“It appears those ‘I’m a Mac/I’m a PC’ commercials have struck a chord with someone at Wilkes University. The Pennsylvania institution announced today that it plans to get rid of all its Windows-based computers in the next three years and replace them with Macs,” Dan Carnevale writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Carnevale writes, “The university has an enrollment of less than 5,000, and any student who wants to use a PC will have to bring his or her own. The Wilkes computer labs, which now house 1,700 computers of both varieties, will be made all Mac in the $1.4-million switch. In a news release, Wilkes officials said they preferred Mac technology to that of the PC and pointed out that the Macs are less susceptible to computer viruses. Macs still work with Windows programs, so students will have something more to do on the computers than play with iTunes.”
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MacDailyNews Take: “Macs still work with Windows programs, so students will have something more to do on the computers than play with iTunes?” Looks like dumping Windows and going all-Mac struck a chord with someone at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Expect more of this Stockholm Syndrome behavior as the Windows hegemony crumbles before their eyes.
For the record, Apple Mac has a bountiful software library to explore: start here. Check it out before you resort to slumming it with Windows and Windows-only apps. By the way, Apple Macs can run more software than Windows PCs. Period.
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Apple Macs can run more software than Windows PCs – October 30, 2006
Apple Mac’s 2007 market share climb will dumbfound almost everyone, create mayhem in PC market – September 08, 2006
$399 for Windows Vista Ultimate?! (Hint: Get a Mac) – August 29, 2006
Dude, you got a Dell? What are you, stupid? Only Apple Macs run both Mac OS X and Windows! – April 05, 2006
Defending Windows over Mac a sign of mental illness – December 20, 2003
Not to mention that only a Mac will run BOTH Windows and OS X. And they do so natively at full speed. So in other words, no PC has the software library available to it that a Mac does. Anytime anyone mentions anything about software availability, that needs to be mentioned.
Refresh my memory, but doesn’t the “Think before you click” mean DO NOT GIVE THESE SUCKERS the time of day by going to their sites?
Okay, Welcome, Wilkes, to great computing; what will your IT boys do with their free time now?
Expect MS to come at them CPUs blazing. If they receive any funding from MS, it comes at the price of having to have a majority of its computers running Windoze. RIC received funding from MS from a lawsuit settlement recently (about 3 or 4 years ago). Ironically, the communications lab, which had been all Macintosh, suddenly became all Windows, overnight, as a result of the settlement, which, allegedly, had been won by the college. Despite a ruccus from many of the students, the response from the college was essentially that they were “free”.
What’s really annoying is, if everyone writes to Carnevale and tells him how wrong and snide his statement about “playing with iTunes” is, all he’ll do is chuckle knowingly and say, “Well, I certainly seem to have offended the rabid religious ‘Apple’ cult! Those people are so predictable” etc. rather than acknowledging the error.
What about this messge attached to the article:
>It is a myth that Macs don’t have security problems. We just suffered through a >denial of service attack launched from a group of Macs run by Mac lovers that >didn’t think they needed protection. Shut down servers in the US and overseas. >Macs have the most vulnerable operating systems existing.
— Janice Feb 22, 10:48 AM #
— Janice Feb 22, 10:48 AM #
Macs have the MOST vunerable operating system existing???
That is news to me. Is there a story here? Who is “We” ?
RC said: “Not to mention that only a Mac will run BOTH Windows and OS X. …… Anytime anyone mentions anything about software availability, that needs to be mentioned.”
I think that that is a bad thing to advertise. It deserves ‘mention’ perhaps but lets not encourage switchers to continue running windoze apps on their new Macs. Then where is the advantage? Switchers need to make a clean break. We should not coddle them or encourage them to cling to their old bad habits. We, as Mac users, owe nothing to the switchers. Help them when they ask, but no need to go beyond that.
The’ve got software on the Mac now?
Good call on there part. People are finally seeing the light in some places.
The “Think before you click” is appropriate here. The Chronicle of Higher Education is *notoriously* loose with facts. Take a look at how they’ve characterized academic freedom (i.e. freedom from indoctrination) — “Look here, you underage moneybags, shut up and take it! You’re ours to mold as we see fit, never mind that the state pays all of our wages!”
laughs at paul thurrott
Windows compatibility should absolutely be mentioned and advertised ad nausem because some of us that use and love our Macs at home are stuck with Windows only crap at work.
I’d give anything to be using an iMac with Parallels Desktop at work instead of this sh*t pile PC I’m stuck with up here. That has nothing to do with helping switchers. It has to do with being about to use a Mac in places where it has been (wrongly) shut out previously.
……Which reminds me …..
Wonder how the “Big Mac” project is going over at Virginia Tech .. We havent heard from them
in a long time !
someone needs to produce a website that debunks the no software myth.
it could feature not only a list of software, but the dates they were introduced on the mac.
for example: photoshop – on the mac since – 198_
Microsoft Word – on the mac since – 198_
Sorry I don’t have the dates.
I know a lot of people that only play with iTunes on the PC as well…
My brother is looking for a job. He has 6 years experience as an IT guy at a small (~5000 enrolment) Pennsylvania university. Expert in Windoze 200 and XP.
I thought the meaning of “play with iTunes”, meant that THAT was the only piece of software the PC users currently use on their PCs. Only that he misplaced that part of the sentence so that it implied that that was the case on Macs.
Hahaha Windows 200 (that was the original name of Microsoft Bob) hahaha….sorry for the typo
Actually my take was that the less informed assumed Macs only ran iTunes and the statement was to say they do much more than that. I hope no one flamed them for the way it was taken. If they go through with the switch (IF MS does not give some Vista marketing dollars “support”) then it becomes an nice win for Apple that could be a basis for other large deployments of computers to follow.
MDN key word COSTS as in hopefully the FULL costs of having Macs VS WinBlows is looked at with patch management and virus/spyware fighting costs included – so long as the computer doing the spreadsheet is a stable enough WinBlows system to figure it out.
That’s what I call higher education.
” . . . all he’ll do is chuckle knowingly and say, “Well, I certainly seem to have offended the rabid religious ‘Apple’ cult! Those people are so predictable” etc. rather than acknowledging the error.”
I agree. I think we should beat the living shit out of him instead. Then, scribble iBitch on his forehead with an indelible laundry ink marker. Now, get out of the Oval Office. I have a country to run. Freakin’ pansies.
Thanks, Cheney. And yes, it is truly you who runs the country (obviously not George).
Now, speaking of pansies, what was the reason you didn’t go to Vietnam?
Oh YEAH! I remember now.
“….Cheney was of military age and a supporter of the Vietnam War but he did not serve in the war, applying for and receiving five draft deferments. In an interview with George C. Wilson that appeared in the April 5, 1989 issue of The Washington Post, when asked about his deferments the future Defense Secretary said, “I had other priorities in the ’60s than military service.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney
Freakin’ pansy. (And murderer. Ok, let’s add chickenshit).
A murdering chicken-shit pansy
In this case, “Think before you click” means that the site has a teaser, and the full article is for paid subscribers only.
As I am affiliated with a college, I will make a point of getting this through other channels.
Always Right = Communist Fag Traitor
Always Right = Communist Fag Traitor
Whadd’ya mean? Didn’t you read my post? About what Dick Cheney himself said?
The vice president is the Communist Fag Traitor.
“Macs still work with Windows programs, . . .”
This sounds like it’s a given that they always did, apart from emulation programs that I’m sure were not considered, nor should they because their performance is abysmal.