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You're conflating a 'professional' as a white-collar job classification, and a 'professional' computer user. The macbook pro is a computer for professional com
by yaseer 10y ago
You're conflating a 'professional' as a white-collar job classification, and a 'professional' computer user.
The macbook pro is a computer for professional computer users.
A professional philosophy professor has no need of a macbook pro, a professional video-editor does.
Being a 'professional; in your white-collar classification, doesn't imply that you're a professional computer user.
It's not an insular definition, it's a specific definition.
- glhaynes 10y agoA professional philosophy professor has no need of a macbook pro, a professional video-editor does. I don't see why. A philosophy professor might prefer a larger screen and a faster CPU for their web browsing and document editing. And, while a professional video-editor would understandably gripe about it, I have no doubt they could get their work done—if they had to—on a 12" MacBook. Video editors used to get fine work done on Pentiums that offered a small fraction of the performance. It's not an insular definition, it's a specific definition. Set by whom? Where?
- yaseer 10y agoI'm sure you can find some philosophy professors that will appreciate bigger screens and faster computers; that wasn't the point. This is about the semantics of the word 'professional' and avoiding confusing a 'professional' in the white-collar-job sense, and a 'professional computer user'. Set by whom? Where? Well, apple don't define their terms formally in a Dictionary, they're subject to interpretation. I would say they've historically marketed the Macbook pro as a computer for 'professional computer users', not 'professional' in the white-collar vs blue-collar sense of the word.