5 Reasons Windows 7 Is A Better Deal For Students Than Snow Leopard
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversMicrosoft took on rival Apple head on this week in the education market with a special offer for students to purchase Windows 7 for $30, about the same price as Apple's competing Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Microsoft is promoting the offer, which runs through January 3, 2010, on a special Win741.com Web site, where students can buy the upcoming operating system as long as they provide a valid student e-mail address. The offer applies to Home Premium and Professional versions of Windows 7.
The Windows 7 special offer comes as Apple makes a push to grab share from Microsoft with Snow Leopard pricing aimed at undercutting Microsoft for the first time ever. Indeed, Apple, which released Snow Leopard on August 28, has gone to great lengths to price its products at a premium compared to Microsoft. Nevertheless, here are five reasons why Windows 7 is a better deal for students than Snow Leopard.
1. Windows-based Systems Provide A Better Value: Even if Apple gives Snow Leopard away for free, it can't even come close to the value of systems that will be outfitted with Windows 7. Do the head-to-head price comparison and you'll regularly find Apple systems priced at more than double a comparable Windows based system.
2. Windows 7 Will Be Used By Businesses. Snow Leopard Is A Sideshow: Like it or not, Windows has a 90 percent share of the market. It is absolutely the operating system of choice for businesses. Windows 7 does business. Apple Snow Leopard does artists and kids. Apple is a blip on the screen in the global market. Schools that are embracing Apple are doing kids a disservice, as they are likely to be working on a Windows machine when they graduate to the real world.
3. Windows 7 Is Playing Nice With Open Source. Snow Leopard Is Not: Microsoft has changed its tune on open source, and that's an advantage for students compared with Apple's proprietary stand.
Australia, for example, is rolling out 70,000 Windows 7-enabled Lenovo IdeaPad S10e for high school students. And believe it or not Australia's Department of Education has confirmed that the devices will be pre-installed with a variety of open-source software including GeoGebra, Dia, Audacity, Freemind and MuseScore.
4. Windows 7 Has More And Better Application Support Than Snow Leopard: It's about the applications, stupid. There are tens of thousands of education solutions built on top of Windows compared with hundreds for Apple. And the fact is the applications of the future are going to be designed for Windows -- NOT Snow Leopard.
5. Windows 7 Has Stronger Education Solution Provider Support Than Snow Leopard: Apple blew its chance to take a bigger share of the education market 20 years ago with its shabby treatment of a once-loyal solution provider channel. Today, Microsoft has tens of thousands of solution providers delivering real-world solutions to the thousands of school districts in this country.
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Comments(9)
movies, including the ones with cg, should be using an equal amount of mac,
linux(unfortunately,,,b/c of autodesk), and windows(for bluray publishing and anything
else that they dont use macs with).
thats said, if we only talk about
hollywood, 50% use final cut pro,,,, some 20-30% to avid, and avid is on the macs and
windows, so it's hard to argue at that point whether there are more avid mac users than
avid windows users.
other than linux(unfortunaely again) being an awesome
server, whether it is ubuntu or centos or any other types, macs i find are better servers
than windows.
with windows....the awesome thing about it is...games.....
now, from my experience....form time to time i recommend to people if there are
either suited for windows or mac. it's about half and half. but some people that i direct
to mac....they are just to afraid to learn about a new operating system.
it's not about being afraid of a new os. it is about functionality and quality. i have
seen many mac os's crashing, with viruses and running crappy. if you want something
really good go with the best: windows
face it mac geeks microsoft is the winner
d:
one advantage has the mac products. the compatibility
i'll give points to mac for style and the ability to run final cut pro.
other than
the above reasons, there's not need to spend two to three times what you'd spend on a pc
with very similar hardware.
ever have to replace a mac motherboard? they cost 4 times
what an almost exact motherboard for a pc would cost.
i really think people buy macs
because jobs and company somehow make them feed 'special' for buying their overpriced
hardware.
i switched to a mac after my pc laptops(hp, compaq, and toshiba) all died 1 to 1 1/2
years after purchase. bought my first macbook 5 years ago...i'm typing this email on it.
sorry to say, although win7 looks like it will be a winner, the quality of the pc's it
will be running on is very low overall. apple consistently rates very high on quality and
customer service. there are higher quality pcs, but they will cost you as much as a mac.
sorry, the "spend more, get less" argument just doesn't hold water. in mac's and
pc's, you get what you pay for.
"the offer applies to home premium and professional versions of windows 7."
i
don't see any mention of win 7 pro being offered to students on the webpage, only home
premium 32 or 64 bit.
microsoft could save themselves a fortune if they would have just one single operating
system rather than all these different versions that just cause confusion in the
marketplace.
you need to click on the bit about domain join? this will pop up a window allowing you to
buy professional in 32 or 64 bit instead of home premium in 32/64 bit
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By gabriel on 19.09.2009 - 21:09