A lecture hall photo taken recently at The Missouri School of Journalism is worth a thousand words:
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Looking good to me!
That’s AWESOME!
WOW, That’s what Im talking about Macs in the hands of most!!
Where is Zune Thingie now?
Fake!! A total Photoshop job.!
Rock ‘n’ Roll !!!
That photo is music to stockholder’s ears.
if it’s a photography class it may not be that significant…
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They were probably all sitting their using Bonjour to videochat while Professor Biggles fumbled around on his Vista PC trying to launch PowerPoint!
They don’t even pay attention to the professor!!!
Maybe, but there is not a single Nikon in sight…
Sucks to be the guy in the first row with a Dell. He must be so embarrassed that his parents didn’t buy him a Mac.
When I was in school, I was the only one in the lecture hall with a Mac (iBook) — and the only one with a laptop in the lecture.
Boy, a lot has changed in six years.
Its actually ,
Missouri School of Journalism
Mac users group
Damn. That’s still unfortunately a far cry from the average college class room, however.
But clearly it’s a positive step, this trend continues it won’t be an isolated case.
I plan on being part of the statistic soon when I switch from PC to MAC. Just waiting for the release of Leopard.
…but it’s a journalism class STUPID! So it’s quite significant. =)
Cute girl in second row in red shirt.
Gigady Gigady Gigady!
http://journalism.missouri.edu/undergraduate/computer-requirements.html
“Students are encouraged to acquire wireless laptop technology from Apple, which the School has designated as its preferred provider, but students also will have a choice of a Windows-based alternative. Last year, 99.5 percent of incoming students chose the Apple option.”
Hahaha, my Photoshop work is nice huh?
Wow!
MW: plan as in the master plan is coming to fruition.
Similar – yet – larger wave of converters at the Sheridan Campus in Ontario Canada. Most (9-10) coarses now done on MAC.
It’s pronounced: Missour-uh.
No doubt these notebooks are filled with stolen music.
What do they teach the spelling coarses on?
What WILL Zune Tang say?
I see at least 3 red Macs.
Holy Shit! That gives me goosebumps!
a & Wallus…
It’s Mac as in Macintosh. Not MAC cosmetics.
The picture is obviously a fake. You see MAC lemmings, there’s a little program available for lucky Windows users called Photoshop which can do some pretty fantastic things with images. Clearly someone performed a little magic on their PC as a joke on you MAC dorks. I almost feel bad for you.
Maybe Adobe will port Photoshop over to the MAC if Apple’s market share cracks 4%, which should happen… never. Losers.
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thanks, Homie. It’s a great picture, but what you found is what I expected.
Please refrain from posting photo’s like this. My boss just threw ANOTHER chair through the plate glass window of his office and it accidentally killed one of the swans in the synthetic reflecting lake.
Perhaps in 4 or 5 years there will be some writers out there who actually research the topic they write about.
It´s a basic “How to use your Mac” class.
Requirement to take the class – you have to own a Mac.
Buy AAPL now!
(MW: future. Just ironic. These kids are our future.)
Just think, a good percentage of these kids will get into some major decision making role for their own company or another’s and start the adoption of Macs company-wide because of their success and joy using Macs throughout college.
Heck, that’s why my company uses Macs, the owner had a great experience using them in college.
They’re all viewing tasty pROn.
Oh, this is just beautiful:
“Q. What brand or model should I buy?
A. The faculty has designated Apple Computer as its preferred provider for two primary reasons: (1) Apple’s OS X operating system is based on Unix, which makes these computers far less susceptible to viruses than other computers. Viruses are a serious problem on university campuses. (2) Apple iBook and PowerBook computers come bundled with iLife, a suite of applications ideal for learning the basics of photo editing, and audio and video editing. We’ll use those programs in several classes. Incoming students will receive information on recommended models and pricing in February of each year.
Q. What if I prefer a Windows-based machine?
A. That’s an option, but it’s one we do not recommend unless you plan to make a career of computer-assisted reporting. By the time you purchase photo, audio and video software for a PC, you probably will have spent more than you would if buying a comparable Apple Computer. Buy a PC if you prefer to do so, but make sure it is wireless and has Microsoft Office. Almost 100 percent of last year’s freshmen chose Apple computers. “
awesome…brings sunshine to my heart…bringing back my college memories when the Macintosh Classic reigned supreme–through innovative merit, not via an abusive, subversive monopoly.
Actually, as a alumni of a Journalism School (Drake University, woot!), Macs are the norm there. If this were an acturial science class…. That’d be something, but as a J-school, it’s nice, but certainly not expected.
However, that’s a lotta new hardware there, so go AAPL, go!
I think it’s mostly because there is a lot of journalism software that’s only available for the mac. The professional journalists in the audience can feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
In the “show me” state, eh?
Well, I guess someone showed them.
Zune Tang is really showing his ignorance if he thinks Photo$hop doesn’t run on Mac. What a Dorkomundo!
