Interested to know what you think about Apple winning over students - are they doing a good job?
I wouldn't say they are doing a good job and I haven't seem them do a good job since the late 70s/early 80s when
Apple was synonymous with the word
education.
But these days, who can compete against Windows? Graphic design students and audio engineering students pretty much all have Macs, both laptops and workstations. Those are two groups of students who I have seen that overwhelmingly have Macs and I would say almost to a fault they consider the Adobe Suite or Pro Tools as being better with OS X.
One PC audio engineer I know uses PCs and freely admits that Macs are better and more trouble free, but he's OK making good money and using Windows and recording musicians, and he also admits it's because he has become so good at working out the bugs in Windows and his setup brings in pretty good money, so why change is his reasoning? I don't fault him as he is the go-to guy for recording.
He doesn't want to relearn the operating system thing at this stage and work with OS X since he's probably almost PC technician level, and this late in his career he's the highest paid musician, by far, in my county.
But for anybody starting out as a graphic designer or audio engineer via pro tools, it's foolhardy to get a PC running Windows when OS X is much easier to learn and maintain.
