Mac users are the tech elite: survey

Mac users have turned out to be tech elitists who believe that their devices are far superior to others and immune to virus and malware infections.

Indeed, 91% said their Mac was better than other rivals, and three quarters felt they didn’t need to be deep cleaned as often as other computers.

This is despite the fact that American adults have an average of 708 unread emails and 298 unused applications or folders – which means 41% have a computer that’s running slowly.

To shake them out of their complacency, the creators of the Mac cleaning app CleanMyMac

They issued the challenge after research by app developer MacPaw found that 57% of computer owners believe it will take them less than an hour to restore their device to its original state.

In fact, if the machine is more than a year old, it may take several days.

The Ukraine-developed app cleans, protects and speeds up Macs with a single button that safely scans every inch of your system and removes gigabytes of junk, large hidden files, old archives, unused apps and malware.

Now, Boston-based MacPaw is encouraging Mac users to watch a feature-length video called “Deep Clean” to show how foolish it is to manually rid their computers of viruses, suspicious old applications, junk files and hundreds of emails.

At eight hours, 57 minutes and 15 seconds, the film takes up just a few minutes of the time it takes to watch the entire first series of Friends and about half an hour to watch Republican Kevin McCarthy’s record-breaking strategic speech to the European Parliament. House of Representatives in 2021

So confident that it’s the technical equivalent of watching paint dry, MacPaw will give anyone who can endure it all in one go a 30% discount on CleanMyMac X – because they’ll certainly never want to go through boring, hard work in real life.

Oleksii Myronenko, product manager at MacPaw, whose products are used by 30 million people around the world, said: “Most people in the U.S. use a computer that is over a year old, which means it has a ton of system junk built up on it.” , duplicate files and huge amounts of useless documents and old tickets that you no longer need. All of this makes your device run slower, but we’ve found that many Mac users find that their computers don’t need cleaning.

“We created this video not because we want to put people to sleep, but to show how labor-intensive it is to clean your own device without any help.”

Elsewhere, a study found that a whopping 86% of 1,000 U.S. adults surveyed believe that technological innovations have made life much easier by saving time.

It has – 11 hours a day, in fact – from time-saving things like online shopping and the ability to have multiple conversations via WhatsApp rather than making individual phone calls.

It would be a shame to pay it off by spending days cleaning it by hand instead of pressing a button.

To watch The Deepest Clean video and for a chance to win a CleanMyMac X discount code, visit https://m.youtube.com/@CleanMyMac or download CleanMyMac X and start your free trial, visit https://m.youtube.com /@CleanMyMac ://macpaw.com/cleanmymac