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Does your current school own any Macs?

Does your current school own any Macs?

  • No

    Votes: 28 27.7%

  • Yes

    Votes: 73 72.3%
  • Total voters
    101
Yep....they used to.

My elementary/middle school: yes- first the edu model of the Performa 5200 I think, or one of its descendants....then our teacher got a PM G3 (blue&white), then a PM G4 dual with studio displays, and then a PM G4 Cube.

During this time the whole computer lab went original bondi iMac. Boy was that neat. As time went on and a few needed replacing, we got some indigo blue imacs, and so on.

my later middle school was all winblows
as is my high school....but most of my photo buddies are using macs 100% of the time, and I've converted a few other people while I was at it.

As far as college goes, I'm seriously considering Dartmouth- almost every student I saw there this summer had a mac, and at least every other public computer was a mac in the library, in fact i'd say it was at least 60/40 and probably 75/25 elsewhere on campus. Lots of iMac G4s, eMacs and iMac g3s. PBs, MBs, iBooks, and MBPs all around with the students. it was beautiful.
Another serious contender is Harvard, and the two computers I saw (one public) in the admissions office were mac, and the admissions officer I was interviewed by had recently graduated and spent all 4 years with no problems on his PB.
 
Yep, there are quite a few Macs at Melbourne Uni. I'm not sure exactly how many, but my guess would be in the vicinity of a 1000 around campus (mind you there are probably 2-3000+ PCs as well). There's everything from G3 iMacs to G5 Powermacs though I'd say the majority are G4 towers and G5 iMacs.
 
My second elementary school had macs. My memory's fuzzy, but I remember there being a lot of them.

Junior high and high school had no macs.

College - Penn State - has a lot of macs. Not a majority, but pretty much every computer lab has a section devoted to about 10-20 macs. Tech support also deals with maccs.
 
the stats lab at my university (the only lab i'm ever in) is all imacs. some of the professors have macs in their offices, some have dells. all other labs on campus are dells.

i hate to say it but the stats program (spss) runs slower on the macs than it does on the pcs. i'm sure it's a matter of the mac version of the program being a few upgrades behind the pc version, but oh well. i use both.
 
my high school alone has about 60 G5 Powermacs 2.0 (last revi before Mac Pro)
20 Imac G5 Rev E
80 G3 Imacs
80 G4 Ibooks
Xserves and Xraids

Elem and middle school also have a boat load of macs
 
never seen a mac in my primary or secondary school :mad:

hopefully there'll be some in uni eh? :)
 
In my elementary school I can't recall if we had any apples or macs, if any it would have probably been an Apple IIg.

My middle school had an apple lab with a ton of Apple IIs for Oregon Trail and stuff. In the more upscale PC lab they had one brand new G3 PowerPC beige tower.

My high school just got a grant $5 million grant from Gateway right before I started in 1999 so the campus was almost exclusively PC. Some teachers used macs for their own computers in their classes, but the film class had only macs mostly teal G3 towers and a few G4 towers. Right before I graduated they got a new Quicksilver tower for the class.

My university has a mac lab in the library with mostly the G4 iMac. All the dorms use a G3 iMac as the computer for the front desk. At the end of last semester the Theatre/Film Department just got about thirty G5 towers. Other than that I don't know (Haven't been everywhere on my 30,000+ student campus).
 
Yes - all the recording studios, multimedia labs and animation studios at our college have macs. I think there is only one PC in the entire college, which is used for running a Windows only mastering application.
 
primary: the computers vitrually needed winding up to get them started

secondary: the IT teacher thought Acorns were the best computer (poor man :eek:), but they had one imac free from tesco coupons

college: only in the art dept.

university: only in the art/graphics dept. Manchester University has signed up to Dell desktops that are sloooowwwww.

I think the Mac is very much a professional's choice in the UK, education needs the cheapest stuff going
 
sb58 said:
with what we pay, Apple shouldn't need to help us out.
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its so true.. we should have some iMac or beastly Mac Pro.. but our Scholl doesn't seem to know when to buy things, as the bought iPods with-in days of the upgrade to color screens
 
Our school HAD an eMac, in the art department, which they dropped. I was the only person of the 1000 people at my school who could get the data off it without opening it up (and risking the CRT imploding). FireWire Target Disk Mode can be a lifesaver at times...
 
My old school had a Mac lab (Mac Color Classics Rofl) when I was in Grades K - 4. Then they "upgraded" to PCs with Windows ME on the. We were better off with the Color Classics
 
Elementary, middle, and high school were nothing but Macs. College, not so much. There are a few here and there, and the IT department will support Macs to an extent, but for the most part, it's all PCs, and crappy Dells at that.
 
Yep, we've got a bunch of Mac-only labs, and the main general-use lab in the library is roughly half Macs, half PCs for around 400 machines total I think. The Macs in that lab are mostly dual 2.0 GHz Power Mac G5s (as of last semester), with a few iMacs. There are also some iMac G4s around. I know where at least one cube and one B&W G3 are as well.
 
MS: Had about 20-30 Apple ][e's...lol for typing. That and maybe some Number Munchers or Oregon Trail.

HS: English writing "lab" had 20-25 of these dinosaurs, Macintosh LC 550. Notorious for the ability to crash in the middle of typing, or better yet saving.

University: 3-4 rows of 1st gen PMac 2.0G5's. Have a tendency toward corrupted plists & KPs. Hopefully (better be!) fixed by now.
 
My high school gives all students ibuok g4s. Also the labs have some powermacs for vid editing, etc. Totally apple campus. :cool:
 
There are some iMac G4's in the computer commons here at ASU. I think there are some more scattered around campus, but not many. A lot of the students have Apple Laptops though, which is awesome. My highschool had mac's, but only some of the teachers had them, and they were the older colored iMac's.
 
My high school I believe had a Mac lab for all design work.

So many mac-bashers on the annual team, it wasn't even funny. Apparently they hated the system.
 
Primary School (K-6) - Can't remember, don't think so. Pretty sure there was only one computer there.

Middle School - we don't have middle school in Australia.

High School - (7-12) - Yes, Early PPC PowerMacs and a few 68k systems, they also had a bunch of Apple //e's in the retro lab.

University - Hell yeah, lots of eMac, lots of DPG5's and 20 Quad G5's, not to mention all the staff computers.
 
No, I think my ibook maybe the first mac in my college:D
Ibook is a good tool to attract girls, everytime when I use it in library or classes there are many girls looking at me! wow cool
 
I'm in secondary school, with 1200 pupils, and we have 1 Mac. To be honest it is a joke, because hardly anyone can use it.

Our school is always going on about equal chances ans stuff, how about having equal PC's and Macs!
 
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