education
02/22/2007, 9:55am, EST
Thursday, February 22nd
Wilkes University drops PCs, goes all Mac
Apple is continuing to make strides in the education market, despite some recent negative remarks by Apple CEO Steve Jobs regarding teachers' unions. Bolstering reports of Macs rebounding on college campuses, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Wilkes University, a higher education institution located in Pennslyvania has announced that it plans to get rid of all its Windows-based computers in the next three years and replace them with Macs. "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." University officials also plan to convert its existing computing infrastructure to Macs, the report said. The Wilkes computer labs, which now house 1,700 computers of both varieties, will be made all Mac in a project that is expected to cost $1.4 million.
The institution said it "preferred Mac technology to that of the PC," noting that Macs are less susceptible to computer viruses. iPods have also been integrated in a variety of education programs
Last fall Apple overtook Dell in the UK education market as report indicated gaining popularity among students at college campuses. Apple also announced that it landed two particularly large educational institutional sales during the September quarter, but did not provide details.
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If these errors really bother you, perhaps you could be polite and send them a private message?
Complaining in the forum 1) mucks up the forum for the rest of us, and 2) is silly considering the editor probably does not even read most comments.
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Please take the time to capitalize the first word of your sentences. Your failure to do so bothers me.
who cares if he didn't use capitalized letters? it did not take away from his post since you understood it enough to respond to it.
oops... looks like i'm doing it too. hope you're not offended. you grammar police can be very picky at times.
Please let me know if my spelling/grammer/punctuation were ok.
And "Mac" should be spelled "MAC".
But the most egregious (or is it egregiousest?) problem was you dared to try to take a pointless forum discussion back on topic and attempting to add logic to it, as well....
On topic, this is a huge win. And those who need both can just run Parallels or Bootcamp. IMO this is great for students.
Leave your petpeeves at the door, the forums have and will be filled with incorrect punctuation, spelling and grammar. If you are really so concerned with this, become a teacher. Read the Wall Street Journal and other professional print publications with a huge editorial staff.