The University of Texas at Austin has an enrollment of approximately 50,000 students as well as 12,000 full time and 13,000 part time faculty and staff. There are 17 colleges and schools, as well as over 90 research units, 7 museums and 17 libraries. The main campus and the Pickle Research Campus (PRC) include several hundred buildings with a network point of presence. There are also external sites located around the city of Austin. All told, the campus network serves roughly 200 buildings and sites, covering over 20 million gross square feet indoors.
For department wired networks, the ratio of Microsoft versus Apple devices is relatively unchanged from the last survey point, after correcting for unknowns. There has been an increase in Linux devices.
The University of Texas at Austin:
Wireless networks are different: Apple operating systems are the majority for traditional devices, and dominate mobile devices with over 85% share.
Source: The University of Texas at Austin
MacDailyNews Take: The OS of the past clings on to the PCs of the past (wired) while the OSes of the future power mobile wireless students and faculty.
[Attribution: MacNN. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan King” for the heads up.]
The real story here is that the Zune has 2% share in mobile. ZuneTang must be jumping for joy.
The REAL real story here is that the Zune’s 2% is twice as much as Windows Mobile’s share.
Windows Phone 7 – a great big stinking pile of FAIL.
I like pie.
And I like pickles, and I absolutely cannot begin to tell you how THRILLED I am that the university has a pickle research area. I mean, really, isn’t it heartening to think that work is being done on inventing a better garlic dill?
Pickles are as dangerous as coffee and cellphones, according to the WHO.
Dammit that ruined my day. Who, as opposed to WHO, would have thought that holding a pickle up to your ear would give you cancer? Bet that’s what they are working on in Austin — A Safer Pickle.
Given that there is a TRIGA reactor at PRC, cancer is a distinct possibility. However, TRIGA is typically used as a medical research reactor, e.g., *curing* cancer.
LOL, the Pickle center is named for former congressman J.Jake Pickle….But the local garlic dills are damn fine as well…. 😉
Garlic? Must be a Texas thing. In my world, nothing beats a proper half-sour.
In addition to Pickle Center, the UT campus also features Hogg auditorium. As I recall it was funded by Ima Hogg (yes that’s right) daughter of late 19th Governor, Big Jim Hogg. The story she had a sister named Ura is not true.
I’m thinkin’ that there oughtta be a research center on campus to investigate some slightly more, uh, elegant last names…
And how many of those ‘Windows’ laptops are MacBook Pros running Parallels or BootCamp?!
Good question!
Hey, don’t confuse the Aggies…..;-)
I think Aggies are A&M, but I’m not sure…
I’m adding to the Mac count at UT Tyler!
Yes, they are A&M, which is why UT gives them a good-natured hard time for being farmers.
And congrats on being in Tyler, still a lovely town that I have good memories of while living there from ’81-’82.
I always used wired ethernet in college. There are so many people using wireless that throughput drops by more than 50%. If you know anything about networking, this is unavoidable; it’s an inherent limitation of wireless that as the number of people using it increases, quality decreases.
Not to mention there are those who will sit around capturing data packets, trying to figure out passwords and the like. Wired ethernet eliminates both of these issues.
Yup agree 100%. If I have the option, I’ll always go for wired as well.
You could if you wanted to buy an AirPort Express and tether that to a wired connection while offering yourself the wireless option. There will no hit on speed as you will be the only wireless client on the LAN. The only exception being if the airwaves are congested you could find yourself being interfered with on the over the air interface but that’s rare as there are many channels to select from especially if you’re not restricted to 2.4 GHz. I always find this the best solution – a mixture of wired and wireless.
Google but especially Microshaft should be seriously concerned. When you look at the big picture, Apple is cornering the next generations of consumers. It started with the iPod/iTouch and now it’s iPhone & iPad. The “halo effect” is very much alive and kicking MS in the crotch. Macs/iPads are on the rise in every industry and the household. Apple will continue inroads into every industry with the next group of leaders leaving our universities.
Stock now at $400+, laughing all the way to the bank!
It would be nice to see the wireless data over time, to see if there was a tipping point. Most assume that the tipping point is around 50%, so Macs on wireless just passed that at 52%, and mobile devices passed it a while ago since they are now at 83%.
Who knew cows could use computers?
Moo.