--Originally published at Computer and Information Security
Recently our campus bought several mac pros for the development lab. You know, those pretty powerful computers from Apple. There is only one issue, almost every student would rather work on their own laptops than on the macs.
You may be wondering why the students don’t like to use those computers. I will list the reasons why I don’t use them.
The mouses
The mouses the school bought for the macs are Apple mouses from more or less 2008 and not all of them work properly. Some of them don’t detect right clicks nor double clicks. I mean if you are going to spend that much on a computer you may as well invert a little bit more on the components it uses so you can actually work with them.
Single user
I did have to use the macs last semester because my macbook air is not able to run the android studio emulator (other than that there is no other program I need that my macbook cannot run) and it was a disaster. There is only one user to login and every student that used the same mac I did saved their files in the computer. Even if I created a folder with my name other students would still save their files in there. Now imagine how this issue was even harder during exam periods. There may had been at least 4 folders named exam_n.
File transfer
Whenever I used the mac I still had to transfer all the files I have worked on to my computer so I could continue working with them.
Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the effort our school makes to give us great technology but I believe that this has not been an adequate implementation.
