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With all the Mac's in Charlottesville, home of UVA we still don't have an Apple Store.

Mar 21, 08 - 08:18 am Comment from: standardmess

Yes, bring an Apple store to Charlottesville!

Mar 21, 08 - 08:19 am Comment from: standardmess

Although, as an alternative, the U.Va. Student Bookstore sells and services Apple products.

Mar 21, 08 - 08:24 am Comment from: Cubert

Thank God those kids are learning and are finally getting rid of their old hokie PC's.

Mar 21, 08 - 08:24 am Comment from: Webbyswim

yes, that is frustrating. i am tired to have to lug to short pump to get my apple fix. I was wondering when ITC was going to release that report.

Mar 21, 08 - 08:26 am Comment from: Cubert

GD!!! Never post before coffee. OK. Second try.

Thank God those kids are getting rid of their cavalier attitude towards computing.

There, better.

Perhaps there'll be an Apple store in Charlottesville soon:

http://www.ifoapplestore.com/db/2008/03/18/apple-comes-calling-to-c-ville/

Chart looks like it was done in iWork...

Mar 21, 08 - 08:31 am Comment from: silverhawk

2 headlines from MacWorld UK:

"HTC Google phone named 'Dream'
HTC Android mobile phone to be called Dream"

"Dell plans iPhone killer?
Can Dell kill the iPhone without controlling the software?"

Mar 21, 08 - 08:32 am Comment from: Ampar

"Only four students reported not owning a computer . . ."

They're called "grad" students.


(And very nice, Cubert.)

Mar 21, 08 - 08:36 am Comment from: Ampar

"If Microsoft isn't worried, they should be."

PLEASE let the clueless Sweaty Bomber stay in charge as long as possible. It really is the best thing for Apple.

Mar 21, 08 - 08:38 am Comment from: Ampar

"Dell plans iPhone killer?"

Let me guess. The Dell Ditto?

Mar 21, 08 - 08:45 am Comment from: Cubert

"Let me guess. The Dell Ditto?"

No. It's the Dell Telegraph.

I'm disappointed it's not a higher number. Remember this?

http://duggmirror.com/apple/Look_at_them_apples/9489b70ab55692ffcac3ec776aa50a1f_img_6672s.jpg

Mar 21, 08 - 08:52 am Comment from: Ampar

University of Virginia Operating Systems:

Other - 2%

Philosophy majors?



"Thank God those kids are getting rid of their cavalier attitude towards computing."

Of course, it may not have been intuition but they're finally learning some class.

Mar 21, 08 - 08:56 am Comment from: HMCIV

With viruses alone, it's a no brainer. Oh and M$ will survive this Apple renaisance, even if Windows doesn't. They're a sneaky bunch.

Mar 21, 08 - 09:06 am Comment from: Travel4B

UVa is a Mac, Tech is a PC?

@Ampar

"University of Virginia Operating Systems:

Other - 2%

Philosophy majors?"


Actually, we philosophy majors use Turing Machines...

@ Sheep Register:

That picture was the best. There was seriously like 3 PCs in the room. Sweetness. I've never been in a Lecture Hall with that many laptops. Microsoft is slowly dying and it's sweet to see.

This is useless information unless one is a student or faculty member at University of Virginia. I doubt that these statistics have any generalization to the larger population of university students nationwide. I would be more interested in percentages and rates of Mac and PC use at all U.S. universities by demographics (age, gender, college, major, graduate, undergraduate, region, etc.).

Mar 21, 08 - 09:25 am Comment from: Macromancer

Approaching critical mass.!!!

Mar 21, 08 - 09:28 am Comment from: Ampar

To philosphy major:


_________________

"Microsoft is slowly dying and it's sweet to see."

I prefer quicker and painful.

Mar 21, 08 - 09:29 am Comment from: Ampar

"Approaching critical mass.!!!"


M.I.T.?

One university? Big deal.

Mar 21, 08 - 09:36 am Comment from: Macromancer

"Can Dell kill the iPhone without controlling the software?"

They apparently will just start selling hammers.

Mar 21, 08 - 09:53 am Comment from: Ampar

" . . . start selling hammers."

With Vista Ready stickers?

Mar 21, 08 - 10:03 am Comment from: shen

"University of Virginia Operating Systems:

Other - 2%

Philosophy majors?"

actually, philosophy majors tend to be prelaw, and law has a strong Mac following. the philos dept. i graduated from here in Utah was about 40% Mac laptop, 40% no laptop, 20% windows.

Mar 21, 08 - 10:17 am Comment from: MusicDoc

@ Cubert:
"Thank God those kids are learning and are finally getting rid of their old hokie PC's."

