On location in Beijing, athlete cum filmmaker Steve Omischi captures HD footage of the Olympic games, edits it in Final Cut Pro, and transfers his rough cuts to Final Cut Server. That’s when the production crew at Blomeley Communications takes over. But, wait, the post-production crew is thousands of miles away, back home in Ottawa, Canada. How do they accomplish their remote control Olympic coverage?

“Issues are the last things a kid needs at college and Macs have fewer issues with viruses, malware, and icky stuff like that,” explains Bob LeVitus (chron.com). He recently sent his own daughter off to college with — what else? — her own Mac, and to help fellow parents make the right choice for their undergrads, LeVitus lists the twelve reasons “why your student should take a Mac to college.”