Does your educational place use PC or Mac for Media?

[FuzzyYellow]

both. most are windows, be we also have a few Macs.

[Olivertheguy]

Dont even get me started on this, dont even go there. No.

[spyder]

there is a process to secure any equipment, materials or supplies for educational

institutions. most use a bidding application to supply one or all locations within a

district and that the apple platform (ecosystem) is uniform and in most cases can

be discounted for large purchases. the PC platform is too proliferated with options,

availability and configurations (hardware/software) support that is too vast for a

department to worry about failures and inconsistencies. not saying apple is more/less

consistent, but more uniformed and easier to get a "deal" over the PC (too many

variables, with no internal tech support to point the buyers in a direction of no worries).

That actually makes darn sense now, if the schools were to buy custom built then support will be crazy to deal with thats why they go down the OEM route especially if the company is willing to offer discount on software which is good for the school. 

[iHardware Shelden]

Chromebooks... I'm using one as we speak

In our programming lab we have Dell Optiplex 32xx series with i5 4460s and some forum of quadros. As for the rest of the school Dell optiplex 745s with Pentium Ds, going to upgrade to q6600s apparently soon so that's nice.

[Jack.EXE]

My school uses Surface Pro 3s, though I personally use a dell 2 in 1 (not the dell in my sig, that's my personal laptop) with a pentium quad core.

 

Works pretty well.

[othertomperson]

You could run these apps on PC's with decent specs unless they get some huge bulk discount on the iMacs, I still see no reason why we should use one.

 

Have you ever seen a PC "with decent specs" in a school that wasn't a Mac? I work in a school, every PC I've ever seen has been an i3 with no discrete GPU. It stands to reason that they do get a better discount on decently specced Macs than they would on a bunch of i7s with discete graphics from Dell.

[ZacDaMan72]

I like my school, our editing rigs have i7 4770's and GTX 770's we have 2 21.5" iMacs though.

[SirBobson]

My school has iMacs and some macbook pros for media and music (we occasionally use them for garageband), while for pretty much everything else they have small hp computers mounted on the back of monitors.

[spyder]

Have you ever seen a PC "with decent specs" in a school that wasn't a Mac? I work in a school, every PC I've ever seen has been an i3 with no discrete GPU. It stands to reason that they do get a better discount on decently specced Macs than they would on a bunch of i7s with discete graphics from Dell.

I wish we had custom rigs though, I just cant even adapt myself to using OSX at all for some reason, I am not a big fan of the bog standard mice they supply as well as the small tiny keyboard too. 

[DarkBlade2117]

We have small for, factor Dell Optiplex. Some have i7-2600s and some have i7-4790s. The i7-4790 one has 8GBs of ram, TB HDD.

Oh and Macs.

[TetraSky]

This was years ago, but my primary/elementary school used some old apple macintosh(probably the 1990 model)and in my final year they upgraded to the original iMac(1998 model). Lets just say they were quite a bit behind the times already... considering it was 2002 by then.

 

While my secondary/high school used Windows PC, running Windows XP, so they were a bit more up to date.

[TheConverter]

Good look finding Apple products in European schools, lol.

 

We aren't that dumb

[Guest]

Good look finding Apple products in European schools, lol.

 

We aren't that dumb

 

My college use Macs, so we must be dumb. 

[Guest Johnny5g]

we need macs!

[othertomperson]

I wish we had custom rigs though, I just cant even adapt myself to using OSX at all for some reason, I am not a big fan of the bog standard mice they supply as well as the small tiny keyboard too. 

 

I hear those complaints from people who use OSX as their main PC. It just comes with the territory of using something else. Get used to it, it's good to learn new things.

[Guest Johnny5g]

My college use Macs, so we must be dumb. 

no you aren't they are best for education and stuff like that.

[Pony080905]

PCs with i5 4670S's and 16GB of ram

[flibberdipper]

My school uses iMacs from 2009 with a Core 2 Duo and some 9000M class GPU from Nvidia.

[Big_Chief]

For media entailed subjects, I don't understand why educational institutions use an iMac over a PC? 

 

Like one of the subjects I started involves using an iMac (21.5) for use with programs such as Photoshop CS6, Adobe dreamweaver as well as After Effects. 

 

You could run these apps on PC's with decent specs unless they get some huge bulk discount on the iMacs, I still see no reason why we should use one.

 

I prefer the PC, since I am so familiar with it, used the iMac today, and I was just baffled with all the keyboard different shortcuts there are, it just felt weird to use one. 

I just started college not long ago and found out we have to use iMacs to create a log book and I was like, "How the hell do you use this?" I've never used a Mac in my life before

[spyder]

I just started college not long ago and found out we have to use iMacs to create a log book and I was like, "How the hell do you use this?" I've never used a Mac in my life before

Exactly the same response I showed when I had to use the iMac

[Heesleemer]

I go to Bu and for engineering we get xeon based computers and media get's both Pc and Mac depending on their type of work

 

Ew, BU (#BC)

 

But same deal, both Mac and PC.. Pretty much everyone uses Apple laptops at BC 

[SparkySamZa]

Ew, BU (#BC)

 

But same deal, both Mac and PC.. Pretty much everyone uses Apple laptops at BC 

You do know i'm talking about Bournemouth University in england Not one of the american ones :3 

[watts300]

I just started college not long ago and found out we have to use iMacs to create a log book and I was like, "How the hell do you use this?" I've never used a Mac in my life before

My 61 year old dad bought a Mac mini almost two years ago (on my suggestion ) and he had never touched one prior. He's doing just fine.

If he can do it, you can, too.

[minibois]

mostly PC for me, since I did the game dev study..

but in the designing class rooms they had a ton Macs

[Sauron]

Windows workstations. I'm at the engineering faculty though so no photographic work. Mostly cad and it