For the last time…
(not really, there will always be idiots out there)
ZUNE TANG IS HUMOROUS. HE WRITES EXAGGERATED STATEMENTS. HE WRITES LUDICROUS STATMENTS TO BE FUNNY. IF YOU DON’T GET IT, YOU ARE ONLY PROVING YOURSELF TO BE A MORON.
Keep in mind that I only use “he” in the formal sense here, for all I know, it could be C1 or something. I dunno.
Is it the lighting, or are the majority Mac Book Pro, or just white Mac Book
WOW!!!
I LIKE IT!
i don’t recall seeing a single laptop in my lecture classes when i was in school… and that wasn’t that long ago. of course i wasn’t in journalism, but still. we were all to broke for laptops, lol… we kept it old skool with pen and paper, lol. even after i got into my graphic design classes i still didn’t see many laptops… but you better believe the ones i saw were apple!
Are there any other campuses which designate Apple as their _preferred_ platform? This is an encouraging trend, if so, as well as being not shortsighted. The other problem, of course, is their requirement for Office- these days, there are alternatives, which should also be encouraged.
MDW word- ‘corner’ – as in turning the….
Resistance is Futile!
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It’s pointless to point that out to most people on these boards. I’ve tried several times in the past to elucidate the same point…. but got plenty of flame from the ignorant here.
Just let them keep flaunting their inability to recognize the humor and wit in the real ZT’s posts (there are several ZT wannabe’s, as is painfully obvious from their lack of wit and humor) while we chuckle at their flaunting.
LOOK. We all know that Zune Tang ATTEMPTS humor. The point is that he HASN’T BEEN FUNNY FOR THE PAST SIX FREAKING MONTHS.
Zune Tang has JUMPED THE SHARK.
Nobody seems to notice how many of these have the cases colored (presumably by colorwarepc?).
I take offense at that Busting…
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Busting . . . .
Even the most successful comedians change their acts after a certain point, for crying out loud. PuneTang has SO outlived his entertainment value it’s pathetic. But then again, an old dog is the last to smell his own farts.
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Man, when I graduated 2 years ago from college, I was one of the only people carrying a Mac laptop. Things are changing….
This looks like a wonderful advertising opportunity for Apple – Macintosh computers being used for higher education.
“pointless”… as I said.
@ Zune Tang
Over 40% of Adobe’s sales are for the Mac platform. The number is also growing.
Basty,
I’m a photojournalist and I’m unaware of any software for journalists that is only available on Mac. If anything, the newsrooms of the 90’s went through a terrible spell of custom-written windoze-only software for entire newsrooms which I’m sure they’re regretting now.
nopw that’s pure preference in that photo. and it doesn’t look like Photoshop to me, though I can’t explain the red Macbooks.
The red macbooks have the Speck cases on them. I’ve seen quite a few student aged folk at coffee shops with them. Apparently the Speck hard cases are popular with them (I personally don’t get it).
Hmmm…
Not to be sexist (or dismissive of all those logos) but there are some really cute chicks there.
it’s definitely not fake. i’ve seen it with my own eyes. it’s amazing.
here’s another pic, by the way:
and the colored macbooks are either colorware or cases
I feel sorry for the kids who have no laptops, no…. wait, I feel more sorry for the ones who have Window’s laptops!
: )
What’s most alarming about this pic is that the woman in blue on the right of the front row appears to be giving birth to a baby zebra!!
University of Missoui School of Journalism highly recommends (i.e. nearly requires) students to get a mac. The picture is no different than if you dropped in on one of the hundreds of classrooms in America where the school system bought Macs for the kids.
That being said.. almost all my friends buy Macs now.
That is the most beautiful picture I have seen in a long time. LOL
@Listen you fscking idiots… you are a pompous ass …. and Zune Tang long ago became boring and far from funny … same ole same ole …
Well never see that recommendation out of our tech department. Billy Gates payed us too much for a whole building here. Gotta keep those donors in dollars so they keep donating those dollars.
But the Mac share is gaining on it’s own power without their help.
an amazing amount of my Windows suffering friends are now switching or have already switched to Mac… all of them seem so incredibly relieved. as if they have finally escaped an incredibly embarrasing siituation
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I wouldn’t be surprised to see this in ‘real’ life… but I must say it does look a lot like a Photoshop composition.
I wish Tom Cruise would weigh in. If any body knows the history of journalist computer use, he does. I know I don’t.
Tom? Are you out there?
Enlarge the pic by clicking on it. You’ll see that all (4!) who own a PC are staring at their neighbours Mac screen…
that may be a fake, but i kid you not, on my dorm floor probably 60% of the new freshmen showed up with macbooks. another 15% with mac book pros.
Sigh! I remember taking my B-School quant final at HBS, where all the students had IBM Thinkpads back in 1991. Of course, I was over at the Public Policy school, and lugged my Mac SE, across the river, to take the exam. I actually had to write my own Black-Scholes option pricing model in Excel, since the application handed out was PC-only! Kids have it easy today!
This photo is not a fake. The Missouri School of Journalism recommends Apple laptops and more than 99% of students at the school choose Apple laptops. See the school’s website here:
http://journalism.missouri.edu/undergraduate/computer-requirements.html
Why I’m Not Worried!!!!!
