Personality traits between PC and Mac users?

satchmosatchmo
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
What differenciates a PC user from a Mac user? Are there certain personality traits that are more prevalent in Mac users?



I know a lot of creative types use Macs, but what about others? There are also Mac users from all sorts of professions.



Obviously Mac users are willing to spend more...but that that mean we are just more demanding of perfection or are we just more gullible?
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  • Reply 1 of 21
    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    [quote]Originally posted by satchmo:

    <strong>What differenciates a PC user from a Mac user? Are there certain personality traits that are more prevalent in Mac users?



    I know a lot of creative types use Macs, but what about others? There are also Mac users from all sorts of professions.



    Obviously Mac users are willing to spend more...but that that mean we are just more demanding of perfection or are we just more gullible?</strong><hr></blockquote>

    i am willing to spent more money but less time for my computer.



    Macs are definitively more confortable.
  • Reply 2 of 21
    kelibkelib Posts: 740member
    I would think the average Mac user is less tech minded, often more creative and more liberally thinking.
  • Reply 3 of 21
    the installerthe installer Posts: 910member
    [quote]Originally posted by kelib:

    <strong>I would think the average Mac user is less tech minded, often more creative and more liberally thinking.</strong><hr></blockquote>And what about people who use both, kelib?



    - T.I.
  • Reply 4 of 21
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    kelib, that's only one side...



    Sure...'Liberally minded, creatively minded' like macs...but so do 'ultra-rich, money-minded conservatives.'
  • Reply 5 of 21
    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    [quote]Originally posted by The Installer:

    <strong>And what about people who use both, kelib?



    - T.I.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Hmmm ... Schizophrenic dissociation of the personnality ?
  • Reply 6 of 21
    nebagakidnebagakid Posts: 2,692member
    People who own Macs are more often likely to think of other people and do other favors not know what, if anything, they will get in return.
  • Reply 7 of 21
    macaddictmacaddict Posts: 1,055member




    <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
  • Reply 8 of 21
    the installerthe installer Posts: 910member
    [quote]Originally posted by powerdoc:

    <strong>



    Hmmm ... Schizophrenic dissociation of the personnality ? </strong><hr></blockquote>I hope you read this kelib, and it sure is good to have a member of the medical profession on these boards



    - T.I.
  • Reply 9 of 21
    xmogerxmoger Posts: 242member
    Why do some people try to express some sort of lifestyle through their computer purchase? It may have been valid when big blue was trying to control the PC market and apple's were used by hobbyists, but I don't get it now.



    linux user: I'm l33t, ph3ar me!

    mac user: I'm more creative and smarter than you!

    windows user: Is windows that thing that flashes on the screen when I turn it on?
  • Reply 10 of 21
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    [quote]Originally posted by The Installer:

    <strong>I hope you read this kelib, and it sure is good to have a member of the medical profession on these boards



    - T.I.</strong><hr></blockquote>

    [soapbox]

    Good grief... medical doctors know squat about psychology... [/soapbox]



    I'd say they were in a job that makes them use windows. In other words, they hate their jobs.
  • Reply 11 of 21
    mac voyermac voyer Posts: 1,294member
    It seems to me that PC users view their machines as tools and Mac users view their machines as personal friends. (broad generalization) My advice? Make human friends. Use silicon tools. And try not to get the two mixed up.



    No offense intended. Just a lighthearted response to what I assume was a lighthearted thread.



    Live long and prosper.
  • Reply 12 of 21
    logan calelogan cale Posts: 1,281member
    My Mac is a much better friend than most people.
  • Reply 13 of 21
    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    [quote]Originally posted by MacAgent:

    <strong>My Mac is a much better friend than most people.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Mine too It stays up with me when I have a lot of work to do, wakes up whenever I want it to and doesn't complain if I smoke around it Plus, it smiles at me occassionally (not nearly as often as it use to since OS X came around because I don't have to reboot. Ever.)
  • Reply 14 of 21
    wormboywormboy Posts: 220member
    Just to be absolutely clear, schizophrenia has nothing whatsoever to do with split personality. This is one of the greatest layman's myths of abnormal psychology.
  • Reply 15 of 21
    kelibkelib Posts: 740member
    [quote]Originally posted by The Installer:

