Posted on 05/26/2009 11:04:51 AM PDT by Gomez
The University of Virgina collects and compiles information about students' computer use. The information has been collected over the past decade by student employees of ITC, known as Student Consultants (SCs) and formerly, Computing Advisors (CAs), a group of first-year students hired to advise and assist their peers with computing. The data is based on SC and CA surveys of first-year residence halls each fall.
ugh....I’m sorry to hear it.
ugh,,,, Why????
Macs Just Work! period........................
Insofar as the incoming freshmen are primarily artists and musicians, not engineers and scientists, I’m not surprised.
Well, as a computer engineer who has been involved building and running some of world’s largest and fastest supercomputers, I’d have to say I love my Mac.
Not at all. Fact is my Mac is faster at the important stuff (like Mathematica) than any of my fellow engineers and researchers. When they want stuff cranked, they come to me and my Mac.
It’s the end of the world as we know it...
You and a bunch of other hardware guys I know. I bought my first Mac precisely because when I was working with Wintel systems I rapidly learned to hate them. Nothing has changed in the 20 years since. Just that my Mac still beats hell out of every Wintel system out there
For a few years they sucked bad and any decently built PC whomped them. But now that they’re using Xeons they’re back to being a good computer.
coming from a true end-user....don’t worry I like mac too, just not for the “wrong” reasons.
What makes you think the article indicates Mac use “for the wrong reasons”?
Because it shows how well indoctrinated with collectivism they are... or something like it. [/sarc]
;)
Seems like 62.5% know which end is up.
Uh, I've made Macs crash.
Computer are made by thousands of hardware and software folks. They are increasingly complex. It seems that they all have issues. Back in the day we did make computer systems that didn't crash, but they were embedded systems programmed by a couple of people, relatively simple and well tested. Almost deterministic systems.
Macs are overpriced and a closed architecture.
>Just that my Mac still beats hell out of every Wintel system out there
But now it’s MacIntel now that they’ve gone to the Intel architecture abandoning the Motorola.
Macs are for kids.
Oh, that’s original. Usually you just call us homosexuals and leave it at that.
Nope. Got my MacBook Pro a couple of years ago and I’m through with Windows.
>Oh, that’s original. Usually you just call us homosexuals and leave it at that.
Oh, come now... if any OS is homosexual it’s Unix/Linux; mostly because they’ll let you do ANYTHING to any of their [numerous] orifices, things that would make sane people shudder. {Case in point: Shell-scripts.}
;)
Who wants to buy a computer with a pre-broken OS (i.e. Vista) installed? Aside from XP SP3, there are no versions of Windows I would today use for any purpose, given the contemporary alternatives available (some of them free, like Ubuntu and other Linux distributions). If Microsoft does not abandon lunacy like ever-expanding DRM “protections” and Driver signing requirements, it will be competing with boutique Linux distros for 8th place in market share by 2020.
After growing up on MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 through to XP, I went mostly to Mac for a period, and now settled on Ubuntu at the office, and Ubuntu/XP dual-boot at home (plus a Macbook that my wife mostly uses). If Wine (a program used to run Windows programs on Linux - I am able to run some Windows architectural software, many games, mathematics software, specialized software for lab equipment, etc) was less flaky, I’d jettison XP altogether. There is a version of Wine for Mac as well, although it is far less robust than the Linux version.
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