Thai Students’ Choice, Touch-Screen PC or Apple Machines?

Cite this article as: Arunrangsiwed, P. (2020). Thai Students’ Choice, Touch-Screen PC or Apple Machines? Retrieved from https://sw-eden.net/2020/04/08/pc-apple/

In this semester, I teach 3 courses, Animation, English for Entrepreneur, and English for Business Computer. I had taught in 6 different rooms and two of them are computer labs. My university is public university ranked in top 20 of Thailand and also with a moderately-low registration fee. Many people want to be in our school. The machines in one of the computer lab are very slow. My students often complained about that, but I like the machines in that room though. This is because students can use their fingers to draw on the screen.

Students needed to wait for 30 minutes to turn on the machines and to open the software. After that long-hard time to set everything up, students enjoy using their fingers draw the cartoon characters and animate them. Some students bought special pens to draw on the screen. They had fun and the touch screen is very convenient for everyone.

For another computer lab, the machines are very fast. The brand is Apple. My students had never complained about the speed of the machines, but the software got some bugs. In some machines, students cannot charge the color. I could not do anything, and I only suggest them to complete their work nicely with two-color style.