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Mac Users More Liberal Than Windows Users
Slashdot ^ | 4/24/11 | Soulskill

Posted on 04/24/2011 7:36:36 AM PDT by Clint Williams

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To: Clint Williams

This poll is useless and not surprising. Macs are more used at universities, and we know what type of people are there, from professors to the students. This is starting to change as Macs are starting to make inroads in the business world. Macs are also more expensive, and therefore the middle class are more likely to have PC’s.


41 posted on 04/24/2011 8:31:31 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: Clint Williams

Another thing...ever notice liberals drive Subarus?
Or I should say, the majority of Subuaru owners tend to be liberals


42 posted on 04/24/2011 8:32:06 AM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: Clint Williams

iGore thanks you for all the support.

43 posted on 04/24/2011 8:33:12 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: Clint Williams; Swordmaker

44 posted on 04/24/2011 8:41:40 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Clint Williams
Tools are tools. I use my Alienware for online games, serious research, and general 'heavy lifting'. I have an iPad 2 and a Samsung GalaxyS phone for work that I use for mobility, communications and light research.

The range of tools available and the flexibility that modern programs and apps provide a great competitive edge to anyone who takes the time to learn them. Apple has a solid image as a hip, adventurous product line, and I'm happy to redirect that marketing appeal against my own clients. The iPad 2 is good kit, but it definitely wows your client when you casually do something useful on it. They don't need to know I did my homework earlier with more powerful, less sexy tools.

As far as the political considerations of it, that analysis is weak, but on the right track. "Young, urban, educated", you say? While folks in that group may be liberal in general, they're something else in specific. To wit;

Trendy, image-conscious, and easily fooled by marketing.

Kind of explains their affinity for Messr Obama, no?

45 posted on 04/24/2011 8:57:01 AM PDT by Steel Wolf ("There are moderate Muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate." - Ibn Warraq)
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To: arderkrag

It’s true, I bought my Mac(s) because they weren’t Windows. After 30 years in the PC camp, I am finally Windows free and ain’t looking back. It’s gotten to the point that when my GF wants me to troubleshoot her W7 laptop, I damn near feel like pulling my hair out. I HATE that thing!


46 posted on 04/24/2011 9:01:21 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Powershell is also free, and was back-ported to run on XP SP2 and later. MS is switching over all of it’s system administration to using it, but it’s really a general purpose shell / scripting language that gives you access to all the .net libraries.


47 posted on 04/24/2011 9:06:03 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: Rashputin

Once Mac went to the Wintel architecture it was pretty much an admission that their previous systems could not compete against the speed and cost of the Intel based systems.

The Mac GUI is too cutsie for my taste and was a fan of Irix from SGI. Even SGI couldn’t compete against the Wintel design and has abandoned their Irix based systems and has since filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy.


48 posted on 04/24/2011 9:06:16 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: Clint Williams

I’m one of those horrible Conservatives, and I’ve owned nothing but Macs.


49 posted on 04/24/2011 9:13:34 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
This thread is too binary:

Linux!

I was just thinking the same thing. All of the linux users in my household are conservative-leaning independents, although the sample size (1) is probably too small to draw any legitimate conclusions.

My purely anecdotal observation is that linux users are generally hardcore computer geeks who do not ascribe to conventional political affiliations.

50 posted on 04/24/2011 9:29:39 AM PDT by VoiceOfBruck (Smile! You weren't aborted!)
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To: Clint Williams

Mac user here and I nor were any of my friends who also use macs asked and w e are some of the most conservative people you’d ever meet.I suspect since so many are used on colleges acrss America that they are the people who were asked.


51 posted on 04/24/2011 9:32:32 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: arderkrag
Most mac users I know bought one because “it’s not a windows machine so I’m not supporting GREEEEEDDDDD”.

This Mac user bought one because I was sick of viruses and the Blue Screen of Death. Four years later, my iMac is still running strong and virus-free. Two years ago I bought a Windows laptop for work use. I remembered immediately why I switched to Mac.

Nothing smug, green or liberal in my decision to use a Mac.

52 posted on 04/24/2011 9:35:33 AM PDT by Gena Bukin
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To: ccmay
Don’t care. I will NEVER go back to Windows.

You missed the meeting. Windows doesn't want you.
53 posted on 04/24/2011 9:38:20 AM PDT by Vision ("Did I not say to you that if you would believe, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40)
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To: Clint Williams
This is not really news. there had been a noticeable difference as early as 1996.

However, every rule has its exceptions

A well known conservative Apple user.
54 posted on 04/24/2011 9:41:08 AM PDT by jmcenanly ( "We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him." -Samuel)
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To: Clint Williams

Yes, they are different. For one thing they don’t feel pain the way we do.


55 posted on 04/24/2011 9:41:37 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: savedbygrace

“What about those of us who use both?”

Sounds like a RHINO thing to me...a moderate, middle-of-the-road approach. One of those...’can’t make up my mind’ approach.

The only consolation for you any of you Mac people is that Bill Gates is also a leftist. :)


56 posted on 04/24/2011 9:42:11 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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To: Clint Williams

People that own computers are probably more likely to be lib.
And consider this. Apple products ain’t cheap. Those that are sucking on the gov teet are more likely to have a non-Apple product.


57 posted on 04/24/2011 9:48:52 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: cripplecreek

I’d guess it is the old peerr pressure stuff...you know “see you have a mac there for you are liberal so if you really want to run with the herd”.... of course this is being typed on a MacBookPro and I’m probably on a scale of 1-100 in conservatism somewhere in the 95%+ range.They didn’t ask me....


58 posted on 04/24/2011 9:49:36 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Clint Williams

I can replace my battery?


59 posted on 04/24/2011 9:50:46 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: VoiceOfBruck

Linux users probably lean libertarian... they are DIY.


60 posted on 04/24/2011 9:50:52 AM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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