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Ärende: Students are Mac-in' it
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From: mike <mike@barkto.com>


http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/10/12/arts/16162.shtml

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  Dude, you're getting a Dell! Well ... maybe not any more. According to
the Office of Information Technology (OIT), 45 percent of computers purchased
this year were Macs, more than in any previous year. In 2003, when this year's
seniors arrived on campus, just 15 percent of them chose Macs. The next year, a
quarter of incoming freshmen did, and the year after that, 38 percent. These
statistics aren't comprehensive, because some students choose not to buy their
computers through OIT. Nonetheless, the upward trend is real. Macs are where
it's at.

    The upswing is not limited only to students. "A relatively high
percentage of faculty use Macs," said Steven Sather of OIT. "And that
percentage has also increased over the past couple years." Many faculty members
in the Engineering School have adopted Macs despite the fact that some
engineering software programs only run on Windows.

    The popularity of Apples on campus might seem surprising,
considering that Apple holds only 4.8 percent of the U.S. market share,
according to the July 2006 issue of MacWorld magazine. This figure has risen 16
percent over the past year but remains dwarfed by Dell's 32 percent of the
market share.

    Why is it that Macs have recently become popular and PCs less so
among Princeton students? One possibility is the comparative reliability of the
systems. In the freshman issue of The Daily Princetonian this year, Avi
Flamholz '07 explained some of the advantages and disadvantages of Macs and
PCs. "Windows is plagued by malware, which is software designed to infiltrate
or damage your computer," he said, whereas, "there is almost no malware in the
Mac universe." Even though more software is available for Windows, Flamholz
wrote, "there is good software for the Mac that does pretty much anything you
would want to do." In recent years, it may be this malware that has turned many
students away from PCs.

    Mac converts Andres Moreno '10 and Katherine Sanden '09 cited
earlier PC and Windows problems as a significant motivation for the switch.
Both of them had a Windows machine that performed slowly and had been subject
to several viruses and spyware programs. Manuela Raunig-Berho '10 has not had
problems with her current Dell laptop but she admitted that her family had a PC
at home that did not perform well....
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