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How To Pick A University (12/14/00)
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We all know Apple's been taking a beating in the education sector for a while, now. Just recently Steve Jobs himself finally admitted that Apple slipped into the number two slot, losing out to Dell. Granted, being in second place isn't exactly the end of the world, but it does show that Apple is losing its hold on an important market-- and with every story about flat Mac sales and schools "standardizing" on Wintel, the outlook for any resurgence for Apple in education seems bleaker.
Still, every once in a while a tidbit floats through the ether that gives us hope. Take, for example, the article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that we found while cruising MacNN; reportedly the University of Wisconsin-Stout is going to require all of its incoming freshmen to own laptops starting in the fall of 2002. That in itself isn't particularly inspiring (though it's nice to see the march of progress, we suppose). The nifty bit is that "in the pilot program, Apple and Macintosh laptops are being used because those are the computers most often used in the printing industry." (Wow, both Apple and Macintosh laptops? Even better!)
Don't get too excited about this, because once the program gets into full swing and laptops are required campus-wide, "students will be able to use either the Mac/Apple platform or Windows-based laptops." So it's not like the school's going all-Mac or anything, but even so, these days we're starting to consider even the choice of being able to use a Mac to be an ever-rarer luxury. And if there are any of you out there planning on going off to college in a couple of years, maybe you should consider UW-Stout-- if for no other reason than being able to score a free iBook from your parents.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 12/14/00 episode: December 14, 2000: There may or may not be another public beta in the works, but the only non-public beta update to Mac OS X so far is less than enthralling. Meanwhile, the entire incoming Class of 2006 at the University of Wisconsin-Stout will be armed with PowerBooks and iBooks, and another movie is in the works which features Bill Gates getting shot and killed...
Other scenes from that episode: 2741: Hey, Progress Is Relative (12/14/00) Those of you who plunked down thirty smackers for the privilege of testing the Mac OS X public beta lo those many moons ago may be wondering just how much progress Apple has made on polishing that beta into a 1.0 release... 2743: Big-Screen Bill-Kill, Take 2 (12/14/00) Far be it from us to wish harm on any living creature, no matter how much personal satisfaction it might give us. Plus there's that whole sticky issue of court costs, jail time, etc., and our social calendars are way too full to accommodate a few consecutive life sentences right now...
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