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How many Macs are in your school?

I'm working on setting up some for my school. As of now, here's what my plan includes:

• Six PowerMac G4's (800MHz - 1GHz models) - 2 in each art room (so 4); one in the music office; and one in the theater.
• Two Intel iMac 17" machines, one for each art room.
• 30 eMacs for the one of the computer labs I'm working on getting renovated. Wireless print server and all.
• Two MacBooks (when released) for the A/V Department. This way, the school won't have to rely on my PowerBook anytime we need a presentation or other important task that requires a not crappy computer.


We have potentially around $15,000 to spend. The G4s (along with 17" Apple Studio Displays) and eMacs I can get donated from a local college we have a partnership with. So the MacBooks and iMacs would run us about $10K, and then we'd need some good printers and maybe a nice scanner. I can easily find a way to spend $5,000, so that won't be an issue. :D
 
My school only used macs, we had 2 full rooms of them, then 1 in every other classroom. It was that school that got me into macs :) My college i'm at now has a mac room and uses macs in the video editing suite (i'm doing a media course). :)
 
I think there are about six. I've never bothered to count since I'm the only one that ever uses them.

They're 17" iMac G5s, I believe. Although they are planning on buying some CoreDuos now that Apple Remote Desktop is out as a universal application and after CS3 is released.
 
we have a mac lab with about 15 i/e macs, and about 10 people have laptops
 
At my school they believe macs should only be used for graphics
one classroom with 30 imac g4s
digital project lab with 1 imac g4 and 6 powermac g4s
another small lab with a couple of imac g4s
everything else is hp and a couple of suns
 
Saddleworth School (no longer attending);
Every single computer was an iMac. 2 giant computer suites, 3-4 smaller ones. hundreds. At least when I left.

Tameside College's "art" building;
1 PowerMac G5
1 xServe something
many, MANY eMacs.
old macs dotted around the place

City College Manchester;
Suite full of iBooks and PowerBooks

Manchester Met uni;
many iMac G5's (though I've yet to use a computer there :D )
 
2 G4s (the 3rd broke last year) in open-for-students computer rooms in the complex i'm around
(compared to around 14-16 rooms with roughly 18-25 dell/compaqs each)

perhaps they have some more in the other buildings but they normally get the older ones
 
Brunel University has....

Roughly 30 Dual 1.8G5 with 17' Acrylic screens
about 25 Dual G4 (mirror door?) with funky looking 17s from somewhere (probably Tottenham Court Road!!)
And a further 2 for the Departmental staff who decided to open & run the money-making Multimedia Department within Brunel.

For all those concerned - there's a leak that the Uni is investing in a Design Studio when the Intel PM's come out. I'v eseen the room its going in (I was taught COntrol there not too long ago) they gonna fit at least 40 depending on the screens they use.

Brunel University
 
1979-1981..junior college..no apples
1982-85..cal poly..no apples or macs
1985-87..sonoma state..no macs
1990-92..junior college..thirty or so macs in school's computer lab..yes, finally!
1993-95..golden gate univ..no macs
1995-98..graduate school..no macs
1999-present..junior college...thiry or so macs replaced by dells, but graphic designer only classes have 25 G4 power macs but students are already mac users so there is no chance to spread the word since those macs are not for the general college population

so if i really wanted an apple or mac fix over the last 27 years in the college environment, i would have to buy my own i most circumstances

and i can't believe that here in central and northern california, so close to apple inc, that PCs are the monopoly
 
0. I take my iBook there sometimes, so for brief, fleeting moments, the school has 1 Mac. :p
 
max_altitude said:
My high school was the same. All crappy PCs. When I'd bring my PB in I'd get so many of the usual ignorant Apple comments because everyone was so clueless.

Primary school had Macs and Acorns up until my last year there when they started getting PCs.
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Exactly the same as me, except for the "Acorns". I get the ignorant comments with my Mini (Does it work with our monitors? Can it connect to the internet? and (my favorite) Does it have a CD Drive?)

Our PCs are still measured in MHz, have 128 MB (or less) of RAM, and 10 (not 10/100) ethernet.
 
High school: when I started there was a lab of PowerMacs and an all-in-one PowerMac in every classroom. By the time I left, the number of Macs was reduced to a handful scattered about.

