firecat: person with cat ears sticking tongue out (firecat avatar tongue)firecat (attention machine in need of calibration) ([personal profile] firecat) wrote,
@ 2012-04-18 12:42 pm UTC
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Crossposts:http://firecat.livejournal.com/761863.html
"A Macbook Pro is just as much of a status marker as a Louis Vuitton purse or a BMW."

I recoil at the notion because I think Vuitton purses and BMWs signal a different class than ones I identify with. (At least I tend to have prejudices about people who have those things—I'll assume "not like me" unless I get evidence to the contrary.) But I do think that, in California at least, there's a class I might call "hi-tech professionals" and having Mac products can signal identification with it.

FWIW, I think I'm kind of clueless about class.

Anyway, it's interesting to contemplate. What do you think?

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[personal profile] amethystfirefly
2012-04-18 09:53 pm UTC (link)
I think an iPad or iPhone is more of a class marker. I think that Macbooks and other Apple computers tend to be seen as a geek cred thing. Sort of a "I finished learning all the good shit on Windoze, so I moved up to an Apple" thing.

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[personal profile] firecat
2012-04-18 10:19 pm UTC (link)
That's my impression too. Although it's certainly true that Mac laptops are more expensive than Windows ones, so if "being seen with something expensive" = "status marker" then...

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[personal profile] amethystfirefly
2012-04-18 10:30 pm UTC (link)
In certain circles, it might be.

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