Comments on: Platform choice and political ideology? http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2007/02/05/platform-choice-and-political-ideology/ Just another Walker Blogs weblog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:45:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Kevin from Minneapolis http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2007/02/05/platform-choice-and-political-ideology/#comment-359 Kevin from Minneapolis Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:58:40 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/?p=300#comment-359 I don't know what you'll have to pry from my cold, dead hands first: my Mac or my Ronald Regan biography. I was raised in an all Mac culture, didn't use Windows until I went to college. What a piece of crap that is. I don’t know what you’ll have to pry from my cold, dead hands first: my Mac or my Ronald Regan biography. I was raised in an all Mac culture, didn’t use Windows until I went to college. What a piece of crap that is.

]]> By: bryan kennedy http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/2007/02/05/platform-choice-and-political-ideology/#comment-360 bryan kennedy Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:47:51 +0000 http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/?p=300#comment-360 Just like you said Macs tend to be used for more artsy, design, education, and creative purposes. Windows machines at least started out as business tools. Obviously I am grossly over-simplifying here. These pursuits are more likely to show political correlations than computer choice. So I think that is why you are seeing the numbers like this. Here at the <a href="http://www.smm.org" rel="nofollow">Science Museum</a> 8-9% of our online visitors are using a Mac. Whatever that means?? This sounds like something the Pew Internet and American Life Project needs to look into. Just like you said Macs tend to be used for more artsy, design, education, and creative purposes. Windows machines at least started out as business tools. Obviously I am grossly over-simplifying here. These pursuits are more likely to show political correlations than computer choice. So I think that is why you are seeing the numbers like this.

Here at the Science Museum 8-9% of our online visitors are using a Mac. Whatever that means?? This sounds like something the Pew Internet and American Life Project needs to look into.

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