think a Mac user wrote this?

<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/779614.asp" target="_blank">Mac user</a>

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Those who surf the Web using a Mac tend to be better educated and make more money than their PC-using counterparts</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So thats why they spend 5X the $$$$ for 1/2 the machine???

Honestly, I can say that I use on a daily basis (I am the Mac tech for the local college) and the pc stomps the crap outta the mac in terms of being easy to use/upgrade

This post was written on a Mac, I'm getting paid 39 hours a week, supervisors wage, to sit on my arse at home.

'nuff said :D

I've got one, its one of the newer ones. The lady who "gave" it to me said she paid like $3000 for it.
I gave her $150 trade in on a new system, I tried telling her I didn't want it, but she was going to give it to me, and I'd have felt really bad considering it was only 5 months old.
I have never checked to see what it is or plugged it in to see if it works.
Her complaint was learning how to do stuff on it.
My complaint is it's an Apple.

Stupid, stupid advertising campaign.

Yeah, switch my @ss.

I think that the article was written for those people who need to target advertising... I think they are saying that if you have a mac user, s/he is more likely to click the x10 popup... or am I being too cynical?

I've used both PC's and MAc's and i always get the same results on the PC in design packages so i got rid of the mac, My p4 does everything i want it too except wash my dishes and make cofee!!

ok...so Macs aren't evil...just overpriced and underpowered. design and print shops love them for, well...printing and design, seemingly oblivious to the fact you can do the same thing on a reasonably quick (there's an oxymoron) eMachine (well, for the few weeks the power supply holds out).

just how much does Jobs think that cute Apple logo is worth anyway? in my area it is an hour drive to even buy one. no one around here works on them so service is another matter. why go out of your way when there is a PC shop on almost every block of Anytown, USA?

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by The Rifleman:
<strong>I've got one, its one of the newer ones. The lady who "gave" it to me said she paid like $3000 for it.
I gave her $150 trade in on a new system, I tried telling her I didn't want it, but she was going to give it to me, and I'd have felt really bad considering it was only 5 months old.
I have never checked to see what it is or plugged it in to see if it works.
Her complaint was learning how to do stuff on it.
My complaint is it's an Apple.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">PM

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by DiR[ëctory]:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by The Rifleman:
<strong>I've got one, its one of the newer ones. The lady who "gave" it to me said she paid like $3000 for it.
I gave her $150 trade in on a new system, I tried telling her I didn't want it, but she was going to give it to me, and I'd have felt really bad considering it was only 5 months old.
I have never checked to see what it is or plugged it in to see if it works.
Her complaint was learning how to do stuff on it.
My complaint is it's an Apple.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">PM</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I guess DIR wants that IMac.. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

I think the findings are legit. Most of the affluent people in the world are too busy making or counting money to have time to learn how to use the powerful and complex instrument known as the PC. Same goes for the most (not all) of the highly educated (Master's degree or higher). They are too busy learning to have time to enjoy the wonders of the Windows operating system.

Most of the web developers I know have or use a Mac for web dev on a regular basis.

I was shocked a while back to find out that Rush Limbaugh (who ardently defends M$ on his daily radio show) is an avid Mac user and have even written some web pages on his Mac.

OH - and I do own a Mac (PowerPC 75). Right now it is in the perfect place in my apt...on the floor in the closet.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by The Rifleman:
<strong>I've got one, its one of the newer ones. The lady who "gave" it to me said she paid like $3000 for it.
I gave her $150 trade in on a new system, I tried telling her I didn't want it, but she was going to give it to me, and I'd have felt really bad considering it was only 5 months old.
I have never checked to see what it is or plugged it in to see if it works.
Her complaint was learning how to do stuff on it.
My complaint is it's an Apple.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hey, ya can always give it to me :)

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Radical Dreamer:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by The Rifleman:
<strong>I've got one, its one of the newer ones. The lady who "gave" it to me said she paid like $3000 for it.
I gave her $150 trade in on a new system, I tried telling her I didn't want it, but she was going to give it to me, and I'd have felt really bad considering it was only 5 months old.
I have never checked to see what it is or plugged it in to see if it works.
Her complaint was learning how to do stuff on it.
My complaint is it's an Apple.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hey, ya can always give it to me :) </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'll give ya $5 for it.. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
(I think DIR has the best bid, though... :) )

My wife wants it, she just dosen't know where.

+

She enjoys messing my settings up too much.

I wouldn't have paid $150 if she hadn't thought it was "pretty", and said she wanted it.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Kaneda:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Radical Dreamer:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by The Rifleman:
<strong>I've got one, its one of the newer ones. The lady who "gave" it to me said she paid like $3000 for it.
I gave her $150 trade in on a new system, I tried telling her I didn't want it, but she was going to give it to me, and I'd have felt really bad considering it was only 5 months old.
I have never checked to see what it is or plugged it in to see if it works.
Her complaint was learning how to do stuff on it.
My complaint is it's an Apple.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hey, ya can always give it to me :) </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'll give ya $5 for it.. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
(I think DIR has the best bid, though... :) )</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">But I'm closer <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

Rifleman, you probably have about 5 PM's right now :)

Hey I tried <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

'“Apple customers may be educated, but our customers are smart enough to have chosen Gateway, which offers the best value,” said Brad Williams, a spokesman for the PC maker.'

Damned if you do, damned if you do the other.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by geeksRus:
<strong>ok...so Macs aren't evil...just overpriced and underpowered. design and print shops love them for, well...printing and design, seemingly oblivious to the fact you can do the same thing on a reasonably quick (there's an oxymoron) eMachine (well, for the few weeks the power supply holds out).

just how much does Jobs think that cute Apple logo is worth anyway? in my area it is an hour drive to even buy one. no one around here works on them so service is another matter. why go out of your way when there is a PC shop on almost every block of Anytown, USA?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">humm wierd, my mac cost $2000 less than a pc wierd so there more?? check again my laptop was $2000, while the laptop I was going to get was $4000 hummm

Imacs are about $700
new imac about $1300

not much diffrence than buying a really good system from dell or somewhere.

Another thing, mac has a great educational and developer plan. I got a educational discount which knocked off $300 from the sale price, I then got a developers discount of $200. So mY MAc was very ceap. I also upgraded the hard drive and memory in. 30 gb and 512mb pc100

Oh and there underpowered?? Well kinda

my 400 mhz powerbook g4 would spank my tbird 1.2ghz system.

Hardware on a mac mean nothing. Mac optimizes there software to run fast ont here ahrdware, thats why they havnt came out with 1.6 mhz 1.9 ghz etc... they really dont need it. Macs systems dont even need fans in it. Another thing I give mac credit for is there OS. Very nice clean and simple, but the most, powerful. Mac os X is the most powerful OS right now that I see. Its A unix OS with the mac gui. How nice is that, a unix freaks dream.

You can get there dual 1 ghz machine for $4000 yes thats alot but it sure scared amd and intel. Since that dual 1ghz system can apnk the 2.2 ghz system

dont get me wrong, I own 15 other pc machines. 1 sparc, and now this mac.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by +Daemon+:
<strong>Macs systems dont even need fans in it.
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Uh, thats why they have 2 very large fans in the G4 Lab that I support? They stay very toasty even though...