It depends on what you're going into as your major. Two friends of
mine are in school now. One started in journalism then switched to
English. Her school told her specifically if going into journalism
Mac was prefered. A lot of writers use Mac, don't specifically know
why, posibily because of stability of saving data. But not sure.
If in the world of education, the Mac still holds it's own as well,
although schools have been going more into a windows direction over
the past few years, some still use Mac as well.
In the business world itself, it's a harder sell. Business is
dominated by Windows, probably because over the years IBM clones have
been cheaper machines. And readily available. But the business
world is starting to get a little more flusterated with the Windows
situation. Security is a major factor, and again stability of platform.
Apple has been gaining slowly over the past couple or three years,
but Mac hasn't quite caught fire in the business world yet. Business
tends to lag a little bit, especially "big business." Institutions
are tipically slow to change, whether business or Government agency.
The bigger, often the slower. Small business on the other hand is a
different matter.
When the small businesses were going over to windows, because it
worked ok at home for them, a good part of "big business" was still
running dos.
Does the school you're going to have any Macs in it's computer labs?
If so you might be able to sell it that way, because the worse
they'll be out is $130 verses well, you know the rest. And if they
are running Tiger already, well, you have an aditional machine to
use. Talk to the school advisor you have, check where the writers
and journalism students have their lab. Or communications devision
depending on how the school organizes it's groupings or Colleges.
On Dec 6, 2005, at 7:30 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
Hi guys
my department of rehab counsilr, from whom I hope to get my mac for
college, said the following.
"I am going to give you a hard time, though, if you want to get a
Mac. It does not have the operating system that is compatible with
the majority of the
business world applications."
Could anyone offer me some ammo for this debate? Thanks
Justin Harford
Espiring university student