Hmmmmm.....a "hokie" little dig at Va Tech there?? LOL

Someone get on the dellaphone, quick!

embrace and extinguish.

Mar 21, 08 - 10:45 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

"Microsoft is slowly dying and it's sweet to see."

Ampar: "I prefer quicker and painful."

Personally, I like a slow, agonizing death. Seems appropriate on this particular day. †

Mar 21, 08 - 10:47 am Comment from: Dude

Dolita....

Are you that thick that you can't extrapolate the significance of this???

I work in the geology department at Caltech and have yet to see someone with a computer running Vista. A good amount of students, staff and faculty are running OS X but as far as campus I'm not sure of the percent that's running OS X. I've talked to one of our computer tech guys and for the most part the campus is steering clear of Vista. Some of the research equipment in our labs are old and still in use everyday and are running Windows 98 and Windows NT.

Mar 21, 08 - 11:02 am Comment from: Ampar

To C1: "Personally, I like a slow, agonizing death."

You nailed that one. I wouldn't mind that but they need to be rendered harmless first.


To Dude: I love rhetorical questions!

Mar 21, 08 - 11:04 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Ampar

True. They might crawl back out from under that rock with a vengeance.

Hum! Universities are supposed to generate smart and self-critic people.
• 60% vista overlaps this evidence with a thick blanket of doubt
• Only 26% of smartness is a BAD result for such a place

This must change till the end of this year... otherwise America will be lobotomized!

UVa is a Mac, Tech is a PC?

Travel4B - ahh, how soon we forget...

http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/vatech2/

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/10/60821

Also - check out these photos of the Math Emporium.

http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=11940&bhcp=1

(Note: these photos do not do the room justice - one needs a wide angle lens to capture all of the machines. There are hundreds in there. 500 machines if I remember correctly.)

Peace.

MW - north. As in this is a good article about our friends up north.

Mar 21, 08 - 12:15 pm Comment from: Ampar

" . . . otherwise America will be lobotomized!"

Again?

Mar 21, 08 - 12:41 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Ampar
"Again?"

It's only happened 43 times.

Ah, the youth of today.
I blame the influence of comic books.

Mar 21, 08 - 01:04 pm Comment from: Ampar

C1: But the last one refuses to give us anaesthesia or lubrication.

Mar 21, 08 - 01:37 pm Comment from: Anonymous©

26% seems awfully low compared to other more enlightened schools.

Mar 21, 08 - 01:45 pm Comment from: Zeke

George Fox University, Oregon:

Every incoming freshman gets to choose either a Mac or a Windows laptop to keep:

2005-2006 <10% chose Mac
2006-2007 20% chose Mac
2007-2008 70% chose Mac
2008-2009 100% Mac (Windows will no longer be offered as a choice.)

Game over.

Mar 21, 08 - 02:26 pm Comment from: cuz i'm the taxman

"True. They might crawl back out from under that rock with a vengeance."

I felt like death warmed over when using Windows. Like being stabbed in the ribs. Thank god I have forsaken that OS for the Jesus phone and my spankin' new Macbook, the nice clean white one. Cleanliness is next to...you know.

Mar 21, 08 - 04:18 pm Comment from: qka

Meanwhile, here at the Luddite Institute of Technology, our IT department works to actively thwart Mac users.

Not that you don't hear the distinctive Mac startup chime with some frequency in the library!

Mar 21, 08 - 05:24 pm Comment from: R

I notice a new student in my classes with a mac nearly every other week. It's been astonishing in the last year or two how many more than have been added to the ranks.

The funny thing to watch is how many of them become zealots. They take a big gulp of kool-aid, it seems. Never mind the iPhone fans. In some ways, they've been even worse. I have a number of iPhone users in my classes and they're Mac-less (for now). You'd think they were weened on a Quadra or something.

Mar 21, 08 - 05:44 pm Comment from: Ampar

". . . at the Luddite Institute of Technology, our IT department . . ."

I love the concept of actually having an IT department at the "Luddite Institute"! Very nice self-referential contradiction!

Mar 21, 08 - 10:53 pm Comment from: Roberto

To R:
Sir, I'll have you know that Iwas weaned (sic)on a Quadra; a Quadra 700 to be precise. I still have it; it still boots up in Mac OS 8.5. Upgraded from its 68040 to a PowerPC 80 ghz. Slow to start up but still usable.

@ CrissyOne-
Thanks for remembering my Re-Birth day. But, I've always wondered ... How come I don't get gifts again? I mean Come On! Dude! That's at least worth a few gifts!

To all: While I'm in town just a reminder, "Don't forget to love your enemies!"