“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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Wilkes University to dump all Windows PCs, replace with Apple Macs – February 22, 2007
Apple Mac #1 in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) education market – October 31, 2006
Apple Macs make strong rebound on campuses – October 28, 2006
Nearly half of computers purchased at Harvard this year were Apple Macs – October 27, 2006
45-percent of computers purchased at Princeton this year were Apple Macs – October 12, 2006
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There’s been a rebirth of using Apple technology on campus. Three years ago it was one percent.
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No it wasn’t.
Weird…when I went to college in ’86-’90 no used anything but Macs, from what I can remember. Even the campus word processing rooms were all macs, and one ignored room of PCs at the back.
Nice to see Apple coming back…but Jesus, how did Apple blow it that badly to begin with?
” . . . how did Apple blow it that badly to begin with?”
Three words: Sculley, Spindler, Amelio.
Somewhat off topic, my dad’s interested in an 20″ iMac but the Dell Dimension E520 (20″ monitor) is about half as much at $679. Consumer Reports even rated the Dell higher. I’ve already mentioned no viruses or spyware, and easy of use, but I don’t think that’s going to do it. Any suggestions?
“Any suggestions?”
Chloroform?
Just kidding. You might mention the coolness, integration and exclusivity of the iLife apps.
>I’ve already mentioned no viruses or spyware, and easy of use, but >I don’t think that’s going to do it. Any suggestions?
“Sure dad, go ahead and order that. Just remember, though, I’ve never touched Vista so if you have a problem you are on your own.”
@Renderdog
Video iChat is a useful selling point. They may not have grandkids now, but they will.
@Renderdog
Yeah, iChat is what came to my mind as well. I don’t know your living arrangements but if you are not in the same home you can promise more facetime.
“Any suggestions?”
Mention that Spotlight can keep track of all your documents in a nice easy search – where you never have to worry what was saved where. It’s the search that Microsoft wanted but cut out of Vista.
A new iMac would come with iLife, the best family orientated program here is iPhoto. Being able to just plug-in your camera and have iPhoto load automatically is the way computers should work.
You could also mention that adding iWork to the purchase price negates buying a copy of M$ Office (once Cells is included). If you need anything more Office-like then NeoOffice/J has really made a tremendous Office clone for free. I’ve always hated the high price of Office when most home users never need all the facilities.
Watching TV episodes and Films on my iMac with Frontrow has changed the way my whole family use computers. Even my 5 year old can push in a disc and watch SpongeBob.
Any help?
I’ve just sold my old Dual G4 that I bought in November ’03 and have quite a list of handy free programs that really make a Mac even more friendly. The quality of most Mac apps puts alot of Windows programs to shame.
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The higher quality software and integration are both good points, thanks. I also mentioned Macs have better resale value. He’s got grandkids but they’re on a modem so iChat won’t help there yet.
He should be an easy sale since he’s had multiple problems with Windows in the past; we’ll see. MDN often points out how Mac’s are priced the same as equivalent PC’s but the price of the Dell Dimensions is difficult for him to pass up, even though it may mean more pain in the future…
As much as Busting Skulls hates games, and me talking about them.. make more games for Mac = more students buy Macs = larger installed base for Macs in future.
What Apple is doing now is working but only to a point, they could be doing better.
If you don’t like games, not having them available makes no difference to you, but if you DO like games, it makes the difference between buying a Mac or a PC.
I don’t care about AutoCAD, but I’ve never said that it doesn’t matter whether it comes to the Mac or not, I’d like as many programs for as many people as possible to be available so fewer and fewer people are forced into buying Windows.
pocketRocket: Vista does actually have the ‘Spotlight’ search function, and (can you believe it) it even works.
A suggestion: an iMac eats up less space on the desk than a Dell.
the little community college i’m currently attending is a mixed bag. most of the students still use PC laptops, but most of the faculty uses macs. i got plenty of positive comments from my prof’s about my powerbook.
ah. and our campus has free wifi, for which all i had to do was type in a username/pwd. i tried (honestly, i did, and i have over ten years experience with windows) to connect some XP laptops for some kids in my english class – with no luck. i told them both to get a mac. =)
” . . . how did Apple blow it that badly to begin with?”
Three words: Sculley, Spindler, Amelio.
I’ll add that it was the combination of putting the sales guys in charge, trying to move forward with old baggage (Copland), and having no answer to Windows 95 and cheap (but effective) PC hardware.
Today MS has the sales guys in charge, they’re trying to move forward with old baggage (Vista), and still have no answer to Mac OS X, iLife, and Apple’s in-house hardware.
Funny how history repeats itself. Apple, fortunately, didn’t try to ship Copland, and at least someone had the guts to buy NeXT and bring back Jobs.
I was going to say that within a few years people will be wondering how MS blew it so badly, but with PC assemblers going back to Windows XP, it’s already happening….
tipping point.. I wonder how widespread the demand for WinXP is on new hardware? I’d love to see what % of new hardware buyers get XP installed in 6 months, when Vista drivers and software updates becomes more widely available.
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