How Old Are MacTumors Members?

[TyleRomeo]

I'm just curious how old everyone is here. I think it would give us a better idea who were talking to at macrumors. I'd like to know who here is in high school and who here is retired, and everyone else is inbetween. Also maybe you guys could post if youre a male or female. I wonder how many members here are females.

To get things started I'm 21 and male.

tyler

[idkew]

Its not a Tumor!!

[beez7777]

15 :)

[TyleRomeo]

Originally posted by idkew
Its not a Tumor!!

haha, my bad

[arn]

The average age of registered MacRumors users is close to 30 yrs old.

I'm 28, and male.

arn

[scem0]

Im a 15 year old male.

[King Cobra]

One of the worst places to misspell anything would be the title.

17

BTW: There were respective threads a long time back for how old everyone here is, and how many women are on the boards. Both were polls, but the women one I'm talking about goes a long while back.

Tumors: Remove them at the "T". :D

[vniow]

Age? that's an easy one. Old enough to be considered an adult, but not old enough to be considered a responsible drunk.;)

Now gender, that's a tough one..........

[krossfyter]

Originally posted by King Cobra
One of the worst places to misspell anything would be the title.



yeah really!

heh



24 .... 25 soon here on the 14th of october.


male

[spinner]

I'm a 23 year old male.

[chibianh]

I'm 19.. going twenty in a few months! Ahh.. I already miss the teenage years.:( :(

ps.. i'm male

[Fezwick]

Just turned 19. I'm a male

[Durandal7]

Good News!

MacTumors.com is available!

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by Durandal7
Good News!

MacTumors.com is available!

ha ha ha!! :D

maybe arn should grab it before it's gone!

btw...I'm 25...

[Cursor]

I'm 25. 26 next month. And I am a male.

[mac15]

16 male

[krossfyter]

Originally posted by Durandal7
Good News!

MacTumors.com is available!


hehe

http://celica.net/ubb/graemlins/owned.gif



http://celica.net/ubb/graemlins/laugh.gif

[scem0]

It looks like all males so far and a 'not sure' from edvniow. :D:D

[Shrek]

22 almost 23-year-old male

[vniow]

Originally posted by scem0
and a 'not sure' from edvniow. :D:D


Hey, it's complicated.:)

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by Shrek
22 almost 23-year-old male

really?

wow.....

[diorio]

16, almost 17 and male.

[Spike Spiegel]

19, and male. edvniow, do you mean you are in an inbetween state, or that you are on your way toward becoming one but not quite rid of the other?

[vniow]

Originally posted by weezerophile
19, and male. edvniow, do you mean you are in an inbetween state, or that you are on your way toward becoming one but not quite rid of the other?


Like I said, it's complicated. ;)

[diorio]

Originally posted by edvniow



Like I said, it's complicated. ;)

I just read your new signature, and I must say, you've added some personal touches, very nice.:D

[Backtothemac]

I am 32 and the Mrs is 35
;)

[bousozoku]

Oh no!! I'm three times as old as some, twice as old as others....eeeek! :D

[Chisholm]

Originally posted by Backtothemac
I am 32 and the Mrs is 35
;)

I am 32 as well, but my otherhalf is 33. DUDE! Get out of TuscaVegas! Things are tooooooooooo weird for us not to have met!;)

[MacBandit]

I am in the same boat as Eye he's 25 and I will be 25 also on the last day of the month. No pun intended. :)

[edesignuk]

18, going on 8 male :p;)

[britboy]

I'm a 22 year old male, with the mental power of 10 females :D

[robbieduncan]

24, male.

[OSeXy!]

Well, until bousozoku puts an actual figure next to his boast, it looks like I'm the resident old codger here at 33.

Anyone want to take my title (please)?

Edit>
Ah - just read your profile, bousozoko. Congratulations on your recent b-day. Take the crown, and have a seat. You must be tired. ;)

[mmmdreg]

15 and male I think jk

[mcrain]

I'm 30 and male.

[dreamlance]

Apparently I'm the first certain female to post on this thread.

Just turned 21 on 10.02.

[scem0]

Originally posted by britboy
I'm a 22 year old male, with the mental power of 10 females :D

I can see that from your avatar.

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by OSeXy!
Well, until bousozoku puts an actual figure next to his boast, it looks like I'm the resident old codger here at 33.

Anyone want to take my title (please)?

Edit>
Ah - just read your profile, bousozoko. Congratulations on your recent b-day. Take the crown, and have a seat. You must be tired. ;)

Oh thank you. :P It's not as if I hid anything.

I'm 43 going on 16 going on 400.

You're not the next oldest anyway--that may be DukeStreet.

[zed]

22 here... less than a month until 23

I spend most of my time remembering the "good ole days"

ahh.... those were the days......

[scem0]

you know you're only 23 - youve got a lot of time ahead of you :D.

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by zed
22 here... less than a month until 23

I spend most of my time remembering the "good ole days"

ahh.... those were the days......

