"At my university macs have a huge market share among students and professors and it's growing all the time. All my fellow students who had to replace laptops in the last two years got macs. "

Further evidence of the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy among pointy-headed latte-sipping ivory tower campus intellectuals! ;-)

every time I see a testudo comment, I feel stupider for having read it. I can actually hear the neurons screaming in pain as they wither and die from testudo's relentless onslaught of Teh Stupid.

MacNN webmaster, could you please add a killfile function to the comments here? The day I don't ever have to be subjected again to yet another of testudo's inane, pointless comments can't come soon enough.

Save the "doofus" comment, I'm with testudo on this one. Why? I actually worked with Ms. Barr during my freshman year at OSU and can tell you she's both competent and capable. That being said, OSU leans far more toward CS and other sci than it does the lib. arts (granted, I graduated in '01, so...), justifying the greater emphasis and support of Windows and Linux/Unix over MacOS. Now, do they have a little catching up to do? Perhaps, yeah (Apple has come a long way in that time), but I think it's great they're acknowledging the Mac's inherent value and viability given their history of being very Windows-centric. It's progress, folks! :D

One issue I have with the article ... the computer lab I worked at (one of several) had about 75-80 Macs. So, unless they've scaled back or haven't grown their Mac box count in 7 years, I find it a little hard to believe they support a mere 150.

I'm one of those who agree testudo is a troll. However, he does make valid points now and then.

As for this topic, be nice to the schools who are adopting more Macs. This is a good thing for them. Sure, they may be a little behind (like not knowing updates can be pushed out to Mac clients) but being critical won't help them learn what is possible with the Mac.

Because 0S X has been out of beta at least 5 years now and they are supposedly tech professionals who haven't checked out the competition in 5 years.

And if you read even a bit of the article, you'd note they support 10.4 AND 10.3 Macs. Which means they are NOT just checking out the hardware now after 5 years, they've already had the hardware.

And none of you know what even precipitated the comments. For all you know, some stupid reporter asked "So how are Macs different now with OS X then OS 9 of 5 years ago?"

Then again, if she said 8 years ago that macs bomb all the time, you'd be blasting her for not knowing how to set up a Mac competently, because if you know what you're doing, OS 9 is really stable.

If you're taking problems with the present OS you'd be discussing kernel panics not bombs.

But the comment wasn't with regard to the 'current' OS, it was a comparison to the previous OS.

Yet, there is that BSOD bomb which still is common with all the versions of windows, but that butters this guy's bread, so why mention that. Oh viruses, hardware incompatibility, Vista ready mislabeling, and on-and on....

Well, it's a woman, first of all. But feel free not to read, that's fine. Second, the SBOD is also a problem on Macs, and complained about just as much (except by the fanboy who pretend it's OK to just hang for a couple of minutes for no reason).

Oh, and you mention hardware incompatibility? Are you kidding? Apple supports very little hardware, so there is no concern for hardware compatibility. It so much easier when you can just make arbitrary "We're not supporting those G3 computers anymore".

Oh, and, of course, the difference is MS customers expect their hardware and software to work with new versions, and yell and scream when it doesn't. When Mac users hardware/software stops working, they just complain to the developers about lack of support. They don't dare complain that Apple just arbitrarily keeps changing its OS to make these things incompatible.

And while my Macs are very stable (although my PowerMac has the tendency to just turn off on rare occasion), I also don't recall the last BSOD I've seen at the office on all the XP boxes we have there. And they aren't completely infected with virii, malware, spyware, etc.

testudo, if you had a g3, which I doubt. You'd know it is as compatible with OSX 10.4 and various hardware out there. Mind you, it was discontinued by Apple over 4 years ago. I do have a powerbook G4 that can run most everything just fine including 10.5-It's 3 years old. I do know of recent Vista adopters who have certified machines that ran Vista so poorly that they reinstalled XP. A very common story. Can you install Vista on a wintel machine that is even 2 years old? Maybe, but I'd doubt it would do too well, if it installed at all. You must not deal with many Windows machines at your office, at mine it is a weekly event. Viruses, malware etc are not too bad-but they're there and that sucks. I too, own a thinkpad-no viruses to speak of or malware, but it is not my primary machine and it's Nortoned up. It has XP installed and is very comparable to a OS9 machine. So what I'm saying is a current XP machine is shoulder to shoulder with an OS9 Mac. As for the SBBOD (spinning beach ball of death), yes it exsists, I've had them, but to compare that to BSOD is like comparing a flat tire to running out of gas. One is system wide, the other specific to the program in use at that time with an active window. I don't know a single developer who loves to reboot their machine rather than simply restarting the program. In fact this is where OSX gets high marks in comparison to XP/Vista.

Also, your tendency to put words in poster's mouths is poor argument. Who did like the OS9 crashes-not I-though it was pretty sable. Then again, who liked the BSOD? Oh yeah-IT personnel.

Who cares what a reporter asked, this response was clued. What next, serial port problems? It is you who doesn't get it. At least you're consistent, when Macs make headway, you're there to pull half truths into the fore with the hope that someone will bite.

XP and Vista are still years behind OSX-it's a fact. No amount of MS Fanboy scat posts will change that. Apple makes a good product, they'll gain in market share. That is capitalism for you.