* Graphic Designers require Photoshop... maybe Maya, 3d Studio Max or Blender as well.
* Other art majors will benefit from pretty much anything in the Adobe Suite: not just Photoshop, but Premier, After Effects (for Video Editing).
* I'd bet that a Communications major would use the same tools as art majors / graphic designers use.
* Architecture majors require CAD of some kind. Ditto with Landscape Architecture majors, Civil Engineers and Mechanical Engineers. Building homes and testing how they look like in virtual environments: turns out to be useful ya know?
* Everyone in the Biology field uses some form of statistical software. (The one that was big in my school was SAS, but IIRC there are lots of competitors)
* Actually, to hammer the above point even more, any subject that ever touches upon advanced statistics more or less requires training in SAS. So not only Math/Statistics majors, but Business, Sociology, Psychology, Economics, Health Policy (with potential applications into nursing...)... a lot of people use SAS.
* Any "lab" science practically requires Labview. Be it Physics, Chemistry, or Materials.
Basically, every major except English in the top 10 list requires advanced programs that run on Laptops. For many of these purposes, I guess a $2000 Macbook Pro would be usable... but the $899 Surface 2 just seems like a better buy in comparison.
IIRC, even English majors touch upon specialized software in the form of Library Management Systems, but I'm not very familiar with those.
* Journalism requires typesetting software. IE: Adobe InDesign.
* Graphic Designers require Photoshop... maybe Maya, 3d Studio Max or Blender as well.
* Other art majors will benefit from pretty much anything in the Adobe Suite: not just Photoshop, but Premier, After Effects (for Video Editing).
* I'd bet that a Communications major would use the same tools as art majors / graphic designers use.
* Architecture majors require CAD of some kind. Ditto with Landscape Architecture majors, Civil Engineers and Mechanical Engineers. Building homes and testing how they look like in virtual environments: turns out to be useful ya know?
* Everyone in the Biology field uses some form of statistical software. (The one that was big in my school was SAS, but IIRC there are lots of competitors)
* Actually, to hammer the above point even more, any subject that ever touches upon advanced statistics more or less requires training in SAS. So not only Math/Statistics majors, but Business, Sociology, Psychology, Economics, Health Policy (with potential applications into nursing...)... a lot of people use SAS.
* Any "lab" science practically requires Labview. Be it Physics, Chemistry, or Materials.
Basically, every major except English in the top 10 list requires advanced programs that run on Laptops. For many of these purposes, I guess a $2000 Macbook Pro would be usable... but the $899 Surface 2 just seems like a better buy in comparison.
IIRC, even English majors touch upon specialized software in the form of Library Management Systems, but I'm not very familiar with those.