In all the years I have been teaching in classes and privately one-to-one, it has been obvious which computer allows students to learn far more and faster, and which costs radically less to support and maintain—Macs.
Yet despite the facts, some educational institutions continue to buy Windows machines instead of Macs. I am teaching in one of those places right now, and each day is a trial thanks to having to deal with all Windows’ many shortcomings and screw-ups. Why do people put up with this?
The school in question has to employ a fulltime technician to keep the machines running, and they go down every day during classes. The school cannot afford books, a library, or current versions of the software I teach.
In fact I spend much of the time each day teaching students how to use Windows, how to do the simplest of things in it, dealing with bugs, blue screens and crashes, and the way Windows dictates that you do things according to its needs, not the other way around. And the machines cannot handle much of what they need to do, because they are old and underpowered.
Buying into the Windows cult is taking the sure road to perdition, in my experience. I should know —I used a Windows machine daily for 3 years, instead of a Mac, and threw the evil thing down a stairwell when I finally bought a Macintosh.
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