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How many Macs are in your school?

I think there is one white Macbook, besides my Blackbook. The choir director has it. Or it at least looks like a Mac. :p My school has this program to get 40 or so new Dells every year in the main computer lab, and move the rest to the second and third computer labs. When I'm graphics intern next term, I'm gonna talk to the Wed and Graphics advisor (who loves Macs, but said theres too steep a learning curve to the rest of the people who have never used a Mac) and see what we can do about that. I'm already certain Im NOT working on an Vista PC for graphics. Screw that.
 
Not so much a school but my university has three campuses. Main one being mainly PC orientated, but the campus I go to is for the design, arts, media etc departments and we just have Macs. Too many to count really, but nearly every lecture room has them so 30+ iMacs in each room, and MacBook Pros being used by lecturers or for projections for presentations.
 
Two. My Macbook Pro and someone in the year above me's macbook.
We have Stone Computers they are awful. The technicians decided to save £2 per machine by having 256mb ram instead of 512mb, this is running XP.

We also have 2 rooms of Fujitsu Siemans computers. In the graphics room we have some stone computers with C2D and 1gb ram. Art also has these.

The technicians know nothing about macs except you can get the WPA key back out of it if you go into keychain access and this is a reason not to set my laptop up on wifi. I am sure it would be a big problem if anyone knew the wifi key, honest.

I don't know why they are so protective about the wifi key, its only the same as getting ethernet. With ethernet I can get internet if i know the proxy settings, which i do, it's 10mb dedicated line shared through out the school which is awful (~200 desktops +150 laptops) and read only access to the 'pupil drive' which is a that teacher can put work for students on, but seen as the techies are arrogant and don't like to explain anything this is a wasted resource..
 
In the school where I teach we have 2 iMac G3's. They are in my classroom because they were going to dump them out. Everything else is PC. I remember when schools were full of Apple computers. Today it is very difficult to find an Apple only school. I have a Shuttle PC on my desk. Our school is pretty much all Shuttle desktops and Dell notebooks. The Shuttles have been really reliable and don't take up a lot of room. Our tech coordinator is pretty high on them.

http://us.shuttle.com/
 
My college...

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As for my high school, they have a lab full of eMac's, and replaced one lab full of old Dell's with iMac's. Of course they decided to do this the year AFTER I graduated.
 
we have a room full of 50 white imacs with isights at my university. not sure which ones they are as i cant login on them :(. only for computer science students and i do a bachelor of science... hmm i just got an idea haha
 
Being a posh town, the university here is rather inundated with Macs. The CS building has 1x Windows lab (90-100x machines), 1x Linux lab (30x machines) & 1x Mac lab (~50x white iMacs). Around the rest of the uni, all of the lecture theatres run 2000 for the projection machines, but loads of offices have Macs in them from choice of the people working in them.
 
Kashchei said:
What is considered a post university town: Oxford, Cambridge or Hull? Sorry to paraphrase Blackadder, but I just couldn't resist!
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St Andrews. Not quite as bad as Cambridge (where my sister is studying) but still full of rich-kid American students who think it's 'quaint' & don't forget all the golfers...
 
hmm...here in the School of Music at UMiami...there are 10 white iMac C2Ds in the music library, two keyboard labs that have either iMacs or Power Mac G5s in them (I haven't been in there at all), and most of the professors (at least in the jazz department) have Macs as well.

I'm definitely in a good place. :) At the school where I taught (and am going back to next year after I finish my masters), it's a completely Dell/Windows school. Booooooooo...
 
In my middle school, we are around 65% HP thin clients, 35% iMacs.

The iMacs are a mix of G3s, G5s, and one or two Core 2 Duos. In some little 6th grade classroom, for some reason, there are 3 brand spankin' new Alu iMacs. The teachers get 400MHz and 500MHz Indigo and Snow iMacs, with 256MB RAM, and Tiger, except for my Social Studies teacher, who uses a typewriter...

