I’ve encountered very few computer savvy Mac users. Maybe I’m not looking in the right places but I never could afford to pay for the proprietary boxes when I was growing up and detested the idea that all the software and hardware was so much more expensive than anything you could get for a PC or even the long dead Amiga.
I have observed similar situations.
If a person is a “true computer savvy” person then they don’t use macs or windows. They use linux or something else.
Macs are more for those who are less tech savy but want to LOOK more tech savy.
That said, I am no techno geek so I have my MS boxes for work. My business is too important to risk on emulators. It is also unjustifiable to spend extra money on essentially a very well designed pretty box.
Apple is a nice design house for hardware, but that is it.
(see also, why god gave us fords AND chevys. we all have choice)
It depends on the definition of "savvy". Mac users aren't very good at running anti-virus software, editing the registry, resolving IRQ conflicts or calling India for technical support. Many Windows users see those tasks as evidence of their computer savvy, but I see them as time-wasters.
I've encountered very few plumbing savvy toiler users. Toilets have become sufficiently reliable that the user, the person who flushes, does not need to know enough to plumb a building in order to use the toilet and flush it.
Early in the days of automobiles, some states required that the operator of an automobile be a licensed engineer. Now, one rarely encounters an engineering savvy automobile operator.
Draw your own conclusions.
I’ve encountered very few computer savvy computer users period.
When I start on rants about how terrible a language C++ is, or how these young punks cranking out software have no friggin’ clue how much their ignorance of cache line or data structure alignment of their data structures is costing in terms of CPU wait cycles, nearly every computer user’s eyes glaze over, then roll back in their heads.
And when I get started on the cult of C programming and how it imperils our national security.... people start to leave the room like I’ve just passed gas.
I’d reckon that 99% of all computer users are dumb as stumps and as useless as a bag full of doorknobs when it comes to actually changing anything about computing in general.
If they really wanted to be superior to the vast herd of unwashed masses, they’d be running OpenBSD and writing their own apps in Ada-95. I don’t see that happening too often.
Mac users just have their own type of ignorance. But a vast majority of the PeeCee users out there are just as ignorant, and just as smug about different aspects of their environment.
I just threw away a Dell mailer. It was crowing about 2 new products obviously designed to compete w/ Macs.
Well guess what? The laptop had close to the same system as my Mac Book Pro except it had a 13" screen instead of my 15".
Oh, it is $200 more than my Mac.
Have you priced OSX Leopard? $149, that probably has everything any Vista version has, and likely more.
I have 2 Dell desktops w/ XP. They are ok but when I need to upgrade it won't be to a PC.
Mr. vinnie