UK college relies on Apple
updated 04:05 pm EST, Wed November 22, 2006
UK college, Apple
Edinburgh's Telford College in the UK recently moved from a set of outdated buildings to a new, purpose-built premises and purchased a slew of Apple hardware for the faculty and students. The school now boasts ownership of more than 150 iMacs, as well as 35 MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks. The school elected to use Apple hardware after pricing equivalent Windows systems, discovering that the cost of Apple's solution had the best pricing for the 20-inch cinema displays -- which are built into each iMac -- required by various departments. Another key consideration for the decision makers at Telford College was Apple's Boot Camp technology, which allows Intel Mac users to run Windows software to accommodate those users who still require Microsoft Windows XP installations.
The college network runs off a single Apple Xserve, according to Apple, and another Xserve is used for application deployment. "I never really associated Apple with file servers but they're well built, well designed and well specified," said Michael Turpie, ETC's associate principal of Information Services. "We will definitely get more at some stage."
