Apple Education Turnaround?

Ha, sales to higher education are doing good? Wonder if VT had anything to do with that!! :p

Originally posted by LimeLite
Ha, sales to higher education are doing good? Wonder if VT had anything to do with that!! :p

The VT sale is too recent to have had an effect. The article (if you read it :) ) details Apple selling laptops and ipods to incoming college students.

arn

Around here, there is probably a 50:50 ratio between Mac and PC -- but most PC users own an iPod anyway. :)

Originally posted by arn
The VT sale is too recent to have had an effect. The article (if you read it :) ) details Apple selling laptops and ipods to incoming college students.

That's me.

*raises my hand*

Yup. I saved Apple.

Thank me later ;)

I'd like to see such mac friendly universities. At the student computing center on campus there is one table with maybe a dozen imacs on it while the rest of the room is filled with different dimensions of Dells. In the architecture lab too (thought this makes a little more sense because of the CAD software) there are 2 powermacs surrounded by other Dells. I thought there'd be more need with all the Photoshopping and Illustratoring that might need to be done but I guess the administrators feel differently . . . I just wish they'd 'think different'ly.

My 2 cents.

Originally posted by arn
The VT sale is too recent to have had an effect. The article (if you read it :) ) details Apple selling laptops and ipods to incoming college students.

arn

It was more of a joke, but good to know Arn. Maybe the VT sale will keep the trend up for the next batch of results?

Frankly I think that the whole switch from OS9 to OSX was a major reason a lot of schools opted away from Apple over the last couple of years. Now that things have settled down again, and a lot of the software everyone needed has migrated to OSX and it has a proven record as a really enjoyable and powerful OS to use, many of the people who were hesitant will now be more receptive to returning. Of course Apple has to make up a whole lot of lost ground, but their transition to a modern OS is basically over. The Wintel world will have to make a similar leap at some point, and it won't be pleasant for them either.

My campus (University of Wisconsin - Stout) has started requiring freshmen to rent laptops from the university - mostly Compaq :( but there are 3 majors that get Apple iBooks or PowerBooks. The computer lab for my major is equipped with 6 G5s, a mess of quicksilvers, and a row of iMacs. Our lab (Graphic Communications Management) is better and more up to date than the design and multimedia labs on campus :) My major is definitely Mac-friendly..the campus has some very anti-Mac pockets though

Originally posted by mactastic
Frankly I think that the whole switch from OS9 to OSX was a major reason a lot of schools opted away from Apple over the last couple of years. Now that things have settled down again, and a lot of the software everyone needed has migrated to OSX and it has a proven record as a really enjoyable and powerful OS to use, many of the people who were hesitant will now be more receptive to returning. Of course Apple has to make up a whole lot of lost ground, but their transition to a modern OS is basically over. The Wintel world will have to make a similar leap at some point, and it won't be pleasant for them either.

You people make me laugh so hard. Windows XP/2003/Longhorn is modern. MS had a 32-bit preemptive multitasking OS for over 5 years before Apple did. Apple needed a modern OS. UNIX had those powers, so they adopted UNIX by buying out NeXT.

Windows on the other hand has all those features. Just because its not UNIX doesn't mean its not modern. Furthermore, Windows is just as stable as UNIX if you use certified drivers. Due to the number of hardware vendors for Windows, most drivers aren't certified or run thru ample testing. Its rarely Windows that causes a bluescreen, rather poorly written vendors from 3rd party companies.

On that note....after seeing Longhorn betas I may never upgrade....the UI is getting worse, not better. However, I will not stand down from critisism of comments stating that the Wintel world has an outdated OS.

As long as it's not open source it's out dated in my book.

MS is going for more Fisher Price look will end up putting off alot of it's older users. I hate Xp but W2K is ok..not sure about the new 2003 edition since I haven't used it.