In Fortune Magazine’s article “What’s Cool for School?” Peter Lewis asks, “Windows or Mac?”
Lewis writes, “Left-brain students, the kind who major in accounting, business, or engineering, typically gravitate toward Windows, the standard of the corporate world. Right-brain students, who tend to major in English, art history, and philosophy, are likely to wind up working at Starbucks anyway and thus are better suited to Macintoshes. Macs are relatively unaffected by the viruses and other security glitches that plague Windows machines. Also, iPods and Macs were made for each other.”
Of the Apple iBook, Lewis writes, “Apple hasn’t updated the iBook in nearly nine months—which means only that the Windows competitors have almost caught up to it. Apple may refresh the iBook ($1,266 for the 14-inch model, same specs) in the near future, but college students who buy one now under Apple’s Student Union plan get a discount and a free iPod Mini.”
MacDailyNews Note: Apple unveiled a faster, updated iBook line on July 26th. Future Starbucks workers can find more info here.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Macs are not relatively unaffected by the viruses and other security glitches that plague Windows machines. Macs are completely unaffected by viruses and Windows glitches. Now, is Lewis just joking or does he really believe the stereotype that Macs are for “right-brain students who are likely to wind up working at Starbucks anyway?”
Last year, Lewis answered the following to his question “Windows or Mac?”
These days I’d definitely vote for the Mac OS, which is less susceptible to crashes and viruses. Windows is more popular, but seems perpetually to be on orange alert. You don’t want to hear, “A virus ate my term paper.”
It’s difficult to see what’s changed since last year.
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A recent series about the Mars lander showed workers at NASA using PowerBooks 4:1 to Windows laptops. If these workers are future StarBucks employees – this is probably why the coffe tastes ‘out of this world’.
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people! get a whiff, buy a clue! the guy is trolling for HITS and what better way to do it than to write something potentially insulting that’ll be linked to a Mac site! those guys are going to have mailboxes full of pissed, angry Mac users many of whom are going to be indignant or REALLY nasty and then he’ll respond by either saying “Hey, I wasn’t insulting to the Mac platform or community… Look at all the nice things i wrote” or “See! Mac users ARE full of themselves!”
i say ignore the bastid.
No, some writers have NO brain at all.
I actually disagree with this article.
Most mac morons work out of Dunkin’ Donuts.
A starbucks barrista is a little sophisticated for these Apple zealots.
Toodles!
“If these workers are future StarBucks employees – this is probably why the coffe tastes ‘out of this world’.
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they USED to be Starbucks employees… while they were interning at JPL. once they became full staff and real live rocket scientists they just kept using their Macs.
MW: future
“Get the OS of the ‘future’ today… available only on Macintoshes.”
Answer to Justified,
His brain stem works….
Lewis is an ignorant idiot. dont wast time on his opinion.
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I have an MD and an MPA, I am a CEO of a fairly large company, and I think accountants and journalists are clueless. I do frequent Starbucks, and think the company is well run, and its employees are dedicated and fairly loyal. I use a Mac, I have converted many of our machines to Macs, and I haven’t heard nary a complaint about viruses, spyware, adware, or anything else.
Given that, Peter Lewis is a putz. More than that, he’s a clueless journalist, and wouldn’t know how to run a business, including the local Starbucks. He certainly doesn’t know crap about computers.
Apparently, writting for Furtune Magazine takes about as much requirements as working at Starbucks.
Amazing.
“Those who surf the Web using a Mac tend to be better educated and make more money than their PC-using counterparts, according to a report from Nielsen/NetRatings.”
Hmm…Starbucks must pay pretty well.
Waiting for MS to get Bush to say “The terrorist are using Macs. If you want to be a terrorist, get a Mac. All the rest of us God loving citizens need to use Windows. God Bless America.”
Shortly there after… the sheeple will walk like mindless zombies to the nearest best buy or pc store and pick up a windows box.
MW “enough”
as in… Enough is enough… Bush has got to go.
His article is dated ‘August 8, 2005’ Maybe he lives in the future.
