[duaneb]

Sure, lots of skills are good to have. Not at hundreds of dollars a class, though, and certainly not worth associating with a bachelor's degree. Otherwise my peers would all have degrees in Eclipse and be unemployed right now.

[spriggan3]

What a strange statement. Do you understand that for a student in graphic design or industrial design, knowing the theory is as important as knowning InDesign or AutoCAD right ? Do you understand that while you can get away with coding in a cloud IDE if you are a student in CS, some disciplines rely also on learning specific softwares which will not run on your ChromeOS computer? Or your goal is just to defend ChromeOS at all cost even with ridiculous arguments? No ChromeOS isn't the best computer for students in all disciplines.

[duaneb]

Do these colleges not offer labs? For shame. What are people even paying them for?

[Macha]

Are these labs free? At the same time you don't have lectures? Are these computers actually up to date? Oh, you need to run this tool with it that requires local admin? Oh, the last guy had local admin and screwed something up?

[dublinben]

Graphic Design or Industrial Design departments shouldn't be teaching how to use specific proprietary programs. The principles of those disciplines can be used in any of the numerous tools out there, and the real skills of a designer are transferable.

[spriggan3]

> Graphic Design or Industrial Design departments shouldn't be teaching how to use specific proprietary programs. The principles of those disciplines can be used in any of the numerous tools out there, and the real skills of a designer are transferable.

It's as idiotic as saying that future surgeons should only learn medicine theory on Chrome books. Do you not get that Graphic Design or Industrial Design departments should teach whatever is needed so that students get a job in these domains at the end of college ? Do you not get that students often have to build projects in professional conditions using professional tools ? Do you not get that you don't replace most professional tools in these domains by cheap web based knock offs ? So you clearly don't get why selling ChromeOS books to these students is wasting their money.

[Sanddancer]

In theory, however the alternatives are very limited in comparison. Things like CMYK support are pretty vital when doing prepress work, but have been deemed low priority by developers of programs like GIMP. So in order to learn a huge amount of the workflow, they'd end up needing to use a program like photoshop anyways.

[baldfat]

Um sure that single digit students who are in design they need more tools or a number of other majors. MOST students don't need to know inDesign or Photoshop or anything else.

[spriggan3]

> Um sure that single digit students who are in design they need more tools or a number of other majors. MOST students don't need to know inDesign or Photoshop or anything else.

Says who ? Did you major in Graphic Design ? no you didn't.

[baldfat]

> Says who? Did you major in Graphic Design ? no you didn't.

I am confused are you saying I am wrong and students in Design don't need more then a Chromebook? Or they Don't Need Photoshop or in design? Or did you not read what I said when some students need more for example Design students?

Once again there are some instances for people in design for example who need more. So the MAJORITY would need more MOST don't.

[hola_hola]

If you are in engineering, computer graphics and are working on school projects I would expect people to use these tools to make their life easier. I'm not really sure what you are objecting to.