    <strong>I hope you read this kelib, and it sure is good to have a member of the medical profession on these boards



    - T.I.</strong><hr></blockquote> As daily I work with MVS/Jes2 along with UNIX servers and NT workstations I can be diagnozed as multiphrenic. I guess I'm a bad case <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



    [ 04-08-2002: Message edited by: kelib ]</p>
  • Reply 16 of 21
    gordygordy Posts: 1,004member
    Mac users tend to understand PC's twenty times more than the average PC user. However, the average lame PC user calls Macs 'Apples'. UGHH!!! I hate that!
  • Reply 17 of 21
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by Eugene:

    <strong>kelib, that's only one side...



    Sure...'Liberally minded, creatively minded' like macs...but so do 'ultra-rich, money-minded conservatives.' </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Pro-lifers!



    [ 04-08-2002: Message edited by: sjpsu ]</p>
  • Reply 18 of 21
    cosmonutcosmonut Posts: 4,872member
    To me, there are generally two kinds of PC user, and one kind of Mac user.



    One kind of PC user is the "tech head" who builds their own kick-ass gaming machine, knows the C\ prompt commands backwards and forwards, writes viruses, hacks stuff, etc. They generally know a great deal about Unix/Linux as well, and -- on the whole -- don't have much of a social life.



    The second kind of PC user is the always-too-busy family person. They go to Best Buy and buy a computer because their friends told them they need one, so therefore they want to get on this internet thing. They get the $400 off the PC purchase by signing their life away to MSN service, and take the box home. After they follow the child-like instructions to set up the machine, they follow all the happy dialogue boxes to get on the internet and set up a Hotmail account. The problem with these people is that whenever ANYTHING goes wrong with their machine, they have no friekin' clue how to fix it, because they never learn how to do anything with it besides point and click. They then call their computer geek child (see description above) or family friend to fix the machine (over and over and over again). If that person isn't available, it's back to Best Buy to pay them WAY too much money to service it. I feel sorry for these people.



    The Mac user: We CHOOSE our platform. We do not have it thrust upon us by Bill Gates, Michael Dell, etc. By choosing to use a Mac, most Mac users take an active responsibility to learn what goes on inside the machine, how to maintain it (rebuilding the desktop, etc.), and what it takes to own a computer and use it as a tool. By using it as a tool, Mac users sometimes get attached to the tool (as any carpenter would with his/her hammer), but that's okay. We Mac users know that ultimately, we're better off for not letting an operating system hold our hand throughout our entire computing experience, eventually numbing us to nothingness before the OS decides to crap out for good. We use our Macs for productive endeavors, and that's why there are so few (and not very malicious) viruses for a Mac.



    I'm happy to be a Mac user.
  • Reply 19 of 21
    arielariel Posts: 46member
    [quote]Originally posted by CosmoNut:

    <strong>

    The Mac user: We CHOOSE our platform. </strong><hr></blockquote>



    It might just be that....



    There are those that choose their platform, and there are the rest -- the platform chose them! They've been assimilated!









    Ariel
  • Reply 20 of 21
    splinemodelsplinemodel Posts: 7,311member
    PC users:

    Type A - windows users

    - vast majority are indecisive, have no platform attachment, but since they have a very basic understanding of windows they cling to it.



    - People who think they know something about computers, but really don't. (Gamers, arstechnica.com)



    - People who do know about computers, and have more than one machine, usually only one of them runs windows.



    Type B - Unix/Linux user

    - People who crave pain

    - People who don't like Microsoft, and are generally quite technical



    Type C - Mac Users

    - People who have been with the platform for a long time, and are pretty similar to the first kind of windows users, except that the Mac OS is much more easy to attach onesself to.



    - People who are really into graphics, AV, etc, from hobbyists to pros.



    - Technical folks who like the Mac OS, and have become so satisfied with OS X that they burned their Linux/BSD machines in glee. (Actually, I just loaded up OS X Server on it and dumped Linux)



    [ 04-08-2002: Message edited by: Splinemodel ]</p>
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