I'm scared of College

The truth is that I'm really scared of college, mainly due to this picture:



Somehow Steve created a "cool" thing with technology and now everyone that doesn't have something from Apple will be considered an outcast. You will not mate!

Now, I consider Apple products a wonderful experience for multimedia and web surfing purposes, but "everyone" seems to agree that Apple products give you immediate artistic skills. What did Mr. Jobs do to kick out Windows from being creative?

Sadly, I'm typing this message on Safari Windows version.

And what are they doing with their Apples? What class is this anyway? Don't believe the hype dude, do your own thing and feel good about it.

I guess Steve Ballmer doesn't like such a college hall either.. :P

They're probably all looking at porn.... sorry - iPorn. :/

Why has that person in the middle brought a hula hoop?

It's the workflow on OS X and its applications that attracts 'creative' people. It simply is more straight forward, especially for non-technical users. Drag & Drop Anything, Anywhere (TM)(R)(C).

Coming from Windows, you're used to taking detours for everything and having to click through dozens of very arcance menus and options dialogs that use a mystical language that most people don't even understand. You have too many choices on Windows.

On the Mac, I drag an image from Safari straight onto my Photoshop icon in the dock. No right-click and "Save Image as.." and no launching Photoshop and "File/Open..." and remembering where I put it. That philosophy goes straight through the entire system.

Another killer: There -are- many applications for creative workers that only exist for Mac OS X. For example, I write fiction, and crappy word processors like Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org Writer just don't cut it for me and my needs. Scrivener, StoryMill or Montage do, and they don't have Windows counterparts.

When you're into professional video editing, you will quickly find out that Apple's Final Cut Studio has become the de facto standard in that industry. (Avid no longer is it, and Adobe Premiere is also not it.)

As the last item for today's collection: Designers, for example, are usually people with a more sophisticated taste, and naturally they prefer beautiful things over cheaper tools that just get the job done. In the PC sector, probably only Sony with their Vaio series has a chance of competing against Apple design in that playground. But Windows will always look like a cheap boulevard newspaper compared to the (completely ad- and bubble box-free) look and feel of OS X.

Maybe it is also valid to say that none of this has anything to do with technology, but with how the technology attracts the user and how compatible it is with his mindset and attitude.

You might still pay more for an Apple system, but Apple's target audience knows why the pay that premium.

I've always found Windows to be very intuitive for day to day tasks.

You know you can drag an image out of IE into Photoshop on a PC, right?

Adobe Premiere never was 'it'. Sony Vegas owns all.

Well I don't even know where to start on that one. Buying a mac doesn't magically make you more creative. Talent and creativity is inside you. Its got little to do with your choice of tools.

Because they're idiots?

most people on my old course didn't know what a computer was.....and it was called 'computer animation'

Designers, for example, are usually people with a more sophisticated taste, and naturally they prefer beautiful things over cheaper tools that just get the job done.

I'm a so-called creative person. My WinPC is the cheapest I could find with the best price/feature ratio. I've requested a classic/traditional casing so I don't have to dig through fragile layers of rounded plastic to install a new harddisk, and my PC is located in a reasonably sound-proof facility anyway. So, no shiny fancy marketing gibberish for me, just the best performance/price. So far, the computer hasn't exactly influenced my creativity. Why? Because it's completely irrelevant!

Don't I have taste? Of course I have taste, but I'm not one to require my friggin' computer to be tasteful! It's a machine, a dead piece o' electronics obeying my commands. I mean, you don't require your toiletpaper to have interesting pictures and ornaments on it, no? :P It should just work, for the best price.

Not meaning to be rude but are you sure you're mature enough to be going to college? Age and grades are sometimes not enough.

Just get a little apple sticker and put it on your laptop. Noone will notice and when sorry *if* they do, it will become a trend!

or get an Asus, they're made in the same factory by the same Taiwanese guy :)

Do you see, in the bottom of the picture, the word 'humor'? Guess what, not everyone in college uses macs, and you will not be an outcast for not using one.

All it comes down too is fuddy duddy liberal old coots that become professors being addle brained and technicaly challenged.

This whole mac business in art college at least, began when the amiga wasn't taken seriously, and the PC was mostly VGA only. The Mac had quark express, pagemaker and Photoshop. The PC didn't. From that day on all art and design students have been told that all computer graphics are made on the Mac.

The lectures I went to for history of art, The mac was used to render all the movie effects from pixar to the present day. This was when the mac didn't have 3D accelerated graphics, and certainly not professional 3D cards like the early quadros and older cards.

Basicly everyone was taught at college by clueless acadamics. Caused me no end of pain when doing 3D animation in the mid 90's. I had to work by myself with no lecturer in the school of architecture of product design to get access to proper 3D apps. Because graphic design, illustration and animation only had macs and nothing else.