Houston U. Students find PCs easier to use...
Yep. The dudes and dudettes of Houston State University find PCs easier to use.
Also, I love the line about due to low demand, fewer students choose to sign up for Mac accounts.
Is this a campus of geniuuses?
Also, I love the line about due to low demand, fewer students choose to sign up for Mac accounts.
Is this a campus of geniuuses?
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In order to access the Apple Macintosh computers on the SHSU campus, students must acquire a "Mac Account" through Computer Services.
A "Mac Account"? So, in other words, the IT department is too stupid to set up a proper cross-platform network? LDAP? OpenDirectory? ActiveDirectory? Hello?
The fact remains that most students have no use for the flashy visuals and complicated graphics programs that Apple's Macintoshes are so famous for carrying. They may be more appealing to the eye, but Macintosh computers have yet to produce any real educational or basic functional value for the majority of college students.
oh! those flashy visuals make my computer SO hard to use! the dock becomes larger when my mouse pointer goes nearby the icons! TEH HORROR!
Based on the number of Macs versus the number of PCs on campus, students seem to experience much more difficulty in operating the Apple system as opposed to other more standard systems.
"We definitely receive at least two to three calls a day for help with the Macs," Kaleb Cuevas, sophomore psychology major and Computer Services employee, said. "It's usually because of something like the operating system messing up. But it's often because of user error too."
"because of something like the operating system messing up." nice, we're all professionals here.
According to Cuevas, PCs could be described as more business based than the Mac, with an emphasis on typing-based programs such as Word. With the majority of college students' assignments focusing on word-based projects and papers, the PC logically provides a much better means of producing their work.
yeah, because, you know, there is no Word for mac so basically if you have a mac and you want to write a paper, you're screwed.
i won't bother to read the rest of it. sorry for the grouchiness.
That's funny. Sacramento State University is slowly replacing Dells with all iMacs. College students don't like Macs my ass...
The decline of America is clear here, Im sure most of these fools voted for Bush twice.
ROTFL!
If I were the head of marketing at Apple I would develope a demo days program that would target universities around the country. People could come and try the different products. I would have an expert around to show users the capabilities of Macs. I would demo Parallels and boot camp. Sort of like a traveling Apple store. There could be a drawing for a free iPods to help ensure a good turn out.
The issue at HSU probably stems from a lack of knowledge about macs.
If I were the head of marketing at Apple I would develope a demo days program that would target universities around the country. People could come and try the different products. I would have an expert around to show users the capabilities of Macs. I would demo Parallels and boot camp. Sort of like a traveling Apple store. There could be a drawing for a free iPods to help ensure a good turn out.
You are aware that Apple does that reguarly?
Last two times they did it at my university they gave out free iPods.
You are aware that Apple does that reguarly?
Last two times they did it at my university they gave out free iPods.
Nope, shit I'm just out of touch. I better crawl back into my cave, winter is approaching.
Like it or not, this is the same attitude across IT departments everywhere. Can you blame them? The Mac benefit is not apparent to those who are looking for the most cost-effective way in establishing a workstation/server setup and the easiest way to support them. Yes, there is still stigma lingering and stereotypes from the past, as this article proves. But Windows prevails not because of any superiority over the Mac platform. It prevails because it works, it's familiar, and it's cheap.
Unless Microsoft seriously shoots itself in the foot (which it just might be doing with Vista), or Apple more aggressively pursues enterprise (which it seriously needs to do... Xserve/OS X Server isn't just going to sell itself to the masses), things will stay like this for a while. Hopefully more and more college students will continue to buy Macs and the "halo-effect" grows, and things might change.
Like it or not, this is the same attitude across IT departments everywhere. Can you blame them?
Yes, you can.