[martin_fierro]

[Steel Wolf]

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?

[mass55th]

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

[chris_bdba]

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.

[jmcenanly]

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.

[LouAvul]

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

[moehoward]

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.

[Welsh Rabbit]

I wouldn’t turn down a Mac as a matter of principle, but all I use the computer for is web surfing mostly, so I just need something cheap. My friends who have macs are really into video editing or composing music.

[Swordmaker]

An unscientific survey concludes Mac users are more Liberal than PC users. PING!

Please, No Flame Wars, Discuss technical issues, software, and hardware.
Don't attack people!

Don't respond to the Anti-Apple Thread Trolls!
 PLEASE IGNORE THEM!!!

 

Apple users are LIBERAL ? Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Ronin]

Them’s fightin’ words, Clint!!!

[PA Engineer]

a survey of 388,315 Hunch users

Blog Pimp Survey? Are you "series"?

[JaguarXKE]

"...more educatedindoctrinated than PC users, which could potentially be a contributing factor toward being more liberal." Fixed.

[Empireoftheatom48]

Love my conservitive IMac, IPad and IPhone! Don’t worry we will cream the Libs!

[KosmicKitty]

When I married my husband 18 years ago I went Mac.

And I’ll never go back.

[Revolting cat!]

[TheStickman]

Conservative and a happy mac-user. When a PC will run Logic Pro I might take a look at them again.

(typed on my iMac)

[Verbosus]

This Mac user isn’t.