But I thought you didn't like Apples Mac OS/X either???
My daughter has an iMac on her desk at home but uses some little Lenovo Think Pad with Windows 8 that Wake Forest "provides" to all their students. She hates Windows. Got a virus while on campus, not sure how she got it fixed, but I suspect the school PC gurus spend much of their waking hours removing viruses and restoring data to student's computers.
I played with a MS "Surface" tablet, liked it, but am still sticking with my iPad. I'd like my iPad to do more, and don't like to carry my big MacBook Pro, but I do see the shortcomings in the iPad when compared to the "Surface" tablet.
That must be the only campus in the country that uses Windows! At every campus I've visited in the last 5 years, carrying around anything that runs Windows OS is akin to walking around with lamb-chop sideburns, wearing super short shorts and wearing striped tube socks that come up to your knees.
My oldest daughter is now "shadowing" physicians around IU's Hospital in the evenings and basically everything is now 'written' on iPads with purpose designed software on them for medical record keeping and automatically updates the patient's main records in real time via their wifi system in the hospitals. I'm told that really takes the "terrible doctor's writing" out of the equation and prevents mistakes made by the time lag that used to exist between the time a physician treated the patient until some nurse, or assistant, entered the information into the patient's electronic records.
After using an Android or iPhone, the learning curve to using a Mac computer is about zero whereas the learning curve to go from Windows 7 to Windows 8 is years at best. Where there were just a few programs written for a Mac about 15 years ago, it seems that not many companies are much interested in writing programs for, what appears to be, the doomed Windows operating system. If you figure that the roughly 30% of desktops currently running XP will absolutely flip out when facing Windows 8, I see another huge increase in Mac users on the horizon as the XP users are basically forced to make changes. I've been told that hardware that depended on XP for the last decade, like ATM machines and medical equipment, is having their new software written for a Mac OS instead of the highly disdained Windows 8 OS.
