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Do you have Macs at your school?

Do you have Macs at your school?

  • Yes

    Votes: 43 61.4%

  • No

    Votes: 27 38.6%
  • Total voters
    70
  • Poll closed .
My high school is mostly PCs and even in the multimedia arts and design academy I am in is just PCs. We use Photoshop, Flash and Premier. There are some Macs in the school news-bulletin room for like FCP but that is all.

High School was the first time I ever used a PC because my private elementary and middle schools were both all Macs.
 
The only Mac's in my high school, and they aren't even school computers:



The above computers are, from left to right, our TV Class/Theatre Instructor's PowerBook G4, MR user SuperCompu2's PowerBook G4, and my MacBook Pro. Across the other side of this room is the only other school owned Apple - a 20" Al iMac that was ordered for the TV Production course.

Anyway, it's cool to have an all Aluminum workforce going at some hardcore editing/rendering/etc!
 
Yes. I'd say about 60-75 in my high school. In 2005 the school system got a lease from Apple. All of the teachers and administrators got iBook G4s. Before that, the libraries got iMac G3s. And before that, the school got Power Mac 5200s when those were old! My band teacher just got two intel Al iMacs. I wanted to see them, but they were locked up. There's also a PowerMac g4 and a b&w G3 and a bunch of eMacs in the keyboarding/webpage class. And did I mention there were iBook carts for classrooms? And this is in a town of 7500.
 
no, and it's a shame.. and in the lessons in technologic education, we only get lessons in pc, like mac doesn't exist.. :(
 
The Graphics department in the college where I taught (I'm now retired) had 15 eMac's and 70 G5 Power mac's, The rest of the college departments were all Dell PC's (hundreds and hundreds of the daft machines)
 
600+ ibooks/powerbooks/macbooks for every teacher
8+ classrooms with 30-40 intel imacs
2 resource centers with 30+ powermac g5's each
10+ mobile carts w/ 20-25 macbooks/powerbooks each
 
lu0s3r322 said:
600+ ibooks/powerbooks/macbooks for every teacher
8+ classrooms with 30-40 intel imacs
2 resource centers with 30+ powermac g5's each
10+ mobile carts w/ 20-25 macbooks/powerbooks each
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wow, thats alot of hardware....

Private school, or a hell of a government grant??
 
1:1 student/faculty laptop program with ThinkPad R50e, R51, R61, and Z60t laptops running SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (licensing costs less than Windows). Students don't pay for the laptops, as they have to give them back at the end of the year. They're also testing 6 X60 tablets, which are nice for their tablet features but they fresh boot with over 80 processes running because of Lenovo's OEM version of Windows.

The school has a Mac lab with 7 iMac G4s and a PowerMac G3 for scanning and iMovie. There are two iBook G4s and two TiBooks but they're never used. Some students choose to buy their own Macs to use instead of the school laptops, though. I think people get the feeling that they're fighting against Linux, while us Mac users happily get work done (especially considering their boot is way over a minute, compared to a few seconds to resume from sleep for the Macs). There's a lot of support issues that I feel would not exist with Macs.
 
There's a shiny new Dell in every classroom, and about 60 of them in the library; half with Win2000, and half with WinXP. I believe the art department had some PowerMac G3's and G4's, but I'm not sure if they still have them. As a freshman, you get screwed with the electives, so I didn't have any art classes this year, but I was in the art building yesterday and I saw a lot of Dells and no Macs.

It's funny; my middle school had these Toshiba laptops from about 1998, and around 2005 they were planning on replacing them, and I urged my computer teacher to buy Macs, but they of course bought Dells instead. He left the school a year later, and he's now teaching at a school up at Boulder with Macs, and he was telling me when he came back as a substitute how much he loves Macs now and wished that he listened to me. :rolleyes: What's also funny is that the guy who replaced him was a hardcore Mac user and seemed very annoyed with the new purchase.
 
Couple hundred at my high school. Pretty much every school around here has Macs. Though recently one lab at my school got a few Thinclient PCs. I have a great urge to destroy them.
 
My school almost went thin, using Citrix servers for access. Now we just use Citrix servers for times when people would rather use MS Office over OpenOffice, or need to use InDesign or Photoshop (over GIMP).
 
My school's artroom (which was my homeroom last year) is the only room in the school with Macs. There are only two- one iMac G5 (with no iSight) and an iMac G3 DV.

A computer room off the artroom had a mix of eMacs, iMac G3's and iMac G4's, and unfortunately, they have all been replaced by HP desktops, because students are finding Macs hard to use. I mean, with a typical class of 30 students, on average, just me and 2 others would own a Mac.:(
 
My college just bought new 24" Aluminum iMacs to replace all of the G5 towers in the Student Computer Center. There's a bunch of 24" iMacs in the Library too
 
I'm on my PowerBook (pictured above in the 3 laptop lineup) right now in a study, running on open WiFi.

It's a nice luxury, sadly only a very few use Macs here. I've converted about 4 people here but the majority are still slaves to the XP workstations.
 
we've done pretty well for macs at my college :)

In the graphic design sweet (where i spend most of my time) we have 8 eMacs, 1 G3 tower, two G4 towers and a G5 pro with a 20" Apple Display. Hopefully we will get the new imacs in here soon!

Then in the music suite we just got 10 new 20" imacs running leopard and a new mac pro with two 20" displays.
 
The computer class I'm in now here at UCF has us all using Dell's running Vista. We are required to do all of our projects in MS Office 2007. We cannot use an older version and we cannot use any other program. Period.

So I do the work in OpenOffice and go to a computer lab to re-open, check to make sure it all works fine, then save it using Office 2007 to email to the instructor from there.

I don't believe any of the labs I have seen use Macs, except one place where you pay touse the computer....they have Mac's. :)
 
Oooo!!! I almost forgot! My sophomore biology teacher had the original Apple computer in the classroom. That was 3.5 years ago tho - I wonder if he took it with him when he retired.
 
My high school uses all IBMs running XP. Most of our computer teachers teach that Windows is the only thing in the world. I hate it, it should be more diversified. People should learn how to use both instead of acting like Windows is the only thing available. They're the same about IE too. They act like it IS the internet.
 
bjett92 said:
My high school uses all IBMs running XP. Most of our computer teachers teach that Windows is the only thing in the world. I hate it, it should be more diversified. People should learn how to use both instead of acting like Windows is the only thing available. They're the same about IE too. They act like it IS the internet.
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Then say about Safari,Firefox,and Mac OS X
 
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