(30-01-2018, 03:04 PM)Tmplt Wrote: Houseoftea Wrote:
Something worth noting is that apple products have become a status symbol among college students in the states.

This applies to a degree in Sweden also, especially in humanities and art as you pointed out. It is unfortunate because Apple products are much more powerful than that the student probably needs unless there is a lot of rendering to be done; I've managed the last four years with a Thinkpad L430 which I bought out of HS for ~50EUR — although, the lab assignments I've done have never been heavy on the computing side.

I've noticed that with the undergraduate students thinkpads are becoming pretty popular, probably running windows on most of them, but then some of their modules (in engineering) require them to use Solidworks and other windows only software :/
But there's a definite trend away from macs here in the UK, at least in Physics / Engineering