I am really intrigued when people claim that more students are buying Surfae books than MBPs. Where are those students? Do you have any statistics to back that up or it’s just “anecdata”? If it’s latter then I can add mine here. I have been teaching in 5 countries in 3 continents over the past several years and I teach subjects that require coding. I have to go around the class helping students out on their laptops. I have so far seen only 4-5 Surface laptops. On the other hand the number of students using macs ranges from 5% to 80% depending on the type of the class (undergrad, full time masters, executive masters, PhD) and the country. That has remained steady.
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> On the other hand the number of students using macs ranges from 5% to 80% depending on the type of the class (undergrad, full time masters, executive masters, PhD) and the country
Did you see a trend with the type of class, did the PhD classes have a Different distribution or was it other factors that affected it
I see most PhD students in business management with Windows computers. There Macs have 5%-10% incidence rate in my experience. I work with a few CS profs and their students and all the profs use Macs and their students use either Windows or Linux (I think) machines :) I spoke with two of them who use new MBPs before buying mine and they strongly recommended buying it.
In some executive teaching in Europe I have seen people using mostly Macs. It could be because of the industry where they came from. Among the masters students in France, about 50%-60% had Macs.
The caveat remains: This is "anecdata"
Anyone in a business-focused program will suffer with a Mac as Excel for Mac is very much a second-class citizen. Forget not having PowerPivot and PowerBI, the lack of keyboard shortcuts alone will slow your work to a crawl.