I have to chime in here. I don't speak as a multi-computer tech expert but only as a single photoshop and internet user. About two years ago I was forced to get a new machine because my Sony Vaio pc laptop began loading up (on its own!) with so much garbage that it took forever to boot up and everything was as slow as molasses. A visit to a repair shop did nothing. I simply dumped it, and agreed to accede to my wife's claims of Mac's overall superiority. After a year and a half of macbook laptop use, I see I need a bigger machine for a heavier digital photo work stream and will get a mac desktop.
I don't know what happens in classroom use, but I've never needed to have my machine looked at. And the interaction between my mac and me is smooth, logical, and pleasant. I admit I don't look for specialized capabilities in my machine, other than what came in the box and which seemed to me to cover what I though I wanted to do. So if the question is to advise on such use, then mac is the way to go. Further, there are far, far fewer (if indeed any at all) hackers for the smaller base of macs compared to pcs.
-yoram gelman
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If I had to do the work I do on a pc instead of a mac I'd find a different job
> that didn't involve computers.
>
> They really ARE that much better.
>
> Lea
>
> On Jan 11, 2010, at 9:10 AM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
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> >
> > On Mon, January 11, 2010 00:48, karl shah-jenner wrote:
> >
> >> I run a school with a 40-computer inventory of Chinese-made Macs...
> >> iMacs, Macbooks etc. We have 25 iMacs in the lab and there are always at
> >> least 4 in the shop getting stuff fixed. Drives that die... chips that
> >> overheat, displays that pop up green or don't come up at all, filing
> >> systems that get corrupted... It's a nightmare! I have never had so much
> >> student work lost.
> >> [snip]
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