A study of over 7500 people showed that Mac users actually think very differently than their PC counterparts. The study itself showed that, in fact, Mac users were more liberal, less modest, and "and more assured of their own superiority than the others of the population." Yes, that last bit is true. It seems that Mac users are more receptive to feelings, so that they can feel joy and sadness more intensely. Also, the research firm said that people who are open minded are more than 60% more likely to buy a Mac.

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So, this article is trying to say that the majority of Mac users are gay?

As a mac user, I take offence to that.

These study results actually do seem logical. AND. I am not gay. +1 to what Tetrasoft said.

I'd also take offense to some idiot website calling all of us gay

i too take offence to that! I am a HUGE Mac Lover!

Without trying to sound like an idiot. I think it is the "nature"-part of Apple's pr-strategy that appeals to this kind of people. Whats Apple's logo? An Apple! What do you connect the Clownfish when you see one? iPhone!
Whats Apple's newest product? Right, a MacBook Air

Well, Microsoft uses a simple "Microsoft" word as their logo.. without the 4-colored-flag Windows wouldnt be Windows, hehe. But this has nothing to do with nature. Its a bit dry if i may say.

Im not an Apple user. But i must say after trying Tiger on my notebook-pc i must say the OS appeals to me!

In the end I would classify myself to the users who are more receptive to feelings but not to the superior ones!

As far as i know there are also very much artists using MacOS what backs up my theory (look one post above for example. Well ok, he hasnt got anything published... but that will surely follow, hehe)

PS: No, I'm not gay

I highly doubt there is any real correlation between being a Mac User and how intensely you feel emotions or how open you are. Why can't studies just focus on what is actually a plausible statement as per their sample size? Especially when it has to do with something that is quite polarizing like Apple products. As far as i can tell, people either hate them or love them.

as an owner of both a real mac, a hack, and a couple of pc's. I can't agree with this article. I don't feel any more "superior" now that i have a mac then before...

@welz: Right, thats an important part i left out in my post. I agree with you.

It things like this that kind of make me sick, and piss me off. If a computer and its OS determines how you act, then you need to go outside for awhile. I just hate it how people think they're better than others like this.

x86 users are mutants



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Ha, ha, good one. I consider these "studies" utter BS, though. No offense to those who might actually believe in it. People cannot be defined or categorized based on such a ridiculous thing as their choice of OS, IMO.

Is 60% even that good of a statistic?

"More liberal, and less modest?"
Isn't that a contradiction of "more assured of their own superiority than the others of the population?"

Really now.



Will the next survey say all Linux users have deep seeded intentions of taking over the world someday?

I really don't know why everyone is taking this so seriously. It's just a study, I thought it was kinda funny and I thought that other people would join in on it's hilarity. But no, we have to fight about how it's wrong. It's a study, there has to be at least some margin of error.

I was also wondering about that.
Which kind of brains do typical Linux users have?
(My definition of "typical" does not include those who try Linux because it is fashionable, keep complaining all the time how difficult it is, and in the end go back to Windows).

If you're completely Open-Minded, then you are Close-Minded to Close-Mindedness.

Right???

i think that this thread does not belong here ...


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So if you were a long time Windows user does that mean those "more liberal, less modest, and and more assured of their own superiority" feelings/attitude were being suppressed all those years until they switched or they were developed after becoming a Mac user?

Woah now, I think you may have misunderstood.

It's not saying that the OS determines how you act, it's just saying that people who use this particular OS just happen to be more open minded than people who use a different OS. It's not that the OS has an effect on our personality, more like our personality has an effect on what OS we use. Make sense?

Does that include Windows and Linux users that also use the x86 architecture?

Well, a large majority of Mac users I know are gay

I guess this kinda backs up Apple's 'Think Different' advert

This study is lame. How the {censored} do you study something like that and come up with results like this? Mac user's brains are different, yes:
When Apple charges $3,000 for a $2,000 computer, the mac users buy them anyway!

Clearly this study just proves what we all know already - Mac users are better, and PC users have a harder time admitting they are wrong.

i feel liberal, and i think im better then my one friend who uses windows

I strongly agree.

"I'm a mac and I think PC's are inferior."

"I'm a PC and frankly don't give a {censored}"

Maybe PC users have an elevated state of mind?

So where's the study that shows us that the Windows fanboys (yeah, they exist. You know them.) are a bunch of closed minded, stubborn gits?

(hint: they're the ones who still complain about Macs having one mouse button and link to that video with the guy bashing the iMac G3 with it's handle being for use as a boat anchor as the absolute truth and an accurate depiction of the computers of today)

PS: If you take this post seriously, you're part of the problem.

Settle down children!


The article states that mac users are open minded and live in the current if not future standards, good example would be, well they decided to purchase mac over a pc. Weather it was the structure or the gesture, they did.

And self-hating PC users are just stuck in the 90's of Gate's ford focus momentum.


me like mac.

And enough with the gay jokes!, i mean we all registered at this forum!

Dumb article. That's like saying you can find the difference between those that like pepsi and those that like coke. IN reality, people get different computers for various reasons.

