I guess I can understand that to some extent. I always saw them as a more sincere "power metal" band than the rest of the bunch. The newer stuff, particularly Unia, blows me away though. I don't care too much for the newest one.
It's macs exclusively on the degree pretty much, all of the studio computers in college are macs and we work with Logic and Protools at studio of course...we only use Windows machines in the library and for some Piramix DAWs.
The LCM lecturers are pretty much mac salesmen aswell, haha, they'll shove the hype down your throat until you go and buy one!
It says you're based in Leeds as well as Scotland, sweet! I'm up at Leeds college of music on second year music production, live just out of the center in Headingley!