I found a cute desktop wallpaper on the internet some time ago, and have recently put it back up on my Pismo, as well as the iMac I use at college. It's an interesting twist on the traditional, "Hi, I'm a Mac" "And I'm a PC," WALL-E style. Just Google "Wall-E Eve Mac PC" and you'll see what I'm talking about. (I'm a columnist for the college newspaper, and my editor-in-chief [a girl] thought it was "so cute!" I didn't know she was so sentimental.) Anyway, it somewhat contradicts my perception of the Mac camp vs. the PC camp. I've always seen Macs as very EVE-like: aesthetically appealing, clean, and usually built-in with a bunch of "hidden", really cool features. WALL-E, though, doesn't strike me as the best match for PC (that would probably be MO). Perhaps it's the fact that he makes the Macintosh chime when his batteries are full, or the fact that he's got a bunch of Apple stuff in his truck-thing on earth… What I've noticed, both in the LEM community and out in the real world, is that owners of newer and/or home/education-level Macs (iBooks, MacBooks, etc.) usually tend to be female, whereas owners of older and/or professional-level Macs (MacBook Pro, Mac Pro, Power Macs, PowerBooks) tend to be male (I'm using my old PowerBook G3 Pismo, after all). My Mom likes the iMac G4 I bought, my Dad likes my Pismo. My younger sister uses her iBook Clamshell (formerly mine—and I'm not sorry I bought my Pismo to replace it), and my even younger brother is almost obsessed with my even-older PowerBook Duo 230 that eventually found its way into his hands. My other brother, just younger than me, prefers PC—go figure. At school, I see a lot of guys with MacBook Pros, and a lot of girls with MacBooks. There are rare exceptions, but that's generally the case. I also see a lot of iPod Touches with the guys, and a lot of Nanos with the girls. Anybody else noticed this, or am I seeing a local phenomenon?
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