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My worst nightmare averted! Jobs says No to OSX running on non-Apple PCs! WHEW!
I admit it, for a while there I was scared that Jobs was going to announce that their next candy-coated OSX (Leotard) would run on any PC hardware! My fears were abated when I heard him say this:
“Our goal is to make the best personal computers in the world and make products we are proud to sell and recommend to our family and friends. …. But there’s some stuff in our industry that we wouldn’t be proud to ship. And we just can’t do it. We can’t ship junk,…. There are thresholds we can’t cross because of who we are. And we think that there’s a very significant slice of the [market] that wants that too. … We don’t offer stripped-down, lousy products.”
THANK GOODNESS he still has a bad attitude like that and it sounds like he will never change! I hope he stays CEO of Apple forever.
There’s quite clearly visual artefacts around the logos on these laptops – so there HAS been some work here. No one doubts Apple’s presence, but, FFS acknowledge a joke when you see it.
@zunebe-get your eyes checked for cataracts now.
There are no artifacts around the Apple logos.
it’s too bad that’s in the business school (even though it may be a journalism class)…
Yeah, as an actual journalism student at Mizzou, I can confirm that this photo is most likely real – I see and experience this on a daily basis, we really are all on Macs. Gets pretty ridiculous at times. It’s the science/business classes that lean more towards PCs.
Just for the record, PC’s can do pretty much everything a Mac can. They just don’t do it as well. A Yugo had an engine and four wheels and could get you from point A to point B but that didn’t make it a BMW.
This is a pretty atypical situation. The class almost never looks like this. Most of us still use our notebooks. Actual notebooks.
Our professor asked us one day to bring our computers to class so a picture could be taken of everyone with their Mac computers, which is almost the official computer of the School. And yeah, I’d hate to be the guy with the Dell.
I’m in the second row, the one with the glasses by the way.
nahh, it’s not a fake photoshop job at all
anyone who goes to Mizzou can confirm that it’s real. I see it everyday.
ZUNE TANG IS NOT<b>HUMOROUS. HE WRITES <b>THE SAME BULLS**T OVER AND OVER. HE WRITES LUDICROUS STATMENTS TO BE FUNNY, BUT ONLY SUCCEEDS IN BEING A TROLL. IF YOU DON’T GET IT, YOU ARE ONLY PROVING YOURSELF TO BE A MORON.
from Zune Tang:
“The picture is obviously a fake. You see MAC lemmings, there’s a little program available for lucky Windows users called Photoshop which can do some pretty fantastic things with images.”
Zune Tang is right. In addition to the ‘red-eye reduction’ filter, the Clone Retouching tool in Photoshop for Windoze automatically clones out PC laptops from your photos, replacing them with far more photogenic MacBook Pros.
It’s not a fake! The Missouri School of Journalism really pushes its students to get Macs. The whole university is really Mac-based, and only a certain few departments encourage their students to use PCs. The classroom setting above isn’t the norm. Sure there are kids with their Macs, but there isn’t any one time like this where, unless staged as this was, you can find everyone on their Macbooks as in this picture.
It was just a prompt. The professor asked us to do it for a photo op.
This picture is totally fake. There is no way that a lecture that big gets that good of attendance!! Loving the macs tho.
This is an introductory course at the Missouri School of Journalism. For freshman. The School nearly requires Macs, or at least pushes them. Check journalism.missouri.edu and look for computer requirements. They basically downplay the PC as much as possible.
You guys are really embarrasing yourselves when you claim this was photoshopped or a fake. I was there. Five hundred kids were there. This isn’t how it always is… the prof just wanted everyone to take a picture like this.
Im in the only one in my whole lecture hall with a laptop and its a mac!
It’s a fake. Unless:
a. All Apple laptops have highly reflective logos. Many are too bright for the lighting.
b. Apple makes green and red MacBooks.
Nice try, whoever did this. Anyway here’s to the day Apple does see that kind of market share.
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anyone who owns a mac will know that the logo becomes lit once the computer is turned on.
and apple DOES see that kind of market share when a department or school mandates (practically) the use of a certain computer. it’s a real classroom, with real students, using the computers the missouri school of journalism prefers their students to use. and when i say “prefers,” i mean they might as well make it mandatory because they make their preference KNOWN.
you guys are making yourselves look stupid! i’m in this class.
FIRST OF ALL, TO THE THE PEOPLE THAT THINK THIS PICTURE IS PHOTOSHOPPED, THINK AGAIN. I KNOW QUITE A FEW PEOPLE IN THIS PHOTO, SO THIS IS NOT FAKE….
FYI THIS IS A JOURNALISM 1010 CLASS, FOR THOSE WHO THINK DIFFERENT…
Sorry for the CAPS, but I get furious at things like this.
apple is loving this pic
Rigged. Journalism has always been somewhat Mac Centric because they aren’t technical. Macs have always done layouts and fonts better than Windows with less work. It’s not representative. It’s how to lie with pictures (subset of how to lie with statistics.
Look at all those mac drone idiots. Spent all that money for a paperweight when you can get a Alienware or any other laptop for about half the price with a bigger screen and way more power.