[Professor S]

I'm currently getting my TLT certificate (Teaching and Learning with Technology), and I am in the middle of a PC v. Mac war. I'm a PC guy. Here's how the argument works out.

All the neo-commie pinko socialists love Mac... even though their product is more expensive by far and their "one company to make them all" attitude smacks more of fascism than freedom.

All the neo-fascist baby-killing Hitler youth love PCs... even though they are much cheaper and enable the consumer to create, fix, maintain and upgrade their own equipment which smacks of a red conspiracy.

All jokes aside, my college runs on Macs and I've never had more problems with computers than I've had with Macs. They run iMacs and Powerbooks and they constantly lose data and crash. Everytime I use a school computer I make sure I have my memory stick on hand. Mewanwhile I run a Dell, which is almost 2 years old, and it has only crashed a handful of times (mainly due to my careless ways) and I've never lost an ounce of data.

In the end, I'm more pro-PC in schools because of the price and ability of self-upgrade. With the monetary demands on schools cost and flexibility will outweigh any perceived quality gap.