apple.com— Nobody can say now that apple is not big in education. Let's hope the stores start to pop up soon here as well. That's Ireland covered!!
Mar 25, 2006View in Crawl 4
All that really matters is...Did they purchase Mac because they had a vision where they wanted to go and how it would improve the education of the students? If it was made out of some cert of disdain for Microsoft I feel sorry for them. If it was planned out and they fealt Macs would better integrate into their curriculum, then good for them.The reason you see a lot of PCs in Education is due to the plethora of software available from every which direction (some of it works on Macs some of it doesn't). Saving money isn't always the bottom line and education gets very deep discounts toward MS products.--Josh
"I don't really sit around my job making songs on GarageBand or whatever it's called, but I'm laying out schematics with AutoCad, so a Mac is completely and utterly useless to me. I wouldn't want one if it was free, because it would just clutter up my limited desk space."I'm not really sure what you are trying to argue, but let me clear up a couple of items here. First, GarageBand is a consumer program that comes free with a Mac. I don't think anyone uses it professionally, there are much better programs available for that. Second, there is no reason you can't do your schematics on a Mac (i.e. TurboCAD).
>Really? The iMacs we have in my multimedia class overheat all the time. Come on, it's only>5th period, and you're overheating again? (They are shut down for the night and turned on>1st period, btw). Then again, they can't ever seem to handle running iMovie and Safari at>the same time. Oh no!!! Two apps, omg. And this is the newest PowerMac, btw. Doesn't>matter that I can run bunches of apps (including graphics and movie-editing programs) on>my underpowered PC. Of course, the mac is the ultimate multimedia machine.i'm sorry but i don't believe a word of this. i have never seen a mac overheat and i have been in charge of hundreds. PCs too. everyday i thanked apple that they don't crash and burn like the PCs. i routinely run upwards of 20 apps... like photoshop... with firefox, safari and shiira running. the truth is that i rarely quit an app and i use them all day everyday. its on until i reboot some week or another. ususally on a system update.
spressMar 26, 2006
Good to hear, but alas... no Apple Store in Ireland yet.
deepsubMar 26, 2006
Apple has hack processors to thank for this...I'm sure Intel has a lot to do with this... They have fabs there that employ thousands.
naisanzaMar 26, 2006
i never liked apple computers, except for their pretty cases.
joshwehatetechMar 27, 2006
All that really matters is...Did they purchase Mac because they had a vision where they wanted to go and how it would improve the education of the students? If it was made out of some cert of disdain for Microsoft I feel sorry for them. If it was planned out and they fealt Macs would better integrate into their curriculum, then good for them.The reason you see a lot of PCs in Education is due to the plethora of software available from every which direction (some of it works on Macs some of it doesn't). Saving money isn't always the bottom line and education gets very deep discounts toward MS products.--Josh
hayden_evansMar 27, 2006
i don't see what your big deal is, if you don't like the story, don't read it, digg it, or troll the comments.
heydigitalMar 27, 2006
It's like the crusades all over again.
vinnyMar 28, 2006
It's not just a school.
vinnyMar 28, 2006
"I don't really sit around my job making songs on GarageBand or whatever it's called, but I'm laying out schematics with AutoCad, so a Mac is completely and utterly useless to me. I wouldn't want one if it was free, because it would just clutter up my limited desk space."I'm not really sure what you are trying to argue, but let me clear up a couple of items here. First, GarageBand is a consumer program that comes free with a Mac. I don't think anyone uses it professionally, there are much better programs available for that. Second, there is no reason you can't do your schematics on a Mac (i.e. TurboCAD).
starmanjonesMar 29, 2006
>Really? The iMacs we have in my multimedia class overheat all the time. Come on, it's only>5th period, and you're overheating again? (They are shut down for the night and turned on>1st period, btw). Then again, they can't ever seem to handle running iMovie and Safari at>the same time. Oh no!!! Two apps, omg. And this is the newest PowerMac, btw. Doesn't>matter that I can run bunches of apps (including graphics and movie-editing programs) on>my underpowered PC. Of course, the mac is the ultimate multimedia machine.i'm sorry but i don't believe a word of this. i have never seen a mac overheat and i have been in charge of hundreds. PCs too. everyday i thanked apple that they don't crash and burn like the PCs. i routinely run upwards of 20 apps... like photoshop... with firefox, safari and shiira running. the truth is that i rarely quit an app and i use them all day everyday. its on until i reboot some week or another. ususally on a system update.