Unfortunately, the classroom iMacs are so desperately in need of repair, it's heartbreaking. They run At Ease with Panels on 64MB RAM in OS 9, have graffiti all over them, and automatically connect to a WS2k3 server. You can't do ANYTHING in OS 9.

I am gonna probably bring an ol' Bondi and a Wallstreet over to ease the situation, at least in my science classroom.

OH! I forgot! The art room as a Dual 500MHz G4, and the old school server (Quicksilver, dual 800MHz) is set up in the band room.

Anyone else think we need to hire tech "specialists" who actually KNOW what they're doing? It's been like this in every school I've been to around here. On the other hand, this is one of the poorest schools for miles around.
 
Abercrombieboy said:
Today it is very difficult to find an Apple only school.
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Not around here in central Illinois. Most schools are primarily Mac. As a matter of fact one school down the street that went PC a few years ago is switching BACK because of all the nightmares running a PC shop.
As for my school, the new campus is going up, and it will add about 800 more macs for the district.
 
well Ai York has a bunch of Mac labs, plus I know that all us Graphic Design students have to have MacBooks or MacBook Pros since we have a laptop requirement.

So...That's a whole lotta Mac.
 
All the photography lot got a whole department kitted out with ~70 macs commonly known as "The Orchard" :rolleyes:
Whereas the rest of us got bugger all.
Link.
It was featured on the Apple site too, somewhere. Hot news I believe.
 
my school has 1 mac. it's a (I think) G4 eMac thing. It's currently sitting in the corner of the computer centre, and it lacks a mouse.

rare mac know-how users sometimes use it to download REALLY big files overnight.

otherwise the school is filled with windows xp machines ranging from amd sempron to intel p4/celeron. they suck, they lag and everytime you log on you get 5 errors before the desktop is ready.
 
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We have a teacher at my school who's been there a while and used to work for Apple on the Lisa project. She's been pushing them for a while to get some Macs for her lab (graphics), and they finally gave in because we had two labs with computers from 1999 (running Photoshop 4 and XP on 64 MBs RAM!!!!). They told her that they would order some new iMacs and CS3.

Well, one of our IT people was on vacation while this happened, and he came back and decided that we can't get them because:
  1. Macs don't use the Internet.
  2. Macs don't print.
  3. You can't remotely manage a Mac.
  4. Macs can't print, and they won't run Photoshop!

So... we now have ~60 super-cool ultra modern incredibly fast do-everything virus-infested Dells in those labs. :(

But what do you expect from people who have never used a Mac before in their life, and think that flash drives should be illegal because they allow people to move work from home to school?
 
eyemacg5 said:
I don't know why they are so protective about the wifi key, its only the same as getting ethernet.
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If someone steals your laptop, they can get close enough to the school and connect to the network. Since you can get the code out of a Keychain, they can give the code to another person and this can cause a lot of problems.

Also, you could (not that you would) give the code out to someone who could use it for malicious purposes.

Believe me, their concern is well-justified.
 
mikes63737 said:
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We have a teacher at my school who's been there a while and used to work for Apple on the Lisa project. She's been pushing them for a while to get some Macs for her lab (graphics), and they finally gave in because we had two labs with computers from 1999 (running Photoshop 4 and XP on 64 MBs RAM!!!!). They told her that they would order some new iMacs and CS3.

Well, one of our IT people was on vacation while this happened, and he came back and decided that we can't get them because:
  1. Macs don't use the Internet.
  2. Macs don't print.
  3. You can't remotely manage a Mac.
  4. Macs can't print, and they won't run Photoshop!

So... we now have ~60 super-cool ultra modern incredibly fast do-everything virus-infested Dells in those labs. :(

But what do you expect from people who have never used a Mac before in their life, and think that flash drives should be illegal because they allow people to move work from home to school?
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He would have been slightly less of a loser had he simply stated he didn't know how to work a Mac....Because it's pretty obvious now that he doesn't...
 
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