I'd take issue with that sweeping stateent - pretty much all of my student friends have laptops, some have both. I live in a house with five other people - in total there's three mac users and three windows users. Me, I'm a Windows expert, one of my housemates is a Mac expert. The other three are more 'users' than 'power users' - but whenever there's a problem with one of the Macs, they usually end up coming to me for help (and I can usually sort the problem out even though I hate macs and osx). The mac users can't make head nor tail of how the OS works - they just don't "understand" it. It's like watching my mum use a computer - she uses it by rote, she doesn't understand 'how' it works or how it achieves what it does.
Inded, MANY of the more technically-minded people on my course either use Windows or ave both a pc and a mac - and I only use a mac because I have to (music tech and production course, we do lotsof work with DAWs and protools et al, and that's always traditionally been a mac-led industry). I often find that people I speak to who have PCs understand how they work better than the people with Macs - they're much more newbie users. Of course, there's many MANY expert Mac users out there, but to me it seems that age range of people I hang around with seem to buy macs much more for the style impact, because they look pretty, than for what they offer technology-wise. It depresses me, we need some kind of intelligence test which will bar a machine from starting up if they get it wrong, that'll weed out the people who are clueless users fast enough (and solve problems like phishing and botnets - which would then indirectly lessen the problem of spam - imho, because only people who don't know how to secure their machines fall prey to those kinds of social engineering). </elitist></rant> Personaly I always prefer to remain platform-agnostic, and it really annoys me when I have to stay locked in to any one platform, whether it's windows OR mac. After using Windows for uch a long time, there are many small things which REALLY annoy me about using OSX - to the point where I can consciously feel my productivity worsening as a result. That hacks me off. > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Lamont [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 March 2007 15:03 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] Browser Stats > > I think that it depends on what your demographic is. If you > are talking about people who barely know how to switch on a > computer, then you are going to get windows users. For > people who actually use a computer for what it is intended, > then, for instance in the scientific community, 50% of people > use Macs because of the UNIX base, then 30% are Linux users > and the rest use Windows. > > Cheers, > Matt > > Thank you to those who donated to my rowing challenge. We > managed to raise over £3000 ($6000) for Teesside Hospice. > > England expects that every man will do his duty - Admiral > Horatio Lord Nelson, 21st October 1805 > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > ---------------- > Matthew A. C. Lamont > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WNSL - West, Room 309 phone: (203) 432 5834 > Physics Department, Yale University fax: (203) 432 8926 > P.O. Box 208124 > 272 Whitney Avenue > New Haven, CT 06520-8124, USA > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > ----------------- > > > > On 30 Mar 2007, at 08:11, Kirk Northrop wrote: > > > Andy wrote: > >> I can see how it got Netscape, FireFox is derived from the > Netscape > >> code base, but how it got from the word "Linux" into the > word Mac I > >> don't know. And this was for a user agent that was stating > it's OS as > >> Linux. > > > > Simple - Not Windows probably means Mac OS. In a tiny > amount of cases > > it means Linux, or DOS or OS/2 etc, but even this is a tiny > percentage > > compared to Mac OS, and anyone using such an OS is likely > to be tech > > minded. > > > > -- > > From the North, this is Kirk > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > > please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/ > > mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail- > > archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
