Student users also like the Mac’s near-immunity to PC-type viruses and spyware, and the fact that the latest Macs can run the Windows operating system along with Mac OS X courtesy of the machines’ PC-compatible Intel processors.Īpple, which once seemed to fumble this key educational market after dominating it in the early 1990s, got its act together in recent years, according to college administrators interviewed for this article. Apple not only makes the popular brand of portable music and video players, but its ubiquitous iTunes software is innately linked to the iPod. This is said to be fueled in large part by iPod fever among students. “In large labs and computer centers, Windows computers are preferred by the majority of students.”īut recent Mac growth on campuses elsewhere in the state has dramatically outpaced Mac growth in the general population. John’s, noting that most software used in classes is Windows-based.Īt Minnesota State University (Mankato), “we’ve had to reduce the amount of Macintosh computers” installed for student use “because they tend to sit unused,” said Bryan Schneider, director of technical services. “We’re a PC campus,” said James Koenig, director of information-technology services at St. John’s University in Collegeville, where students can bring any computer they like, the portion of Mac users last year hovered at about 6 percent, little higher than the Mac-use percentage in the general population.
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