Windows 10 has pushed many to Apple.
Windows 10 reminded me a lot of iOS in how it limits the user's independence.
Windows 10 has pushed many to Apple.
In this case, Apple managed to word the survey in such a way, as to elicit the answers they wanted to hear.
My bad. I'm bad with names too, as I mentioned earlier.Apple didn't conduct this survey.
That's based on my own son's behavior regarding a problematic Apple mini. The thing blew its HDD early in its career, He lost his receipts for the device and extended warranty. I gave him a windows desktop. He went right back out and bought another Mini, first chance he got.My point being asking students which brand of device they would prefer, is tantamount to asking them, "which brand do you think is hipper"?
If any demographic is status conscious, it's college students, and I would venture a guess that their answers were largely based on how much, "street cred" they would gain by having an Apple device, as opposed to other brands....[ ].....
Of course, the people who are not paying for it want the branded expensive option, you young sir will manage with this cheap as5ed Acer until you buy your own stuff.
is where I stopped reading. This is a joke.According to Apple device management...
People , awake! Macs and PCs are the same!
ABSOLUTELY WRONG.
Do some research before posting random ****.
Right, and I just conducted a one person study that evanescence is in fact the best band in the word. According to you, can't argue with facts. Fact is, who they asked and the methodology is the most important part. Are their questions inviting bias? Are they giving participants bias by revealing certain details? Is it a blind study or a double blind study? Given the company in question did have a vested interest, if it wasn't a double blind then the methodology is tainted and the results worthless. You can make a survey like this say anything you want by manipulating those variables.
So no, data collected incorrectly is garbage and most certainly not fact.
No need to be rude. And there's no need to lecture me on research methods, I'm well versed in them myself and I'm well aware that I was giving a subjective observation.
I'll ask you one question though - have you been to a university lecture lately and looked at what computers people are using? No really, have you though? Because if you did, you'd soon see that these figures are not ridiculous at all.
Ignore this study for a moment, and just look around you. Look at the laptops students are using. That's literally all you need to do. All I'm saying is that based on what I observe (at the university where I work), it's quite likely that their findings are accurate. There may be plenty to criticize about the survey itself, but I do still think they obtained data that is reflective of what students are using today.
Your approach seems to be this: "unless the research method meets ALL of my requirements I can disregard the study entirely", when in actual fact there is some truth here. By all means feel free to conduct a study of your own if you dispute the findings, I'd be genuinely pleased if someone found that more students were using Windows machines than Mac.
I’d rather have a MacBook than a windows machine because I prefer the OS and they offer the most colour accurate screens, especially for the money. For photographers they are second to none. The quality of Apple devices is outstanding, I don’t understand how people can say they are badly made. I’d you love tech then you’ll love a Apple product.
You are well versed in research methods? No, clearly not. You don't even realize that you are boosting a very misleading survey based on subjective opinion by your own admittance.
The only thing this tells me is that you are willing to completely commit to anything that confirms even a single observation you have made, even if that observation doesn't represent the whole.
FYI those requirements aren't ones I had laid down, they are ones that are to be followed during any survey if the results are to be accurate. Or are you fine with getting inaccurate data as well so long as it agrees with your prejudices?
Didn't even answer my question, so I guess we're done here. You sound like an extraordinarily rude person. Conduct your own research if that will make you happy.
I think I know my use case scenario better than you do! And unfortunate when I’m on a trip out to somewhere like Indonesia I don’t have the baggage allowance nor the space to carry an external screen.Not really, you will mostly use external screens that of NEC, DELL or LG. Again no one is saying they are badly made but have their own issues like heat. They are great laptops, but if you don't need to be on the move a lot and have an office, it makes 0 sense to get a Mac unless you like to eco system/OS, which is just matter of preference.
I think I know my use case scenario better than you do! And unfortunate when I’m on a trip out to somewhere like Indonesia I don’t have the baggage allowance nor the space to carry an external screen.
In fact in over 10 years of wildlife photography I think I’ve only ever seen one person on of these trips using something that isn’t a Mac. You have to pay so much more for a windows machine to get a colour accurate screen and macs software is much better.
If you took up photography you would understand.
I disagree, there are several scenarios where Mac is better than windows and vice versa.If you are talking portability, sure, it just comes down to preference as BOTH top Apple and top Windows OEM products are pretty on-par with each other and comes down to performance/size of laptops. Smaller, thinner will suffer performance and throttling while the bigger portables will be heavier and less power efficient. Nothing new here.
The catalogue production and retouching industry usually uses third-party monitors and not native iMac/Macbook monitors at professional level. These are monitors that I listed and then some. While the picture quality of an Apple device is great, it is not the peak and certainly there are many additional requirements from a monitor which Apple does not have.
I am not saying you cannot use an Apple device. Sure you can use a Macbook/iMac but it certainly isn't requirement and definitely you are no better of either way (unless workflow requires something extra).
Where GPU/CPU is a valuable asset to your production workflow, you will simply not get that with Apple, it's just the way it is. At least not in a cost efficient manner (Blackmagic eGPU).
Your last point is moot. You are comparing laptops/all in ones to desktop PCs. I can easily get high quality laptops to compete against the Macbook.
A £4,000 Windows based machine is going to mop floor with the £4,000 kitted out Macbook or an iMac. But, again it depends on your usecase and how much of brand loyalty you have.
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Mac Software runs better? Care to elaborate. What's Mac Software, Logic/FCPX?
This is a gamer website so a lot of people get wrapped up in specs as it's pretty easy to bump up your CPU, GPU, and memory specs and see the numerical improvement in game FPS. In that scenario, the specs are a good proxy for how valuable the tool is for the job.
As you point out those specs are mostly useless from a photography perspective. That screen is actually most important and all other "valuable" specs are a distant second place.