The fact of Apple Macbook (Air) in Uni's!

[Quarterquack]

I'm taking a second year course and its 100% macbooks

I take that to mean you're a contributing sucker?

To be honest, I'd buy a MacBook air. They look aesthetically pleasing.
Of course the first thing I'd do after purchasing it would be to format it and install debian, then find a hack to make the battery user replaceable.

Based on aesthetics alone, apple is doing well.
I'd only consider an MBA or a thinkpad if I were in the market.

[1000possibleclaws]

Naw I have a POS hp that works for up to 15 minutes when its not plugged in. So I don't have a laptop in my classes..

[iLOVENZB]

Well just be grateful you don't have an Acer Aspire . The trackpad has worn off, the left click is broken and there are some keys that don't work. 'Nuff to say I take notes on my phone :

[mjmacky]

Well just be grateful you don't have an Acer Aspire . The trackpad has worn off, the left click is broken and there are some keys that don't work.

I had the exact same issues, to the key, with my Acer Aspire. Now I think it's in one of my desk drawers amidst a stack of old graded assignments that I never gave back in previous semesters.

[mjmacky]

Naw I have a POS hp that works for up to 15 minutes when its not plugged in. So I don't have a laptop in my classes..

Sorry then, I was misled by the 100 % figure, which is in my field a very extreme figure. Even though I'm extremely antitheist and hate Apple beyond all recognition, I'm only 99.5 - 99.99 % certain that god/gods doesn't/don't exist and that I'll never buy an Apple branded product.

[1000possibleclaws]

My class is probably entirely macbooks because only tools and morons bring a laptop to a 50 minute business class that is discussion based or just the teacher telling stories. I'm betting if it was a second year econometrics class the laptop branding would be more evenly distributed..

[Skiz]

I was about to say that's clearly the Engineering hall in U of T. Also for people who want clarifications: There are three types of Seminar courses in Canada.

The first involves what U of T does for its first year. People filed into a general degree (or without a declared major) are allowed to take a seminar course that almost gives them a condensed version of everything they'll come across in a certain discipline, that way they can make more informed decisions.
There are seminar courses that involve discussion group strategies between the students themselves, as well as the analysis of contemporary research.
And there are seminar courses that involve guest speakers on a weekly basis.
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On topic: Toronto. The hipster movement is strong with these ones. It doesn't help that Apple has booths in every University around Canada, and in every Future Shop and Best Buy. Can't really top strong brand marketing when it's always shoved down your throat.

Wrong.

Why is it "clearly the Engineering hall in U of T" when it obviously a classroom at the University of Missouri? I can count 14 clearly distinguishable "Mizzou" tshirts in the crowd and plenty of others that are Mizzou's colors.

[Skiz]

I take that to mean you're a contributing sucker?

To be honest, I'd buy a MacBook air. They look aesthetically pleasing.
Of course the first thing I'd do after purchasing it would be to format it and install debian, then find a hack to make the battery user replaceable.

Based on aesthetics alone, apple is doing well.
I'd only consider an MBA or a thinkpad if I were in the market.

Then you would be ripped off like the rest of them. There are numerous PCs that resemble the MBA these days. My fav being the Lenovo ultrabooks being released this month which are actually thinner than the MBA.

[Quarterquack]

Then you would be ripped off like the rest of them. There are numerous PCs that resemble the MBA these days. My fav being the Lenovo ultrabooks being released this month which are actually thinner than the MBA.

You realize that the Ultrabooks file under the thinkpad branding, correct? And that I'd said I'd pick either the Thinkpads or the MBA. Also, anyone who cares about thin-ness is idiotic. Simply because the measurement system for how thin a laptop is has been broken for years. All that matters are the ergonomics of a laptop, and you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who can tell the difference of an entire pound between distinct form factors (tear-drop vs. rectangular, par exemple).

Wrong.

Why is it "clearly the Engineering hall in U of T" when it obviously a classroom at the University of Missouri? I can count 14 clearly distinguishable "Mizzou" tshirts in the crowd and plenty of others that are Mizzou's colors.

Could be. UofT has an identical lecture hall, so much so that earlier in the thread a UofT student blogged by posting the picture in question from the OP.
I do see the Mizzou shirts, and you may be right.

So what's with the disagreement with me like, do I really stick out that much in a thread, or do you just find everyone else tres agreeable?

[mjmacky]

Wrong.

Why is it "clearly the Engineering hall in U of T" when it obviously a classroom at the University of Missouri? I can count 14 clearly distinguishable "Mizzou" tshirts in the crowd and plenty of others that are Mizzou's colors.

The photo was from an article about Univ of Toronto seminar classes. There is a decent chance it was some kind of stock photo or other unrelated media, but natural assumption could be that it was somehow related to U of T.
dudelovesnzb posted the link in comment #6
http://www.blogut.ca/2011/05/24/firs...class-at-uoft/