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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Please note:
1. The author has the whole left/right thing the wrong way round. Left hemisphere dominance indicates a tendency towards mathematics, logic, language, and other abstract and symbolic concepts (the left hemisphere is the seat of Wernicke’s and Broca’s areas). Right hemisphere dominance indicates improved awareness of spatial relationships. Engineers and artists are usually right-hemisphere dominant, whereas mathematicians and politicians are usually left-hemisphere dominant.
2. All of the above only applies to men. Normally, women don’t specialise these faculties into different hemispheres of the brain (they don’t have Wernicke’s or Broca’s areas).
yankees suck is what i meant
His email is: plewis@fortunemail.com
Here’s a tip for Peter Lewis of Fortune: Mac users are also much more likely to be working at advertising agencies which pay big money to magazines like FORTUNE, so they can in turn hire “writers” like Peter Lewis to do “comedy” bits on gadgets, thus saving people like Peter Lewis from also working at Starbucks.