You kind of have to be old to have good OLD days.

Though I do reflect on my innocent youth at times. I usually laugh.

[shadowfax]

17 and male... of course, "coming of age" november 20, and apple had damned well better have a new PB for my birthday, because that's what i've been promised! :)

[alex_ant]

Originally posted by britboy
I'm a 22 year old male, with the mental power of 10 females :D
So that would make your IQ what, 140 or so? :D

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by MacBandit
I am in the same boat as Eye he's 25 and I will be 25 also on the last day of the month. No pun intended. :)

u are in the same boat as yourself?! :eek:

he he he...still...it's gotta be cool to have a Halloween birthday :D ;)

[Zenith]

I'm 19, and male. And I'm sure about that, as opposed to certain others on this forum...

[MrMacMan]

14, male and other or all other reasons in school, gotta go! :p

[gambit]

Im proabably the youngest. 14! But my 168 IQ makes up for that!:D :p

[gambit]

Shoot! Its a tie!:(

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by eyelikeart


u are in the same boat as yourself?! :eek:

he he he...still...it's gotta be cool to have a Halloween birthday :D ;)

The only boat I'm in is a Nuclear Sub. I wish.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by bousozoku
Oh no!! I'm three times as old as some, twice as old as others....eeeek! :D

hey, same as me...i will be 39 next month, and i am male, self employed, football, baseball, and basketball fan, and rooting for giants to win world series

is that enough information?

i think there were a few twelve year olds here but maybe there are younger posters also

[job]

16, male.

[Gravity]

33 years old...soon to turn 34. The Mrs. is 39.

[zed]

Originally posted by Gravity
33 years old...soon to turn 34. The Mrs. is 39.

Do all you of married guys have older wives? What is this trend about? :D

[Gravity]

It's just that I'm "old" beyond my years...but still a kid at heart. It takes an older woman to appreciate those qualities!

[Mr. Anderson]

I'm still a kid, and I'm 38 and the wife's 39. I've no complaints about being the younger one in the marriage.

[zed]

My girlfriend (of 5 years) will soon be 24, and ill soon be 23.

Im with you all the way :cool: :cool:

[mcrain]

Originally posted by britboy
I'm a 22 year old male, with the mental power of 10 females :D

How did women's intuition develop?




Centuries of not thinking!

[britboy]

Originally posted by alex_ant

So that would make your IQ what, 140 or so? :D


as high as that? ;)

[Gravity]

It blows my mind how times change...we have 14 year-old kids posting here. When I was fourteen, only affluent adults could afford a personal computer....the Apple II still remaining the PC of choice then. If you wanted a computer, you had to learn BASIC.

GOD, I LOVE MY MAC!!! Things are way better now. If it weren't for the mac, I'd be journalist, not a designer.

Although Steve Jobs isn't old enough to be MY father...I wish he would adopt me! I want access to the coolest, new toys...and be heir to his fortune!

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by britboy
as high as that? ;)

all depends on what you're smoking I guess - you're just lucky none of the female members catch a whiff of this, cause I don't think the results will be favorable to keeping the thread open......;)

[mcrain]

Originally posted by dukestreet
all depends on what you're smoking I guess - you're just lucky none of the female members catch a whiff of this, cause I don't think the results will be favorable to keeping the thread open......;)

You know what I don't understand. If Macs are so much easier to use, wouldn't you think that women would flock to them, if not by choice, but by necessity?

:eek:

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by mcrain


You know what I don't understand. If Macs are so much easier to use, wouldn't you think that women would flock to them, if not by choice, but by necessity?

:eek:

i think i'm not going to touch this one - too dangerous, especially since the wife frequents the forums now and then......

[mischief]

Typically women are a helluva lot smarter than men. Not in the standard IQ ways neccessarily but certainly in the "remember that thing U said 3 years ago that now makes you a hipocrite?" way.:eek: ;) :D

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by gambit
Shoot! Its a tie!:(
Yup :D
But I Know there are many younger members, DOWN YOU LITTLE KIDS!
Hehehe. ;) I know how it feels to have a high IQ too, acually most mac users have higher than windows users IQ.
They did a study. :)

[void]

12/Male 1/11/1990 I blew all of you fools out of the water!!!
P.S. 80th post!!! (I know this is stupid)

[shadowfax]

it's funny to hear people bash the femmes. i am in the International Baccalaureate program at my high school (www.ibo.org to read about it). it's a very challenging program; 10 of the 12 national merit semifinalists at our school this year are in it (me being one of them). and surprise, the females are (a) more honest than the guys, (b) more involved in extracurricular stuff, (c) generally much more intelligent, and (d) much more numerous than the males in the program.

all this to say, sure, lots of people are dumb. guys just overlook the blatant stupidity they see among their guy friends and fail to overlook that which they see in women, thus leaving the impression on their infinitesimal brains that women are dumb.

rest assured, in my experience, it's just not so. when you enter the truly academic playing field (and no i do not mean JUST specializing in technology or any single field, that doesn't make you smart at all--you have to have much more than that), you will see things differently.

i'm fairly conservative and full of old, outdated values. but you just invite hell-fire from anyone with any sense in his head. and let me be the first to cast a stone. anyone who thinks women are inherently less intelligent than men can go to hell.

