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March 2, 2007

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Wilkes University to go all Mac, not look back

Posted Mar. 2, ’07, 9:45 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Apple » News

Wilkes UniversityThe location: Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (which, if you must know, was named after two British MPs who supported American colonization: Smith and Jones. Okay, Wilkes and Barré. You’re no fun.) The institution: Wilkes University. The action: A campus-wide switchover from Windows PCs to Macs.

We’ve been treated over the past few years to story after story of organizations ditching what Macs they had in favor of Windows machines, so it’s nice to finally see the trend moving in the other direction. Wilkes’s transition will take the next three years, but at the end of it they’ll have a completely shiny white Mac campus. That’ll be 1700 computers at a cost of $1.4 million. Sounds pretty reasonable to me, but what do I know? Take it away, Wilkes administration:

“For 30 years Apple has been committed to education, and worked with faculty and students across the country to enhance teaching and learning,” said John Couch, Apple’s vice president of Education. “We’re thrilled that Wilkes is becoming an all-Mac campus, providing its students with access to the world’s most advanced technology and helping to ensure they graduate with 21st Century skills.”
That’s right, it’s the twenty-first century: you hear that Windows? You ain’t nothin’ but a 20th century OS.

But, as Wilkes’s vice president for finance and general counsel, Scott Byers, points out, the fact that Macs can run Windows means that they still have access to any Windows programs they need. That’s pretty much the most sensible decision I’ve seen this year. Go get ‘em, Wilkes.


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