Well, I am a gay Mac user, and none of you homophobic idiot posters here come close to being better than the lowliest gay Mac user.

http://www.our-picks.com/archives/2007/02/...cs-perspective/

no but seriously macs are way to expensive and.. not alot of software (xcept for the stuff that starts with "I")..
not to mention gaming..

so that are the main reasons I dont own one.. that and the fact that in my country you cant find a place to buy a mac except if you order it from the capital city.. anyhow.. I like to upgrade the components myself.. I just go around the corner to a store and buy them like groceries )

ps: gonna try leopard on vmware tho..

hackintosh users, use booth sides of the brain,...
otherwise they could not get it to run, aka core duo,...

average human is using 3% of the brain,.....
dolphin is using 100% of the brain, at sleep alternates brain sides,
so is still at 50% at sleep,....

other interesting fact, that monkeys are not our closest relatives,...
dolphins are, by magnitude,.... monkeys are as close to humans, as pigs to horses,...

these guys, isn't it the right side of the brain, the creative side ?

So if a study says majority of Mac users are gay you are offended, wow

More like 60% of Mac users are brainwashed (thinking Mac's dont get viruses, they're super easy, etc.) They CAN get viruses, and they're easy depending on the person.

Sure, and those viruses make Mac users buy more Macs and visit Mac sites and lie about Mac viruses

MACaFree antivirus here

Mac users are not gay, Mac BUYERS are gay

What about OSX86 users? I think this group is definitely superior. There are mac users, there are windows users, then there are OSX86 users who are superior. Linux users are not people , they're droids, so they don't count.

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Lmao, that was hilarious. I wanna see that movie again now...

If they did a study self declared Apple lovers who only bought iMacs(as in their reason for hating everything pee'cee), far more hilary would be ensured. Massive superiority complex, yet so dumb that even a test not targeting it picks it up.

Dude....wtf are you talking about. Ever heard of sarcasm?
The "gay" reply was obviously intended as a way to say the obvious. Which is "WHAT THE F#&K IS THIS WHOLE STUDY ABOUT?"

They are trying to convince people that people using one calculator are better than people using another one. The endless Apple communities search for superiority.

If one would keep both feet on the ground and stop investigating BS the world would be a better place. Why should anyone feel better than someone else anyways?

I'm almost ashamed of running OSX if i see such total nonsense on the web....... I have my reasons for choosing OSX, feeling superior is not one of them i can tell you.
I do know some Mac users that think they are ever so interesting because they own a mac. Never did understand this......Is one superior to another when they own something else? How?
Some people don't have a choice, or not the financial means to own a mac......do we call these people inferior because their financial situation is different? That's what i would call some real narrow minded thinking!!!!

Good luckwith this investigation....i'm going back to the real world where people judge you by your personality instead of by what you own. And if this investigation tells the truth....Mac owners are superior asses. Feeling superior is a sign being narrow minded to begin with...........

What really keeps surprising me is how money keeps being spend on these kinds of surveys.

Besides all this it's just too much fun replying to Mac fanboys and getting them all excited about defending their macs. Like anyone cares if you use Windows or OSX. It's not one of the truly important things in life afaik.

i must say that "people who are open minded PC users are more than 99% more likely to try to install a Mac OS on their PC".

Yes, I agree 100%. This is like Ferrari or Lamborghini owners are superior then BMW ones. (No offense to BMW or other car brands owners - I have no car, I only give an example).

I'm not too opened mind like that

about those superiority fell, its true loolollolo I have the tic by playing with some of my friends winbob users talking about how sucks windows are, mac is a sacred doctrine from the olympian divines!

But the most common fell what a mac user can has is the sense of sophistication and stay in cmd/control, the fell to having wings and can fly.

It's all part of a guerilla marketing campaign.

Let loose the info that Mac owners are hipper, smarter and generally more highly evolved than their M$-using bretheren and others who are suggestible to the whole Apple "buying into a lifestyle" marketing ethos will go out and buy a Mac so they too can be hip, smart and ubercool.

Of course, this illusion of hipness only applies to those in the "inner circle" of Macness, and the illusion is maintained by those who belong to it by playing loud music on thier iPods and singing "na naaaa can't hear you!" when you try to point out the patently obvious, the patently obvious being that buying into such things for the above reasons comes across as being rather sad.

Apple. The Scientology of computing. You have to be out of it to see into it.

Yep! it's true!!! I'm superior!! ajajajjajajajaja... WTF!?!?!?!

i've read the article several times and still i have to find a word about gay people.
what about this one?
"be less childish"

Yeah me Too!
and I am not Gay too!!!

yay. hackintosh users are more superb ..!

Glad a study finally proves it. Imagine the outcry if a conservative ever said they were superior!!!

var 1, 2, 3;var a,b,c;var d,e,f;a = "GAY AS HELL!!!";b = "BISEXUAL!!!";c = "transvestite!!!";1 = "MAC user + MAC buyer"; 2 = "MAC user && PC user (at the same time)" ;3 = "Hackingtosh user + MAC user + PC user";d = 1+a;e = 2+b;f = 3+c;if (d <= e || e>=d || e<=f || f>=d){ " YOU JUST A CONFUSED DUMB ASS";}var 1, 2, 3;var a,b,c;var d,e,f;a = "GAY AS HELL!!!";b = "BISEXUAL!!!";c = "transvestite!!!";1 = "MAC user + MAC buyer"; 2 = "MAC user && PC user (at the same time)" ;3 = "Hackingtosh user + MAC user + PC user";d = 1+a;e = 2+b;f = 3+c;if (d <= e || e>=d || e<=f || f>=d){ " YOU JUST A CONFUSED DUMB ASS";}

Yeah, there is a kind of "buy, buy, buy NOW!"

And don't you more stupi.d PC user...

Become a sensitive human only if you have MAC... JUA JUA JUA

All it's stinky marketing...

i'm a PC/LINUX/MAC user and i fill sad when i Turn on my PC and i contaminated all...