Report Mac vs. PC: The stereotypes may be true.

[tom_mai78101]

(CNN) -- Remember those Apple ads that cast the Mac as a 20-something, self-satisfied hipster while the PC was portrayed by an older, square-looking guy in a brown suit?

Well, those characterizations, unfair as they may be, appear to have some truth to them.

An unscientific survey by Hunch, a site that makes recommendations based on detailed user preferences, found that Mac users tend to be younger, more liberal, more fashion-conscious and more likely to live in cities than people who prefer PCs.

Of the 388,000 Hunch users who responded to a question about computer loyalty, 52% identified themselves as PC people as opposed to 25% who said they are Mac devotees. Hunch then cross-referenced those responses with answers to other questions to draw cultural distinctions between the rival Mac and PC camps.

The results suggest Mac users can be seen, depending on your perspective, as bolder and more creative -- or elitist and more pretentious.

The report found that 67% of Mac users have a college or advanced degree, as opposed to 54% of PC users. Mac loyalists are 80% more likely than PC users to be vegetarians, and, unlike PC fans, would rather ride a Vespa scooter than a Harley.

Read more here.

 

[Darthfett]

An unscientific survey by Hunch

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Hunch then cross-referenced those responses with answers to other questions to draw cultural distinctions between the rival Mac and PC camps.

http://www.correlated.org/

 

[Bronxernijn]

 

[Dan]

this really says nothing about PC users. It's mostly statistically more informative of the fact that a smaller range of people prefer macs. The mac users tend to be more alike than the PC users I am getting.

 

[Hatebreeder]

I use both ! So that makes me so much more not co0l =P

Btw, I don't understand why people wouldn't want to ride a Harley Just for the cause of being different?

 

[tom_mai78101]

I wondered if Macs can help make amends with my midterm exams.

 

[pr0-assasin]

of course macs are going to be for the more creative, they lean more for art, design, fashion, music students.

 

[FireCat]

Btw, I don't understand why people wouldn't want to ride a Harley Just for the cause of being different?

Maybe it's Just about taste?

this really says nothing about PC users.

umm, yeah, I agree with that. Just a bunch Of Crap.

 

[SH4D0WS1N]

found that mac users tend to be younger, more liberal, more fashion-conscious and more likely to live in cities than people who prefer pcs.

ahahahahhahahaha good one

Mac users can be seen -snip- more pretentious.

Yep.

 

[Slapshot136]

is there also any correlation between people who live in cities and people who can afford to throw away money?

 

[Ninva]

Ha, the people who use Macs here are the polar opposite.

 

[xPass]

Well, I just love my PC.

 

[Ninja_sheep]

I read an article once saying mac users are more likely to be gay.

Hillarious, isn't it?

But now I can't find it

 

[Flare]

I read an article once saying mac users are more likely to be gay.

Hillarious, isn't it?

But now I can't find it

This one?

Spoiler

 

[tom_mai78101]

Mac, PC users bash each other over survey results.

(CNN) -- Oh, you Mac and PC users. You sure don't like each other much.

We set off a firestorm with Friday's CNN.com story about an unscientific survey that found cultural and sociological differences between people who use Macs and those who use PCs. The survey found, among other things, that Mac loyalists tend to be younger, more liberal, more urban, more design-conscious and more likely to be vegetarians than people who prefer PCs.

Our story has received more than 5,300 comments -- most of them from Mac or PC users who seized on the opportunity to bash each others' brains out verbally. As any reader of tech blogs knows, this Mac-PC rivalry is nothing new.

But the intensity of the debate, even after all these years, still caught us off guard. Many of the comments were heated, filled with name calling (lots of Apple "sheep" references) and worse. And quite a few readers veered from the survey topic, which focused on computer users, to argue the merits of the respective machines themselves.

Here are some of the most thoughtful ones (comments edited for length, grammar and punctuation).

 

[Jedimindtrixxx]

The survey found, among other things, that Mac loyalists tend to be younger, more liberal, more urban, more design-conscious and more likely to be vegetarians than people who prefer PCs.
RL]

so its settled: mac owners ARE more likely to be homosexual.

 

[ReVolver]

so its settled: mac owners ARE more likely to be homosexual.

All the people I know who own a Mac are openly gay, makes you wonder...