Why a mac is better than a PC
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- silentseven
I have a client (a school that wants to buy 1000 mac's) but the school wants 1000 PC's and they want a poster showing why they should buy macs"s ...
Any thoughts....
- jimeeboy510
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- jimeeboy510
http://www.apple.com/switch/whys…
how do you make a link live? a href?
- jimeeboy510
ok, nevermind. thurr ya go. but its hard to believe. i've had macs crash on me before. pc's work for me as well. ipods are cool as hell, but pc industry mp3 players are comming out with new ones every month, with more features (i find ipods a bit restrictive). it is user friendly, but so is PC. if you want stability, use unix for school. It should be per dept if you ask me. Go figa.
- lowimpakt0
whats the justification for educating children on a platform that undoubtedly the majority of them wont use when they enter employment? Should the purchasing budget be increased at the expense of other educational tools simply to have a 'nice-looking' piece of equipment? If they go for pc's, which will be far cheaper to match the necessary spec, could some budget not be set aside for future expandability instead of blowing it all on soon to be redundant machines? etc.
- silentseven0
Some say PCs are cheaper but I say "no way." Don't forget that you have to add stuff like a better sound or video card, plus a SCSI and/or Ethernet card, to obtain parity with off-the-shelf Macs. And I would venture that Mac people keep their Macs longer than PC people keep their PCs.
- fate0
lowimpakt makes some excellent points. You also have to look at upgrades for life prolongment, which aren't going to happen, fiscally, with a Mac.
- yarsrevenge0
Well... I hope these are not Interactive students... MACs are horrible when using apps like photoshop and flash compared to a PC. I can name at least ten reasons why PCs are much more efficient. I work in a MAC environment.... and every mac head there will confess, macs just wont compare to the pc. Now, if these are video production students, then its another story.
- fifty500
I'd like to tell ya to get the Macs for the students, because back in the day when I was in school, all we used were macs. Using PCs at school afterwards was a bit of a challenge because at least one person in the class would have a computer crash on them and people would have to pair up. Who cares if the "World Standard" is PC? You can run virtually the same software on a Mac that you can on a PC, except (for now) AutoCAD. Visit that Apple link in the 2nd reply post to see why Macs are better educational tools.
- bomy_dick0
yeah.. u should put a poster up with :
'We do not intend to play any games in here, give us some Macintosh computers please'
- lowimpakt0
maybe it would it would be better to know what type of school it is cos from where I stand school = kids+young teenagers.
It should be a pragmatic decision on cost, accessibility and expandability - not what the marketing team of Mac tell you. Vague notions of system instability isnt a decision benchmark because it is always different between machines and how users set them up.
- bomy_dick0
imacs come with 256 mb of ram.. is that a joke ?
any low budget pc now is fully equiped with ethernet, usb, firewire, 512 mb of ram.. etc etc...
that sotry about macs is 6 years old..
pc's today are becoming nice looking, very usable, top performance as well and of course 40 % cheaper..
- ribit0
Wasnt the original point of this post to ask for "ideas on a poster design", not which computer the school should buy?
Theres a lot of stuff about functionality and total cost of ownership that you could list (see the Apple site).
The argument that they should learn on the current 'most popular' platform also depends on the age of the students. The platform they learn on now might be obsolete by the time they graduate from college? Who here learnt to use Windows 98 or XP in school? (When I was in high school we were using a remote Digital PDP11 through a 300baud modem..really relevant now.)
- laurus0
They should get macs. It will prepare them for life. In a Turkish prison.
- tfs__mag0
students are less likely to inadvertently infect the school network with one of a bilion or so viruses on a mac. PS runs the same on macs and PCs of like speeds/builds. with an education discount macs are pretty inexpensive.
- auricom0
because......it just is.
my neighboor has a dell, we were jammin on some Halo and some other games, but it took him 20 minutes to start any game up because of his firewall. PC's have to be freakin locked down like a mofo in order to use them, do you think teachers want to go through that headache during every class. hell class will be over before they properly get a chance to use anything. then what does the kid learn. the county i live in, all the students have iBooks and all the parents love them.
- benfal990
fifty50, today with Windows XP, pc's doesn't crash more than a Mac.... I can't remember the last time i've crashed with my PC's at home and at work.
And for the cost, no one can tell that a PC is the same price than a Mac! No way! PC's are way much cheaper. And just for the upgrade option you should go PC.
And yeah, people having Mac keep them much longer than people having PC's.... its true, but you know why .... its because buying a new mac is too expansive so they use their Mac until they can't work on it.
I change my PC every 2 years and a half for the 1/4 of the price of a new Mac.
But, I like Mac too, dont get me wrong. Everything is looking good on a Mac and it work well. Exept FLash MX2004 ... :P
- benfal990
auricom... you're not serious uh!?
Come on dude.
maybe you'Re neighboor need to set his stuff differently.... If youre neighboor take 10min to boot up his PC and/or a game does'nt mean EVERY pc's in the world equiped with a firewall take 10min to do so.
My pc take almost 1minutes 20sec to restart and boot up. And my firewall doesnt slow anything on my pc.
Duh!
- lowimpakt0
"the county i live in, all the students have iBooks and all the parents love them. "
Do you honestly think thats the reality for all schools? not every school is full of rich kids....
- tfs__mag0
umm i think he meant the school provided the laptops to the students at school (not for them to keep). since he's probably talking about public school, i'd wager 99% of the students aren't rich...
- silentseven0
The poster is for a middle school 7th & 8th graders, yes they have those around here still. I think that the money is not an issue since they are educators and want to prepare the kids for higher education, Now here is the hard part and where this poster actually stems from the High school that the kids will go to has both Mac (G4's and a couple dual 450's) and PC (dell). So they dont know whether to get MAc or PC but can only get one, its a pain in the ass, but one of the people on the board is a close friend of mine.
I think MAC just because of Unix base and the inability to infect the intranet of the school with a Houston 650 virus or something of the sorts. I was not asking for a brawl just some ideas, I have both Mac and PC and share equal love (sometimes)