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June 20, 2007
Another university moves to Macs
Posted Jun. 20, ’07, 4:10 PM PT by Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen
Category | Apple » News
Following in the footsteps of Wilkes University, St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada, is dumping all of their Windows machines and transitioning over to shiny new Macs.
Preparing for the upcoming school year, the university has ordered as much as 350 new Macs, mostly iMacs for the labs and MacBooks for the staff. Better yet, they’re recommending students to buy Macs too.
“This is as good as it gets in personal computing,” says Duncan Macpherson, Chief Technology Officer at StFX. “The university strives to provide our students and faculty with the best environment for learning, and the Mac’s performance and innovation is an important part of this mission.”It’s nice to see Apple getting back some the momentum in education it lost a few years ago. We can only hope that momentum gets stronger.
[via MacNN]
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A correction. StFX University is NOT "dumping all of their Windows machines" to replace them with Macs. This small group of 350 machines complements the existing Windows environment - which I very much doubt is going to change radically in the direction of Macs, not for students, faculty, nor staff.
More Universities will soon be added to the roll; if this experience of vista is anything to go by
http://boards.fool.com/message.asp?mid=25601692