Mac marketshare rising on US campuses
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 2, 2007 at 5:10pm
Mac marketshare is growing across US college campuses, according to a report in the Pioneer Press (free registration is required to access the article). The report says that have risen above the average five percent usage on US campuses of five years ago to an average 36 percent today.
The growth is believed to be fueled in large part by iPod fever among students, according to the Pioneer Press. Student users also like the Mac’s near-immunity to PC-type viruses and spyware, and the fact that the latest Macs can run the Windows operating system along with Mac OS X courtesy of the Boot Camp feature.
What’s more, Apple has “gotten its act together in recent years,” according to college administrators interviewed for the article. Mac hardware has become increasingly alluring, they told Pioneer Pressand Apple’s education discounts have helped seal the deal.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
