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Mac Friendly Colleges?
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baby duck monge
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carleton college (about 40 miles south of minneapolis/st paul) is pretty mac friendly. probably around half the computers on campus (this includes both labs and personal computers) are mac, so there is plenty of support.
over the summer they are going to be replacing a lot of the older computers with g5s, so that will be sweet. also, making most of the final preparations for the internet2 (which will be totally up and running in hopefully around a year - thanks, hamline, for going ahead and starting up with it to give us somewhere to tap in to!) 😀
over the summer they are going to be replacing a lot of the older computers with g5s, so that will be sweet. also, making most of the final preparations for the internet2 (which will be totally up and running in hopefully around a year - thanks, hamline, for going ahead and starting up with it to give us somewhere to tap in to!) 😀
Westside guy
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Krizoitz said:
UW = University of Washington 🙂 (just for clarity's sake)
UW is quite Unix-heavy at the campus computing level of things; and a lot of the Unix-heads have Powerbooks or iBooks - that helps a lot. Also as Krizoitz said, those G5s sitting there in the student computing center at Mary Gates Hall (ha ha!) are generally available. (And they sure look purty, especially next to the Dell boxes in there)
On the other hand our Computer Science department is a Microsoft shop. That's likely due to the amount of money Bill and Paul have given them. As an aside, it was kinda funny a couple years ago when their DNS routers got "0wn3d". 😀
All I wanted to know was about Mac Friendly Colleges, I have not decided on a major or school yet, I'm just looking for some advice. Its probably going to be a Liberal Arts school in the NorthEast, it has to have a good history department, and maybe film/video as well. I liked that idea of using a PC in front of my Mac to hide its identity🙂
Macmaniac said:
you might want to look at amherst in Mass. I have a friend that went there and it's a liberal arts college.
Kutztown University (near Allentown, PA) is very Mac friendly, to the point where it actually has more Macs than PCs. This summer, almost every computer on campus is being replaced, and will be running OS 10.3 and XP. A new wireless network is being installed, as well as residential and acedemic buildings getting seperate (but linkable, in an emergency) networks, to minimize downtime due to windows viruses. The bookstore is an Apple authorized reseller.
While there is not a leasing program for laptops, it is possible to sign out iBooks and Powerbooks from the AV center (PC notebooks must stay within library).
The school is a mid-sized state college. It has a large art program (including Communication Design, among others). There is a very good film/broadcasting department as well (the reason that our library has about 100 Macs in it 🙂) I was a history major for 2 semesters before switching to biology, and I can attest that they have several very good professors within the department (one of whom was an advisor for the movie "Gods and Generals").
For info, go to: kutztown.edu
While there is not a leasing program for laptops, it is possible to sign out iBooks and Powerbooks from the AV center (PC notebooks must stay within library).
The school is a mid-sized state college. It has a large art program (including Communication Design, among others). There is a very good film/broadcasting department as well (the reason that our library has about 100 Macs in it 🙂) I was a history major for 2 semesters before switching to biology, and I can attest that they have several very good professors within the department (one of whom was an advisor for the movie "Gods and Generals").
For info, go to: kutztown.edu
when i was at cornell university (ithaca, ny), it was primarily a mac campus, but i'm not sure if that's changed since then (i graduated in the mid-90's). looking back, it was pretty cool - most of the computer labs were full of macs with just 2 or 3 pc's off to the side. ah, the good ol' days! now i'm surrounded by pc's at work every single day. will the insanity ever end?
i'd highly recommend my alma mater (or do i need to go to that thread on the ivy league to do that? 😀 ) if you're thinking of majoring in history or film (check out the college of arts and sciences there).
marianne
i'd highly recommend my alma mater (or do i need to go to that thread on the ivy league to do that? 😀 ) if you're thinking of majoring in history or film (check out the college of arts and sciences there).
marianne
Blackheart
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Westside guy said:
Yeah, I love it how there will be a line for the Dells at Mary Gates Hall and there will be plenty of G5s open.
But yeah, if you wanted to see what our setups are like here at the UW, here's a link:
http://depts.washington.edu/sacg/facilities/labs/techinfo.shtml
trebblekicked
macrumors 6502a
Macmaniac said:
i went to carnegie-mellon university in pittsburgh for a couple of years. i majored in ethics, history and public policy with a certificate focus in multimedia production (a related program available through the philosophy program). good program, good department and very mac friendly. printing services were top notch (including basically free access to dyesubs and large format bannerjets).
they have a relationship with pittsburgh filmmakers, the local filmmaking commune, that provides a very unique learning experience. PF has tons of free film equipment available for loan (after you pay the lab fees, of course), including lights (up to 2K's), pods, cams, mags, cables, mics, audio decks, editing suites (table, wall, fcp, avid), pretty much everything you'd need to do a 16mm or Super-16 shoot (as well as a new video program).
links:
Carnegie-Mellon University
CMU computer services
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
dukemeiser
macrumors 6502a
Things have changed? I dunno, when I enrolled (class of 2000) all the engineering students were required to have pc's (aka computers running windows). A few years later they made it mandatory for all students to have computers... but I'm not sure if they mandated windows or not... I think it'd be pretty silly if they did. Then again, there's the Math Emporium which has like a gozillion iMacs....phonemonkey said:
poopyhead
macrumors 6502a
Illmatic said:
I went to emory and it is very mac friendly, amazingly mac friendly, in fact for undergrad they prefer macs but you dont have to have one. they even sell macs at the "disc o' duc" and provide comprehensive tech support. my freshman year they had pcs for internet access only everything else was a brand new blue and white G3, they were beautiful. I'll never forget how I spent 20mins (my first mac experience since an apple II in middle school) in a writing lab attempting to get my disc back (there was no external eject button on the drive). I felt like an idiot.
Counterfit
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djbahdow01
macrumors 6502a
Barry University (Miami Florida) is. As we have a Photo/Graphics lab with some 400 MHz G4s and will be upgraded to the G5's hopefully by this Fall semester. As for the Tech department causing problems i am good friends with most of the tech department and have asked about network problems as i am getting a G5 this summer. They said i will have no problems with it, and i know a lot of people that own a mac and are on the network with out a problem. Also if you have wireless internet on a PB or iBook the school is mostly wireless except for some of the older dorms.
MacFan26
macrumors 65816
University of Arizona is Mac friendly. They have a certified Mac repair center in the Student Union and I see lots of people with around with their laptops. As a CS major, a majority of our computers are Windows, but there are Mac labs in the science and arts departments. There also isn't too much of that "you're stupid because you have a mac" feeling. Overall I'd say it's pretty Mac friendly.
flyfish29
macrumors 68020
What school is Mac friendly? Any college that has a philosphy where they just want people to learn about life...not about fixing PC's! No, really, like another said, base you decision on major and what the school can offer you. Obviously if you are wanting to get into design or something based on a Mac then you WOULD want to base you decision on computer platform, but if not, then base it on what the school can offer you, then make the technology offeriings work for you.
Let us know what you are wanting to do with your life...besides work on a mac.
Good luck.
Let us know what you are wanting to do with your life...besides work on a mac.
Good luck.