Does your educational place use PC or Mac for Media?

[Heesleemer]

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

Ew, not America  

[Cazzer505]

macs for design/art purposes and shitty a8 apu pc's that thermal throttle due to no airflow/small form factor for general use

[jakeaffleck12]

i have a laptop my mom uses a windows computer and she says that it is very fast and more expensive than hers at my school my parents say that i will not get a new computer intil i get good grades my school uses windows and macs and they use macs more than windows but they still use btoh

 

my school uses mac

[SPAS-ID]

my School use Windows XP on a very old AIO PC that cant handle 3 Tabs Mozzila ( even tho they repaint the whole school every year )

[Thorium19]

My old school used iMacs for the art, design and music departments, however the rest of the school used some lenovo thinkcentre all in ones.

[Calavera]

Our school used to use Mac only... besides tin-clients Windows shit.

Now they've seen the light and we've got like 30 proper editing PC's. No videocard but a decent pc still.

[Big_Chief]

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.

Thanks for the encouragement, bud

[cragger89]

We have 2 Mac suites and about a million PC suites at work.

[SparkySamZa]

Ew, not America

wow #gchq

English university's = best in world

[spyder]

We have 2 Mac suites and about a million PC suites at work.

The work place I had to do some IT sorting out for had a bunch of windows 8 notebooks and macbook airs. 

[ice856]

We use pc for programming and imac for design major. A lot of people say that mac is the best for design. Is it true?? I mean if you spend the same amount of money for pc you can get wayyy better than an imac(may be not that much, but still)

[spyder]

We use pc for programming and imac for design major. A lot of people say that mac is the best for design. Is it true?? I mean if you spend the same amount of money for pc you can get wayyy better than an imac(may be not that much, but still)

It makes sense only if the end user was buying a custom PC for them self but when you have atleast 20 students per class then building rigs isn't the way to go if you want support from manufacturers when something goes wrong. 

[Farmall200]

My HS uses windows machines except for the one 27 iMac left over from the old tech teacher. That one is usually used for Maya, since it has the biggest and highest resolution screen.

[dcb-z]

My school is... a mixed bag.

 

The compsci class uses Macs, last I recall. The digital communications class right next to it uses Windows. Our engineering/PLTW class uses Windows all-in-one desktops for our autoCAD software, and the library and general computer lab both use terrible all-in-one desktops. Math classes are stuck on 13" laptops, and English and history classes sometimes use Chromebooks. Our E.A.S.T. lab uses mostly Windows desktops, but we have two Macs from around 2008 that we use for video editing because somehow we lost all of our software install disks and product keys for our Windows computers (I think it happened last year when we had a terrible facilitator who threw everything away at the beginning of the year and screwed us all over later in the year).

[variglo]

http://strawpoll.me/5419670

makes it a lot easier

[spyder]

My school is... a mixed bag.

 

The compsci class uses Macs, last I recall. The digital communications class right next to it uses Windows. Our engineering/PLTW class uses Windows all-in-one desktops for our autoCAD software, and the library and general computer lab both use terrible all-in-one desktops. Math classes are stuck on 13" laptops, and English and history classes sometimes use Chromebooks. Our E.A.S.T. lab uses mostly Windows desktops, but we have two Macs from around 2008 that we use for video editing because somehow we lost all of our software install disks and product keys for our Windows computers (I think it happened last year when we had a terrible facilitator who threw everything away at the beginning of the year and screwed us all over later in the year).

Well my college is undergoing refurbishing anyways, so I am hopeful we can see new IT machines perhaps? The Mac's are currently out of commission now because one of the work men accidentally cut off the rj45 wire going into the rooms with the macs therefore you cant log in to the machines, neither save work since its all networked or access programs. 

[thehardwarehacker]

the last 1 or 2 years of my high school, we had a computer typing class/ year book work place, which consisted of 5, maybe 6, dell pentium 4 set tops (donated hand me downs), and because of the 'loose rules' of said class, plus it couldn't really be helped, i was able to bring an old G4 powerbook to use in class.

[dcb-z]

Well my college is undergoing refurbishing anyways, so I am hopeful we can see new IT machines perhaps? The Mac's are currently out of commission now because one of the work men accidentally cut off the rj45 wire going into the rooms with the macs therefore you cant log in to the machines, neither save work since its all networked or access programs. 

My school is working on getting rid of networked drives, even though the majority of students are used to them and have all their data on said drives. We're supposedly becoming a Google/Virtual school and all of the students hate it more than you can imagine. I guess I can't really blame them, the majority of them have never done computer schoolwork before (I was homeschooled mostly through the computer for about 4 years so I'm used to it) and most of them don't have much computer use outside of school or their smartphones, but it gets annoying when you can't get any work done because the students just go "huuuuuuuuuuhhh misssss i can't STAND THIS they needta get us OFF dese coputers" all class period.

[Zambonie]

Before 2009, my school used Dell Optiplex desktops, but ALL of the laptops were iBook G4's, running OSX 10.4 Tiger, but in 2009 we got rid of all of them and got some crappy used Dell Laptops.

 

Fast forward to last year, my school bought brand new, decent Lenovo's for one of its labs, which has Pentium G3258's with Intel HD 4600 in them I belive. And its messed up because they downgraded them from 8.1 to XP and just at the end of last year they upgraded them back up to 7 so we can do our state test on it...

[dcb-z]

Before 2009, my school used Dell Optiplex desktops, but ALL of the laptops were iBook G4's, running OSX 10.4 Tiger, but in 2009 we got rid of all of them and got some crappy used Dell Laptops.

 

Fast forward to last year, my school bought brand new, decent Lenovo's for one of its labs, which has Pentium G3258's with Intel HD 4600 in them I belive. And its messed up because they downgraded them from 8.1 to XP and just at the end of last year they upgraded them back up to 7 so we can do our state test on it...

We used to have Optiplex computers.

 

My school also downgraded the OS on all of the new computers. They all came with Win8, but now they run Win7.

[Jedicake]

I actually attend college and also work as a custodian there as well. Every single room uses PC's, except for the graphic design room, loads of mac's in there.

[starwarsguy99]

We used to use really old vista machines that were upgraded to Windows 7.

Those were replaced last year with a ton of Thinkpad Laptops.

From Grade 9 on wards we have to have our own laptops which are supposed to only use windows (for compatibility).

For some reason there are stupid people who buy MacBooks. Currently in my class of 15 people 8 people use MacBooks even though they were not supposed to,

and then they complain they have to spend extra money on parallels. 

Serves them right

[Superdoge]

we have to bring our own laptops to school for programs like Solidworks and AutoCAD

they recommend everybody to use windows tough.

Praise lord chinchin

[IceWolfPuppies]

Apple has made a pretty agressive push into educational facilities over the last 10 (or so) years.

Usually the schools get a pretty nice discount on the computers and the software. And in the end, it will pay off for Apple.

If people get used ot using Apple from their childhood, they will likely keep using Apple. 

 

My school (the Department of Law at the University of Copenhagen), most people, including the teachers, will bring their own computer.

The few computer, that the department has, are PCs.

Are you from Denmark.

[iamdarkyoshi]

my old school? Quick answer: Yes. They used macs with windows on them.