Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/20

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Subject: [Leica] New Apple software, Aperture
From: paul at paulhardycarter.com (PHC)
Date: Thu Oct 20 07:25:17 2005
References: <BF7C6425.7020%bdcolen@comcast.net> <4a44bae962202e990c3cd90c2f7ae0fa@paulhardycarter.com> <6.2.5.6.2.20051020142740.038d0cd8@screengang.com> <cf017718802cf2851e83edacd5be9d4e@paulhardycarter.com> <EA9CA8BD0A10C8C9767987A3@rutabook.reid.org>

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.

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Paul Hardy Carter
www.paulhardycarter.com
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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.


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