[mc68k]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
rest assured, in my experience, it's just not so. when you enter the truly academic playing field (and no i do not mean JUST specializing in technology or any single field, that doesn't make you smart at all--you have to have much more than that), you will see things differently.booksmarts yes, common sense no

emotions will only get you so far

[vniow]

Thus was a toughie, but I think I got it somewhat figured out.
I've put it all into three categories to make it a little easier........................for me.;)

Body: 80% male
Techincally I'm a male but I have remarkably smoth skin and a tite little hourglass figure.:D

Mind: 70% female
I get along with my girl friends better than my guy friends so we must have a bit more in common.
I also find that I operate mostly off of emotion rathr than logic.

Spirit: 70% female
I guess that's just how it feels, no real explanation for this one.:)

So I guess I'm a chick then.

Now you see why I'm so confused.:p

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go pluck some eyebrows............

[shadowfax]

Originallly posted by MC68k
booksmarts yes, common sense no
emotions will only get you so far

ok, to get philosophical on you... to what extent do you think it is natural for females to let emotion get the best of them?

if you ask me, that is a culture thing, and has much much more to do with people like you expecting as much than with them actually being more emotional.

there are many emotional, tipsy women. that's a given in a planet of 6 billion different people, the majority of which are female. however, there are many stable, easygoing women too.

on the other hand, it's not my experience that men by and large have more "sense" about them, that they reason through all or even many of their actions. sure there are many who do, but there are plenty of men who behave in a manner that you would consider "effeminate." and the bulk group of males is probably in between. they have no common sense and no book smarts.

i don't presume to know a hell of a lot about gender demographics in the world, but i am positive that the simplistic interpretations i have seen here in this thread are very very wrong. you can't just make generalizations like that about such diverse groups of people as men and women.

[mc68k]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
ok, to get philosophical on you... to what extent do you think it is natural for females to let emotion get the best of them?i was just being general. nothing is definite, especially with gender these days.

my generalizations come from empirical observations of the sex as a whole.

[vniow]

Originally posted by mc68k
i was just being general. nothing is definite, especially with gender these days.



You got that right.;)

I think you can gereralize, but only to a point.
My experience has been that men are every bit as emotional as women, they're just not quite as in touch with them so they usually don't know how to use them to their advantage.
The advantage of that being that there's more room for logical thinking since emotions are kept at a distance most of the time.

It is culture, but I find that culture evolves from what already exists.:)

[shadowfax]

mmmmm....

Originallly posted by MC68k
booksmarts yes, common sense no
emotions will only get you so far

next time you try to be general, you might try using general words, like "general," usually," "often," "sometimes," etc.

i would never condemn generalizations (though mine are certainly fairly different from yours because i have different experience), but this

Originally posted by britboy
I'm a 22 year old male, with the mental power of 10 females
and this
Originally posted by alex_ant
So that would make your IQ what, 140 or so?
and this
Originally posted by britboy
as high as that?

really get on my nerves, facetious or no. they may well be kidding, and i generally don't have a problem with that sort of humor, but... it doesn't go over well online, for me.

the only way you can intake your daily experience of the world is through generalizations. this is how your mind gets numbed to a daily routine. but the very fact that you have to make generalizations ought to make you all the more careful in doing so.

whatever, though... just think before you guys punch the keys.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by Shadowfax


the only way you can intake your daily experience of the world is through generalizations. this is how your mind gets numbed to a daily routine. but the very fact that you have to make generalizations ought to make you all the more careful in doing so.


sometimes when one looks at life for four decades, it is always refreshing to see someone outside of the box who does not fit one's generalizations

as a techie who has worked in and around silicon valley, i found other techies of all types (self taught to phd level) to either be drawn to hardware or software...but very, very rarely both with equal fervor...but since i have seen posters who are here on macrumors who are not in the high tech field, i have seen many who are equally interested and adept at both since their non high tech job does not require them to choose or to specialize

i notice in the working world, most people who do the nine to five routine use either pcs or macs...but since i have joined macrumors, i have seen a lot of people who are not yet in the working world so they are very literate at both platforms and like them for their strengths

macrumors has opened up my world to people different from me...still in secondary school or college and not in the working world yet...and computer hobbyists who have the freedom to experiment and brach out in a way that a paid high tech job does not allow with such freedom...having met a lot of techies in the field, i still maintain the best and brightest are the passionate computer geeks still in high school/college and living at home where they have not been kicked in the teeth with kids, mortgage, rent, boss, employees, etc.

imagine what the computer world would have been without youngsters/teens like jobs, woz, gates, allen, ellison, dell, and fanning

i wish more high technology professionals would visit these forums...it would expand their perception of computers, and especially the mac:)