Your Mac-- Male or Female? :)

What sex is your Mac?

  • Male

  • Female

  • I... just... can't... decide...

  • Aw, who cares, anyway?

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Hey, it's a perfectly good question. It sometimes sparks some interesting conversations, too.

It's one of those "cocktail party" things more than anything else though...
 
The three things that alter whether your mac is male or female:

  1. Model
  2. Your Gender
  3. Surroundings or what it is used for
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Originally posted by Bluefusion
What color is your punk rock chick iBook? :)
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Well, I didn't change the case color yet, but I want to change it to a light blue... Kinda like your avatar actually!

-B
 
Oh, you mean it's a white iceBook? Ooooh. I thought that it was a clamshell. :)

BTW: yeah, the color of my avatar is by far my favorite color in the world! :)
 
I suppose... although one would think that having an two black tower speakers (alteclansing atp3s) instead of the clear Pro Speakers and a very masculine-looking printer, in addition to two vertical (very geeky-looking) networking devices and--the ultimate "male-looking device", a Visor Prism, would make me think my computer was male... but it doesn't... :p
 
well my mac is neither :p
I basically call it "Admiralty" (I think this is becoming an obsession :p what sayeth thee ed ? ;) )


Admiral
 
Fine. she doesn't. Trillian has lots of masculine peripherals around her but she doesn't at all make me think she's male because of it.

How's THAT for personification? LOL.
 
No, you said that it thinks that she's female. How does it do that?

Trillian has lots of masculine peripherals around her but she doesn't at all make me think she's male because of it.
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Wouldn't that make her seem more female?:D
 
The current naming convention with my computers is to name them after my favorite mathematicians/physicist. Around the room we have Feynman (Rhapsody 5.1), Archimedes (Solaris 7), Milnor (Rhapsody 5.6), Gauss (Irix 6.2), Fermi (Mac OS 8.6), Euclid (Mac OS X), Bonnet (A/UX 3.0), Euler (Irix 5.3), Morse (Irix 5.3), and Riemann (Rhapsody 5.1). My two Quadra 900 series systems are named HAL 9000 and SAL 9000 (both Mac OS 8.1), so I guess SAL is the only female computer I currently have running around me right now.
 
My iMac is called Mr. iMac lol

He's male ;)

I wonder what I'll call my iBook. Not Mr. iBook, cause that would only be appropriate for the Graphite and white iBook, because it loos like it's wearing a tux :p
 
the two macs I've had have both been girls

a lime green imac (Lisa)
and my current DP450 (Selma).

My windows machine I just call stupid motherf****r.
 
Aren't their languages that have gender for everything (le Car)?

What gender do these languages say a Mac is?

When a new thing comes into being, who decides its gender? How?
 
Yes. French, Spanish, Swedish, I think Danish, and a few others all do this. I have never understood how or why. In Spanish, a computer is "computadora" which I assume is feminine. I don't know the French word.
 
The French word is "ordinateur," and it's masculine.

Noun genders. Man I hate French. :D

Not as bad as Latin, though.

And don't be a wiseass and ask what the Latin word for computer is. :p

-the valrus
 
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