Apple's Mac makes monster gains at university
- IT TOPICS:Hardware, Macintosh, Operating Systems
While Mac sales have been growing at twice the rate of PC sales of late (36 percent versus 11 percent for PCs for the latest quarter), the conventional wisdom is that the Mac is still a niche player, with about 5% of the overall market.
But the Mac is clearly a strong player in the consumer market, which makes up about a third of all PC shipments. And in one traditional Mac stronghold, the computer's resurgence has been more like a tidal wave.
Pablo Molina, CIO at the Georgetown University Law Center, says there's been a dramatic move away from PCs among the campus' 3,500 students - and back to Macs.
"There’s been a rebirth of using Apple technology on campus. Three years ago it was one percent. Now more than 25% of the students are arriving with Apple laptops. So we’re eagerly embracing Apple technologies as something that people find much more intuitive and [they’re] not necessarily more difficult to support."
Georgetown is just one data point. Are other campuses are seeing a similar surge in Mac usage?
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