On page 5 of his article, he says, “Apple hasn’t updated the iBook in nearly nine months—which means only that the Windows competitors have almost caught up to it. Apple may refresh the iBook ($1,266 for the 14-inch model, same specs) in the near future, but college students who buy one now under Apple’s Student Union plan get a discount and a free iPod Mini.”
He may want to make sure his facts are straight before making weird comments about Starbucks, Apple, and being right-brained.
From the article:
“Right-brain students, who tend to major in English, art history, and philosophy, are likely to wind up working at Starbucks anyway and thus are better suited to Macintoshes.”
What a condescending, insulting, elitist comment. This guy reminds me of some old asshole college professor, who’s salary is trumped only by his ego. I’m not sure if this is comment is really class warfare, or some political left-verus-right jab.
What’s wrong with gravitating toward an OS that gets out of the @#&*ing way and lets you get to work? Most people have enough to do without their tools working against them.
Peeter Lewis – can you say: bullsh*t? All 7 of the biology research labs I’ve been associated with have been dominated by Macs. Surely a coincidence, right? Wrong. There may have been one PC somewhere, gathering dust next to the biohazard waste I think it was.
Do you suffer from some sort of pressure (from your boss maybe?) to write distorted articles? “Fortune Magazine – read us, make a fortune.” Not.
I’m a graphic artist. I use a Mac. We don’t even have Starbucks in Australia, well, not near my home town anyway.
<quote from another article> [Windows Vista] Beta 1 will not be available to the general public, at least in part because it lacks many of the user-oriented features Windows Vista will have when it ships in the second half of 2006, Microsoft officials say. “The whole canvas is not complete,” says Greg Sullivan, group product manager in the Windows client division. “We’ve painted less than half the picture here.” </quote>
Canvas? Picture? I thought Mac users where the right-brainers.
I work at Starbucks all the time. I take my PowerBook to Starbucks and work there over lunch and coffee, and then head back to my high-powered international law firm office here in Tokyo. What’s wrong with that?
well I work in a hospital and lots of the labs use macs of various types as they are nice asnd reliable etc etc. The main network runs on dell pcs (sorry for using the D word) and the new ones put in less than six months ago are already cluttered with the usual collection of spyware and assorted crap which can still get through corporation sized firewalls. At home I still use a rather elderly imac on OS9.1 (remember that?) It still works perfectly – anyone know any PCs that still run six years down the line?
It’s the right brained people who will shape the future. Has anyone ever heard about an accountant who was nominated for a Nobel price?
try using both halves of your brain
Duh, there they go with the right brain left brain stuff, leaving us transrationalist using, uh, Macs with Office.
Best and worse of both spheres.
MDN is right in saying that OS X is unaffected by Windows viruses and glitches. Viruses, 99.9% percent of the time are OS specific. But a Windows glitch is just that. OS X has it’s own glitches, albiet they appear lesser and generally aren’t of grave consequence. No code is ever perfect, and there is always a “ghost” in the code somewhere. Proof of “glitches” are right on the Apple website, the updates for Panther and Tiger.
Is this guy on drugs or does he work at Starbucks and only moonlight as a tech writer? I have a BSME (mechancial engineering), and an MBA, I don’t work at “Starbucks”, and I use a Mac. I switched to Mac two years ago because I could either find all of the software I used on the PC for Mac or I could find substitutes.
Macs just make more sense, are easier to use and are not prone to the viruses and nonsense that seems to plague Windows machines. You would think with all of the enginnering resources and intelligent “left brain types” Microsoft must have working for them that they would at the very least be able to write an OS that works as well as OS X. Putting down Mac users rather than attacking the slip-shot work done by Microsoft is a testament to just how little Lewis understands the consumer computer marketplace.
macs are by far the computer of choice in the life sciences. engineering students ofetn need windows for matlab, compsci people might need a windows box for some certain coding progam, but otherwise every other dicipline requires only ms office and the ability to connect to the internet.
accounting, business….? enough already