I don't believe I made a post about it, but I did do some tweets on the matter that, in my Photography class, we use PCs. We use the most awesome PCs that are not for hardcore gamers. They were built from scratch by my professor and the head of the Time Arts department and have 16 GB of RAM, terabyte harddrives, and gorgeous screens that can pivot to pretty much any angle or degree. Also, they run Windows 7, and not in the crappy school mode (the mode where you can't search for things, you have to menu-scroll for them).
Which basically means I am in love with the computers we get to use for class. And when you're handling images that are now breaching into the "crap that's a big file" territory, you need this stuff for that nice, almost zero-ping effect.
For assignments, we have to take a certain number of shots and actually print a small number. This past assignment was 4 prints, with 144 shots taken. We then copy-paste those shots into a folder on one of the computers, so everything in that area is digital. Now, I use the method of "take a bunch of pictures, narrow it down to a certain amount, turn those in" because a.) not all my shots are good, or even "meh", but b.) my professor does not want to look at 600 pictures. Also, c.) transferring that amount takes a long time and makes the others waiting in line not like you.
So like the first girl who was submitting her images. We were wondering what was taking so long, and she was like "Oh, I'm giving him all my pictures". All 400+ of them. Oi.
The line narrowed down to two girls ahead of me, and lo and behold, they are both Mac users who apparently have no idea how to use a Windows interface. Neither could figure out where the first one's flash drive was, despite the fact that when you plug in ANY sort of storage device into a PC, a rather intrusive box pops up saying "hey bro, I found this device, what do you want to do with it, you want to look at the stuff in it?" Thankfully, the one figured out how to get to Computer and locate it there, but was then uncertain how to transfer the images.
I also wondered how she did this two weeks ago and then completely forgot, but whatevs.
But at that point, I was getting annoyed, so I rattled off "control A, control C, control V" to get her moving along. I must also remind you, they are the same controls on a Mac, except with that command key.
Then the transfer began, but apparently it wasn't moving fast enough, so the two started to complain about how slow the PCs were, and how much they miss their Macs, and how they wish they could use them all the time, and blah blah blah...I turned to this other girl standing in line and mumbled "I like my PC...", which she agreed on. We proceeded to share mutual liking of the computers in the lab, and then discuss the prejudice a Windows user suffers in the Vis Comm department (her major, my former major).
I grew up on a Windows computer. We've had a computer in the house for as long as I can remember, and I remember when Windows wasn't set up the way it is today. It's all pretty intuitive to me, and I understand that it's not that way for everyone. But I also remembered that all of my schools only ever had Windows-running machines, because if your school could afford Macs, I didn't go to it. Nearly all of the computer labs at the university are Windows, with the exception being in the art building. So I figure that, at some point in your life, you've used a PC before using a Mac, or at least in conjunction with one, and should not be so damn clueless with them.
Also, you have no idea what you're talking about, because I doubt your laptop can compete with the beautiful machines we have in the lab. :T
