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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Wow.
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02/22, 10:19am, EST
Very cool. That little snowball sure is picking up speed, isn't it?
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spell check
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02/22, 10:29am, EST
if you are writing this article with a computer perhaps a spell check before you publish it might make your web site a bit more professional; but then again it could take a few too many seconds to be worth your while.

blah, blah, blah
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OK
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02/22, 10:42am, EST
I do not pay to read MacNN. Accordingly, I do not complain when it goofs up on spelling or grammar.

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.

PS:

Please take the time to capitalize the first word of your sentences. Your failure to do so bothers me.
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Huh.
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02/22, 11:18am, EST
Well, that quickly went off track.
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re: terrin
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02/22, 11:18am, EST
I think your post would be a GREAT example of the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black"

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.

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..Back to the topic
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02/22, 12:17pm, EST
I don't think that making remarks against the teacher union will have any effect on Mac sales in education. When teachers have recommended Macs in the past administrations have ignored it. It is up to school boards etc. to make those decisions.

Please let me know if my spelling/grammer/punctuation were ok.
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02/22, 12:57pm, EST
There should have been a comma after the word 'past'. And one after 'school boards'. And one after 'etc.' if I'm not mistaken. 'ok' should have either been "OK" or "okay". Finally (and quite funny, I thought), 'grammer' is spelled 'grammar'.

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....
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From the article
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02/22, 2:28pm, EST
Macs still work with Windows programs, so students will have something more to do on the computers than play with iTunes. --Dan Carnevale
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Mac vs. MAC
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02/22, 5:13pm, EST
OT again: Mac is short for Macintosh. MAC is the acronym for Media Acccess Control.

On topic, this is a huge win. And those who need both can just run Parallels or Bootcamp. IMO this is great for students.
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Sheesh u guys
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02/22, 5:57pm, EST
My MAC hadnt been with viruss for a long time, its not like we need to worry about hour grammer when everything else online l00kz liK3 a TOO yearold tiped it up.

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.
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