Higher Ed Mac Sales Triple
It’s about time! I was getting so sick of seeing Dell-bricks being slathered across campuses in some sort of self-reinforcing cluster-fuck of low price crap somehow creates an emerging standard so the prices go down. As the bargain basement drones begin turning to slag, the kids are spending Dad’s hard earned bucks on something with a future - Macintosh.
Apple let Dell take over education, but at last they are taking back the field.
From MaCNN:
Harvard Mac sales surge 30 percent
Macs are continuing to see a resurgence on college campuses, solidifying the company’s foothold in the education section. In the September, Apple executives told investors that the company experienced its most successful back-to-school quarter ever for its higher education business, noting that shipments of Mac portables increased 49 percent year over year due the popularity of the MacBook a successful free iPod nano back-to-school promotion. According to The Harvard Crimson, personal purchases of Macs at Harvard are up 30 percent from last year, while sales of IBM Lenovo machines have more or less flat-lined. Harvard, one of Apple’s largest educational re-sellers, has seen a rebound in Mac sales from several years ago. The same trend was seen at another Ivy league university Princeton, where Mac purchases have tripled in the past three years.