Junior college: There was about 20 in one of the labs. Everything else was PC-based.

UC Berkeley: Macs. All. Over. The. Place. It's very cool. :cool:
 
me_94501 said:
High school: when I started there was a lab of PowerMacs and an all-in-one PowerMac in every classroom. By the time I left, the number of Macs was reduced to a handful scattered about.

Junior college: There was about 20 in one of the labs. Everything else was PC-based.

UC Berkeley: Macs. All. Over. The. Place. It's very cool. :cool:
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what is the ratio, in your best guess, of macs to pcs for the cal students?
 
We have a library full of eMacs, every teacher has an iBook, our video studio has a 17" PowerBook, an iBook, a few cubes, one PowerMac G4, 15 eMacs, and an iMac Core Duo. The principal has a PowerMac G5 with a 20" ACD.

We got PowerSchool last year so they got a room full of XServes and PowerMacs to the IT department also.
 
In my current school 0.

I remember in my elementary school though there must have been well over a hundred. They had two labs full of them, each class had one or two and the library had. They were all G3 iMacs.
 
This is going back a while so things hopefully have been upgraded by now.

My jr/sr high school had a "learning lab" with about 20 LC 545's and a Power mac G3 as a server. Then the photo/graphic design lab had about 20 eMacs, most of the offices had LC 545's too.

The elementery school had all LC 545's even in the offices.

The business computer lab was all PC about 40. Our business teacher/IT guy never networked any of the labs together so he had manually create user accounts for each student in each computer lab. :eek:

What really made me laugh was the business computer lab (where we "learned" office, basic HTML, etc) was execlusivly PC. Yet most all the schools offices ran macs. How's that for setting an example. :confused:
 
jefhatfield said:
1979-1981..junior college..no apples
1982-85..cal poly..no apples or macs
1985-87..sonoma state..no macs
1990-92..junior college..thirty or so macs in school's computer lab..yes, finally!
1993-95..golden gate univ..no macs
1995-98..graduate school..no macs
1999-present..junior college...thiry or so macs replaced by dells, but graphic designer only classes have 25 G4 power macs but students are already mac users so there is no chance to spread the word since those macs are not for the general college population

so if i really wanted an apple or mac fix over the last 27 years in the college environment, i would have to buy my own i most circumstances

and i can't believe that here in central and northern california, so close to apple inc, that PCs are the monopoly
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Probably varied and various reasons, but one constant seems to be the resident IT's mindset (and accompanying committee(s)). If they're PC and Windows brainwashed and worse, yet, Dellards, it's an uphill climb. It would seem an IT should be as open minded as possible, but the ones I know I would classify as .....um how does one say this kindly? Maybe in Spanish, "embeciles" sounds softer. :)
 
Currently, seven:

3 iMac G5's which belong to the CIT department. They use them to teach graphics design courses. They'll probably be ordering some more come July.

The others are all in some way "mine" (I work for the school):
1 iMac G5 which resides in my office.
1 PowerMac DP G5 which resides in my other office.
1 Xserve DP G5 which is used for QuickTime streaming services (I take care of it)
1 PowerBook G4 12" which I carry around with me everywhere, hopefully soon to be replaced with a shiny new MacBook :eek:

Should also be ordering a new iMac DuoCore for our Marketing person downstairs soon, since she's had it with her POS Dell.

Not too shabby really, considering before I started working there, there were no Macs, and half the people in my department are Mac bigots...my evil plan is working ;)
 
Hmm.. 4 eMac's or so running anything from Jaguar to Panther, and 1 iBook. My old elementary was trash, we had ALL PC's.. and to make things worse, they were running Win95 with ~100mHz processors. We even 'valued' a few 3.1 machines. :eek:
 
We have a lot actually our whole Image Arts building uses them, the 4th year students have their own specific lab that apparently has all high end G4's with the big ass Apple Displays. I can't get in there so I can't confirm it, but I know tons of ppl in the program and they said they love it.
 
All of my school's computers run Windows 95 Beta 1, and Windows 95 Beta 1 ONLY. They are down all of the time. I told them they should get a Mac, but they all disagreed. They are trying to fix the WinPuters now and they have been down for almost a week. Serves them right. ;)
 
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