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Windows vs. Mac: I'm starting to change.
40hz:
But everything he needs for college is in OSX.
-cmpm (October 04, 2009, 11:57 AM)
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That alone seems like a pretty unarguable point for him using a Mac. It is his college machine after all.
When in Rome...:)
Innuendo:
That alone seems like a pretty unarguable point for him using a Mac. It is his college machine after all. -40hz (October 04, 2009, 01:56 PM)
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I think the unarguable point for cmpm is (and please forgive me if I'm putting words in your mouth) that with that Mac there's an ample enough supply of software available to help his child excel in college without there being an ability to run much software that will distract the child from his studies, i.e. no abundance of games that will take him away from his studies.
And I can appreciate that. If one is putting their child through college (paying tuition, buying books, buying a PC for studies, etc.) one would want to ensure that one is getting a good return on one's investment rather than finding out later the child has been spending time best spent on studying on trying to become a professional gamer. ;)
Lashiec:
We all know the Mac lacks any kind of distraction. No Boot Camp and it doesn't even have a browser :P
Why is Acrobat such an enormous application? It's all bloat. Don't come to me with the features that 0.001% of the people use. I bet the program could be 20 MB and nobody would notice. And a hell of a lot faster. It should open and close almost before you click the button.
Same with Office. Let's talk Outlook. All it does is email and calendar stuff. So slow. There's no need.
Same with any large mainstream software. Nero, Mcafee, Norton, Photoshop. It just doesn't seem like we are able to enjoy the processing power we have today. The more power we get, the more bloated programs get. And if the OS is bloated or inefficient, then we're instantly off to a bad start.
-superboyac (October 03, 2009, 04:17 PM)
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But no one is forcing you to use that software. There are several lightweight alternatives to all the apps you have mentioned which most of the times can beat the functionality they offer by quite some margin.
40hz:
But no one is forcing you to use that software. There are several lightweight alternatives to all the apps you have mentioned which most of the times can beat the functionality they offer by quite some margin.
-Lashiec (October 04, 2009, 03:34 PM)
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Very true. But when all your peers and instructors use Macs; and all the handouts and examples you are given show a Mac interface; and your formal and ad hoc support networks all think in terms of Macintosh - why fight it? You'll be done in 4 or so years - after which you can switch to anything you want.
As long as they work, there's a lot to be said for standards and platform commonality. In some environments (like a school) almost any standard is preferable to platform chaos, even if it's not an ideal one. A standardized platform removes one unnecessary source of distraction from the mix.
At least so long as it works.
And Macintosh computers (bless their pointed little heads!) do work rather well. So do PCs and NIX boxes. And so do books, pens, paper, and slide rules!
In the end it doesn't really matter what 'gets used' as long as the student is getting educated. :)
to help his child excel in college without there being an ability to run much software that will distract the child from his studies,
-Innuendo (October 04, 2009, 03:06 PM)
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I'm not sure that's so true any more. :tellme:
Except for the real diehards, games aren't that big a thing at most colleges these days. At least from what I've seen. The biggest sources of distraction seem to originate on the Internet. And those are reachable from anywhere by any computer regardless of OS.
As long as there's things like Twitter, YouTube, FaceBook, P2P media torrents, chatrooms, e-mail, and porn sites ;D, the distractions will always be there.
And you won't need to break shrinkwrap to be exposed to them.
Lashiec:
Very true. But when all your peers and instructors use Macs; and all the handouts and examples you are given show a Mac interface; and your formal and ad hoc support networks all think in terms of Macintosh - why fight it? You'll be done in 4 or so years - after which you can switch to anything you want.
-40hz (October 04, 2009, 04:15 PM)
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Huh? I was commenting on superboyac examples of bloated software on Windows, not on the adequacy of a Mac computer on a Mac ecosystem :)
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