Apple inches ahead of Dell in UK education market

Just about every one and their dog at my school has a macbook, and a select few with blackbooks. There are probably about the same amount, if not more, people with macbooks alone than all windows notebooks.

At my school in London, we have a huge network of PCs with XP. It used to be all macs, but the school switched around system 8 time, sadly. Because my dad worked at the school back then, he used a mac at home, so I was maccified from birth thanks to the IT of my school.

However, frequently people bring in laptops, 75% of which I'd say were MacBooks or MacBook Pros - it's a private school, so lots of rich people, which I'd suggest was the main reason for this. Also, there are 6 or so Macs in art, incl. a G5, because one of the heads of Art is worryingly mac-loving. I mean, I like them and all but he used to cover the walls with newspaper cuttings about Apple. In one of the IT rooms, there are apple stickers (the rainbow ones) on the walls, and an LCIII in the corner.

Sadly, I think there is only a miniscule chance of the school going back to mac, as it would require all new servers and IT support staff and just hassle I guess. Oh well...

Macs would appear to be somewhat unheard of in Salford University (in Greater Manchester). I think the School of Arts has a couple, but otherwise my School of Computer Science and Engineering has sod all. However on the plus side quite a few of the computers duel boot into SuSe Linux. :-)

See,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aallan/41796427/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aallan/41796452/

enough said?

Mac report Norway: I'm sitting at Norway's smallest University with approx. 3000 students. The University's IT section only supports Windows based machines (as well as the rest of Norway) but I'm noticing more and more Macs. MacBooks are showing up in lectures and in the library. Fun!

im in my first year of a-levels and at the moment over half of the laptops that students have brought in from home to use at school are macs. i have a macbook and use it in all my lessons for note taking and from digital arts. as well the art department is just about to get a large computer room full of new iMacs.

At my school, M******* T******, Macs are completely uncatered for. The network is run through some horrible front end made by CSE, thus it is incompatible with Macs. Many of the teachers complain about this as well (most prominently the Art Dept.) but the IT Technical Support team are totally oblivious to such concerns, far too happy in their world of modded XP and customised cases with lava lights.
It's a bit shocking.

I work at a large university in the north of england - we have a lot of macs in our school (which is design). We have a wide mix of eMac's, iMac (TFT), G5's, powerbooks and now some MBP's. We also have to suffer citirix, they have only just upgraded the exchange servers and the only way for mac users to access email is through citrix - which is quite poor, especially when waking from sleep !

We are not even allowed to plug into the network, we are supposed to connect wirelessly and do everything through citirx - no dashboard, safari, Apple Mail. It is a rubbish state of affairs ! Anyone else have these kind of issues???

Seems like we are treat like 2nd clsss citizens because we use macs by the IT hierarchy - one size fits all policy.

Dell E1405 here. The laptops in my dorm show a surprising amount of MacBooks, though...

That said, I work in the IT department, and we are 100% PC. Pretty much all of the older systems are Dell boxes, and they are being replaced with HP over the next couple of years as the result of an exclusive agreement.

I don't think apple has the large-scale IT thing down yet. That's OK- they aren't marketing to that sector at all ("No IT Department Required") but I would love to see that get better in the future. I'm tired of my company's soul belonging to Microsoft and its licensing fees.

At my music college, everyone uses Apples. Especially on the production course. It used to be mainly iBooks, but im seeing quite a few MBPs in the college bar these days (sometimes 3 on a table!)...

never see a PC laptop being brought in though.

The college has a single room devoted to Macs too. Ranging from MDDs to G5 iMacs (20" 2.1Ghz) to CD iMacs (17" 1.83Ghz)... i tell you, it gets pretty hot in that room...