Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And these Macites can drive you to the roof very much like the PC techies.... :-) D. On Thursday, October 20, 2005, at 07:25AM, PHC <paul@paulhardycarter.com> wrote: >It's always struck me that the Mac seems to appeal to two groups. > >The first group is people who don't want to know about computers but >just want to use them (home users, designers...). Then you get the >people who don't use Macs, who like to know about computers, and like >to play around with caches and busses, to open up the box and get stuck >in. > >Then you get the second group of Macites - the most extreme "techies", >for whom the computer on their desk is simply a tool again. > >Just an observation. Probably nonsense. > >P. > >******* >Paul Hardy Carter >www.paulhardycarter.com >******* > >On 20 Oct 2005, at 15:23, Brian Reid wrote: > >> For the last half-dozen years my profession has been high-end IT >> administration management at leading-edge tech companies. I've >> observed that 90% of the cream of the crop of IT technical experts >> have Macs as their personal computers, and put a Mac on their desk if >> their manager allowed it. At my last 3 jobs, the typical desktop >> contents of the top IT experts at a company was 1 state-of-the-art Mac >> and 1 beater PC. >> >> This is probably not true at more ordinary companies that use IT but >> don't try to push it. > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >