Mini Mac: My impressions after week 2

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: werk

This is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever read. People on this forum never cease to amaze me.

Tell me which part of that you disagree with so I can own you publicly on the forum.

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: werk

This is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever read. People on this forum never cease to amaze me.

Tell me which part of that you disagree with so I can own you publicly on the forum.

Maybe he's talking about the whole correlation, causation thing?

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: BigJ

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: werk

This is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever read. People on this forum never cease to amaze me.

Tell me which part of that you disagree with so I can own you publicly on the forum.

Maybe he's talking about the whole correlation, causation thing?

I showed correlation, but made no claim of causation. Read again.

There was a similar thread a while back about Macs/VW. I stated (correctly) that Apple and VW share the same demographic group. Another user claimed that there was no correlation at all, the demographic group isn't the same, and owners from other car makers are just as likely to buy Macs as owners of VW's. After showing various links which stated the obvious (I was right), he recanted and admitted that he really didn't know to begin with.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ

Originally posted by: werk

This is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever read. People on this forum never cease to amaze me.

Tell me which part of that you disagree with so I can own you publicly on the forum.

Refusing to purchase a product because you don't like the political beliefs of other users (users -- not manufacturers) of said product is the most moronic reason for not purchasing something I've ever heard.

Go ahead, own away.

 

[mosco]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Mac fans are some of the least technically adept people on the face of the earth. I know a bunch, and they're firmly in the "end user" category. They're usually the people who don't know how to work on a computer, don't know how to work on a car, don't know how to do much of anything but clothes shop.

Also, I couldn't get into the Mac scene because their users are predominantly very liberal.

Thats a pretty ridiculous statement. I know a ton of windows users just like that. If you went to best buy to look at the computer section, you would find the same clueless users as you would at an apple store.

I am currently a CS major a tech school. In the 4 CS classes I have taken so far, atleast 1 out of 3 of the TAs for each class I have had used a powerbook. I would hardly consider those people not technically adept. And thats also a pretty pretty large percentage consider the mac user base percentage.

You will find non-experience users on both sides. Even if you could prove 100 percent to me that there more non-expereinced users on the mac, that does nothing to prove that the mac is somehow less advanced. I actually think that its pretty amazing at how flexible mac os x is. The unix backend is extremely powerful, yet for a novice user that doesn't want to deal with it doesn't have to to get stuff done.