College goes "All-Mac" across campus

By Keith Shaw on Fri, 03/02/07 - 10:14am.

This should make the Macheads scream with glee. Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., instituted a university-wide switch from Windows PCs to Apple's new Intel-based Macintoshes. Over the next three years, the college will become an "all-Mac" campus, giving faculty and students access to iLife and Mac OS applications (as well as Windows applications through the Intel-based systems).

The university said it expects to replenish its 1,700-computer network with Macs over the next three years. The switch is expected to cost $1.4 million, college officials said.

Here's the funniest quote, from Tim Gilmour, the college president: "Experience with the most advanced computers available today will provide our students with an edge when they enter today's job market with increasingly demanding technological expertise."

Umm, yeah, if they want to become graphic artists, computer animators or digital movie makers. [OK, that was a cheap shot].