIX-based OS that can also run Windows/Linux/*BSD/etc in a VM is not for serious computer users? (it can also run those OS's natively of course)
Care to define what you think a "serious computer user" is and what he/she would use? - tschau, on 12/19/2007, -0/+6You're not just purchasing hardware. I'm a PC user, but I don't deny that there's a lot to like about OS X. It functions extremely intuitively, has excellent aesthetics, and reduces the amount a non-tech-savvy user must worry about getting a virus. So there are those things.
- tubeblender, on 12/19/2007, -0/+6Unix 3 Certification for Leopard.
Link: http://www.unix.org/unix03.html -
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