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    Apple University Market Share

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by taelrak, Oct 5, 2007.

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  2. Eleison

    Eleison Thanatos Eleison

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    It makes sense. I don't understand it, but education professionals seem to think Macs are the holy grail of computing. School systems seem to be pretty evenly split over PC vs. Mac, but if the education professionals are pushing for more Macs, more students are being exposed to Mac computing while in high school. Naturally, they will want to continue with that same comfortable computing experience in college. With the advent of Bootcamp, even gamers are able to justify getting a Mac.

    Many college-aged kids are interested in at least rudimentary graphic design (hell, even my best friend from college, a fellow English major who didn't like computers, was adept at photo manipulation), and just a little research tells anyone who cares that a Mac is better for photo editing.

    I'd be interested to see how the trend continues, but I still like my PC :D
     
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    Isn't Photoshop the same on Mac and PC for all intensive purposes?
     
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    Eleison Thanatos Eleison

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    As far as I know, it is, but any Mac evangelist will tell you that the Mac is 10x better than the PC. It could just be that Macs have less bloat to interfere with the program, but I don't know.
     
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    Yep, UW is a hotspot for Mac users. The MacBook is the second most popular notebook on campus, after the dv6000.
     
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    Yea, based on just observation, 40% of my class uses Apple laptops of some kind, 40% uses Dell Latitudes, 15% uses Thinkpads, and 5% use some other random laptops like Toshiba or Gateway. Interestingly, I haven't seen that many HP laptops in my class (although I have at work).
     
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    Hehe, "all intents and purposes" :D . Unless you meant intensive, in which case, move along...
     
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    Photoshop is very hardware intensive so ya a couple of years ago Macs where better at it but now the field is even so now the winner will be the one useing a Raid for there scratch file :p
     
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    The Mac used to have an advantage over Windows in the production field, but nowadays, all the Adobe software has Mac and PC versions, and they both run very well. Only a few major production software are still Mac exclusive, Apple's professional software (Final Cut, Logic, Aperture) being the obvious ones.

    And seriously, this trend mostly has to do with the iPod halo effect. Half the people that buy iPods buy it to look cool, and them carrying a Apple notebook makes them even cooler. That's their huge incentive into buying into a Mac for college :p.
     
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    [​IMG]
     
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    That is awesome, 00fez :p.
     
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    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

    don't like the green ones though
     
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    Was this at an Apple-related session or something? :p

    A quick check on the Mizzou IT site and bookstore site shows that although there's a significant emphasis on Apple products, they don't have any specific requirements on using Apple products. Dell is even linked on the bookstore as well - so hard to see why there are so many Apple laptops together unless it was an Apple-related event.
     
    taelrak, Oct 5, 2007
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