[Macpartners] Re: percentages

[Alex T Prengel]

Duncan writes:

>we keep track of incoming graduate students' computing preference by
>asking them for the type of computer they plan on bringing to/using
>at mit.

>2006
>        macintosh: 46%
>        windows: 54%
>        linux: 0%
>
>am curious to know whether other departments at MIT are seeing
>similar increases.

>dk
>CRN.DUSP (course 11)

I don't know about other departments but the current Chronicle of Higher Ed.
reports recent sharp increases in Mac use at Princeton and other universities.

I suspect the ability of the new Intel Macs to boot Windows as well as OSX
has a lot to do with this.

I personally would like to see OpenAFS on Macs in a state where it works as
well as on UNIX/Linux platforms, so I could install Third Party software
on it like I do now on Athena.

I know it's available and more or less works, but the word I hear is that
there still are problems with its interaction with the Finder, and that bad
things happen when tickets/tokens expire... would be nice if Apple could
seriously get together with the OpenAFS folks to make it work well...

                                         Alex