At Oklahoma Christian University this summer, all faculty and all new students attending New Student Orientations will be issued new Apple MacBooks. Current students also will be given the opportunity to trade in their Windows PC laptop for an Apple MacBook. This MacBook mobile learning initiative and the reliable campus-wide wireless infrastructure will allow OC to continue to provide opportunities for anytime, anywhere access to media-rich distributed course content.
In addition to the Apple MacBooks, the University will offer students an option of either an Apple iPhone or iPod touch. The University is providing this option with the understanding that some students will not want to activate the iPhone with the associated service contract and costs, while others will prefer the iPhone and the added capabilities. The student will be responsible for the activation of the iPhone with the service provider.
More info here.
MacDailyNews Take: Oklahoma Christian University gives students opportunity, indeed.
Holy crap. Awesome.
Incredible! Kids these days are so lucky!! I wish all this great tech was around when I was in high school/college, and that was just a decade ago!
I’m not christian, but if they are going to hand out the “new” testament along with a companion version, I’m there.
Minnesota State University Mankato mandates all business school students have to purchase a Dell lap top with Vista. Can’t have a MPB with bootcamp. Sucks.
Oklahoma Christian University gives students opportunity to trade in Windows PCs for Apple Macs
Oh Jesus NO!!!!!
Good thinking!
But still..
Down OCU
Go
Rock Chalk Jayhawk
KU
Praise the Lord
It’s a miracle
They have seen the light
God works in mysterious ways
I prefer a good Catfight Gangbang instead.
Is that offered as a course at this University?
@Man’s man
No but PainGate will turn the hardest Christian into a raving perv.
Some institution of higher learning. How the hell are these kids going to be prepared for the REAL WORLD? Just the other day I made a few “Remember to Flush” signs for the stalls in the men’s bathroom on the second floor (accounting and finance). I did it in Microsoft Word on my Dell. Arial Black, thank you. To give you MAC dorks an idea how versatile Windows PC’s are I could have done it in Microsoft Powerpoint too.
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Under the technology link of the OCU page it says that Leopard contains “Bootpicker” that allows you to boot up under OSX or Vista. I think it’s really called Boot Camp. Boot Camp, people, not Bootpicker.
I think it might be a little embarrassing if someone tried to pick their boot in public at school.
Now THAT is what I called “enlightened.”
@ZT
Holy Cow, I hope you made some “remember to wash your hands” signs for your accounting zombie friends.
How about another sign. “PC for sale”
Now this is the type of conversion I can live with.
@halhiker
Bootpicker is a utility from Mike Bombich….
http://www.bombich.com/software/bootpicker.html
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition.
Oklahoma is OK!
Why the US is ahead of the rest of the world. Don’t care what anyone says. And I’m European.
I’m a pean too.
Who wouldn’t trade in the anti-Christ for the Kingdom on Earth?
You say kids are lucky these days, I say kids are paying several times the tuition for college than even 15 years ago, and that’s even adjusted for inflation.
Schools started with slates, moved to PCs then laptops, now back to electronic slates. Cool transition!
Wow! That must cost them a pretty penny.
@silverhawk,
I wonder what they would do if you showed up with one on the first day of class? Kick you out? What professors are the “police” on this policy?
Zune Tang, not to wax didactic but…
Universities are for educating for the future.
Vista is so last millennia. In ten years, maybe five years, the XP and Vista guys will be the old codgers tall-tale-ing about “How it was in the good ol’ days”
And what is up with the “Conservative schools giving mac preference and the Lib schools mandating Vista… Makes one wonder who the bright ones are. lol
@ freefromdesign
If legislators weren’t bent on cutting taxes no matter what, then the states wouldn’t have had to cut their support of higher ed to 50% of what it was 15 years ago. And tuition wouldn’t have had to go up to replace those dollars…
We can’t have it both ways: more services and lower taxes. Since lower taxes wins votes and parents don’t see the trade (because the percentage of higher ed cost supported by the state isn’t ‘news’), take a wild guess at the direction tuition is going to go next year.