My best friend is pursuing her Master's degree here at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga (yeah, we actually have colleges here)...she says she sees quite a few Macs around.
And the library and several other popular buildings are set up with wireless Internet access.
She uses her iBook WAY more than she ever did her old Ethernet-lacking, Windows ME-powered, 2" thick Gateway.
Happiness, for her, is a 14" iBook G4, 640MB RAM, Office v.X, AirPort Extreme Card, Panther and a Kensington Saddlebag.
One of her profs has a TiBook that she (the prof) likes to praise and show off.
I entirely agree that there is a great Mac community at Michigan. The computer store on campus always has Macs prominently displayed, and Apple ads/posters up around campus.
That dual G5 lab mentioned above failed to say that they actually have dual displays, too (17" and 15"). Before the G5 upgrade, the Macs were almost always empty. Now, it can be hard to get your hands on one, mainly because of the dual monitor setup. All the labs on campus with the exception of the Engineering labs are about 1/4 to 1/3 Mac, and they have good development people that put together what almost seem like custom builds of OS X for different purposes, such as Web Stations, Full Use Stations, etc. All of the Engin PCs are dual-boot RedHat/Windows, but I like to tell people that having OS X is like having a Linux system that can run main-stream applications as well.
I've also noticed that at nearly half of my professors/GSI's (TA's) in the EECS department use Macs, and I always show off the fact that I can natively and locally compile all my C++ stuff using g++. Very often people will say that they thought Macs sucked, but maybe they don't, and that they should have gotten one.
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And the library and several other popular buildings are set up with wireless Internet access.
She uses her iBook WAY more than she ever did her old Ethernet-lacking, Windows ME-powered, 2" thick Gateway.
Happiness, for her, is a 14" iBook G4, 640MB RAM, Office v.X, AirPort Extreme Card, Panther and a Kensington Saddlebag.
One of her profs has a TiBook that she (the prof) likes to praise and show off.
That dual G5 lab mentioned above failed to say that they actually have dual displays, too (17" and 15"). Before the G5 upgrade, the Macs were almost always empty. Now, it can be hard to get your hands on one, mainly because of the dual monitor setup. All the labs on campus with the exception of the Engineering labs are about 1/4 to 1/3 Mac, and they have good development people that put together what almost seem like custom builds of OS X for different purposes, such as Web Stations, Full Use Stations, etc. All of the Engin PCs are dual-boot RedHat/Windows, but I like to tell people that having OS X is like having a Linux system that can run main-stream applications as well.
I've also noticed that at nearly half of my professors/GSI's (TA's) in the EECS department use Macs, and I always show off the fact that I can natively and locally compile all my C++ stuff using g++. Very often people will say that they thought Macs sucked, but maybe they don't, and that they should have gotten one.