“Pablo Molina, CIO at the Georgetown University Law Center, says there’s been a dramatic move away from PCs among the campus’ 3,500 students – and back to Macs,” Robert L. Mitchell blogs for Computerworld.
“There’s been a rebirth of using Apple technology on campus. Three years ago it was one percent. Now more than 25% of the students are arriving with Apple laptops. So we’re eagerly embracing Apple technologies as something that people find much more intuitive and [they’re] not necessarily more difficult to support.”
Mitchell writes, “Georgetown is just one data point. Are other campuses are seeing a similar surge in Mac usage?”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bob” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: The switch from Windows to Mac is not just happening at Georgetown. Please see related articles below.
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Huge back to school sales – watch the stocj soar to 200 starting sep – jan (with back to school, xmas, macworld).
“Apple’s Macintosh makes monster gains on college campuses”
Go, go Applezilla!
Helped switch one more last week.
Would a Mac smaller than an mini be an Appletini?
I’ve got 2 switchers in line… we’re waiting for WWDC to see what’s new before they take the plunge!
It’s amazing. I’ve counted about 1 out of 10 of the laptops in any classroom are Mac’s (mostly MacBooks’s). But we have an Apple Store right across the street at my school, that probably has something to do with the increase.
Count me as one of the ones who contributed to the count of Mac heads at Georgetown Law. Convinced my best friend to buy a MacBook before entering Law school there and has nothing but great things to say ever since he bought it.
ok, so are we talking Godzilla changes, KingKong changes, or Monsters.Inc changes? You gotta be specific about your monsters.
@Twisted Mac Freak
Would a Mac smaller than an mini be an Appletini?
Nope. An AppleTV!
Watch apple turn the device into a low cost headless Mac once all the development costs are amortized by the current incarnation.
“I don’t see what the big deal is. When people buy a computer from Apple they can now squirt Windows onto it, which is exactly what people are doing. We win either way. Now excuse me while I go throw a few chairs.”
~Steve Ballmer
Once again, there goes Tokyo.
theres tons of educational and edutainment software for the Mac out there. PC counterparts in educational software are just as lame and broken as the PC’s they run on.
I’ve got the best switcher of all. A friend of mine is a former super computer and windows specialist with over 25 years experience working for Digital/Compaq/HP. He’s interested in buying an iMac when the new models and Leopard come out.
His reasons are dual operating systems, more robust o/s, price and grunt. Today, when I was talking to him he was asking about the price of iMacs.
The other morning I sat at the Honda place waiting for vehicle service, flipped open the Macbook, clicked on Skype in the dock, popped in the spare iPod headphones and called work to tell them I was going to be a little late. Meanwhile, two other people sitting near me with laptops about have a duck. The sheep can’t even imagine it(even though their laptops could also do this with a little work)…what if I had used iChat and videoconferenced…they would have run screaming. The Mac is the only real reminder out there that this is 2007. M$ has brainwashed most of the planet. China is kicking and leapfrogging our butts.
Wonder if they will make gains here, a few miles from my hometown
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TT: Dude. You need to shave. Today.
Saying that Macs are “not necessarily more difficult to support” than PCs is like saying that supermodels are “not necessarily easier to bag” than fat chicks.
I’m just saying.
@ R ,
I’m doing my part. Probably have about 5 I’ve switched so far. Planted the seeds for many more.
GManMac: Planning a busy Father’s Day? Oh, you meant switchers!
(j/k)
an appletini would be a mini with vodka and an olive.
@Twisted Mac Freak
Maybe it could be called a Crab Apple.
Yup…I see more and more students with MacBooks on Campus….not to mention iPods.
And the students who do not have a laptop, when asked, usually say that when they have a chance to get one, a MacBook is want they really want.
The tipping point is….SOON!
I would like to know if there has been adramatic shift away from Windows in Pablo Molina’s IT department. Probably not…
Beryllium: With five little pairs of stands for support? They could start with a Bondi Blue Crab Apple.
My girlfriend went to Georgetown in the early 90s. She had a Mac Plus. I still have the Mac Plus!
Which reminds me, Dikembe Mutombo was in her english lit class and plagiarized one of her papers, (he asked her if he could see it, to get an idea of what the prof wanted, since she had done hers early), of course, Dikembe didn’t get punished but my g/f got the interrogation! The sods.