Comments on: 70% of College Freshmen Use Macs

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:44:32 +0000

They would be sheep either way. I use Linux.

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:20:30 +0000

Keep in mind that as these students graduate and begin to take corporate positions that have the authority to make decisions, they will move things around to what they’re most comfortable with which will most likely be the machines that they went to college with.

By: Reed

Reed — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:59:27 +0000

You obviously don’t follow political coverage on ABC, NBC, CBS, or CNN.

By: Keith N

Keith N — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:47:38 +0000

Why are they sheep if they use macs, but not sheep if they were all using Windows?

By: Observer

Observer — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:07:03 +0000

In other news, 70% of college freshmen are also idiots. Isn’t that why they’re going to college?

By: John

John — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:25:46 +0000

Godwin’s law at work

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 16 May 2011 20:04:03 +0000

A bunch of sheep

By: John

John — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:33:48 +0000

So now you are just hanging on to a “place” in corporate. Ha, love it.

By: Can Apple Break Into the Corporate World?

Can Apple Break Into the Corporate World? — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:02:17 +0000

[...] finally off to college, what else would they bring with them other than shiny new MacBooks? Some generous estimates report that as many as 70% of incoming college freshman own Macs. In a perhaps more realistic [...]

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By: TOGGI3

TOGGI3 — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:29:54 +0000

“Our research is indicating that Microsoft is unable to connect with the new generation of users,” Chowdhry wrote, adding that this could cause problems down the road when these students enter the work force and once again pick Macs over Windows.

I would like to add its the people in higher education who make up what the work force will be one day.

By: The Other Guy

The Other Guy — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:13:25 +0000

Here is a more recent photo:
http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/macs-in-the-classroom.jpg

Yes, I can confirm that, at least where I work (University of WI) at LEAST 70 percent of incoming freshman in the fall of 2009 and spring semester of 2010 used a macbook or macbook pro as their primary computer.

While speaking with one of the university IT administrators a few days ago, I can tell you that they have seen what he called an “enormous surge” in the Mac to PC ratio.

I don’t know, maybe it’s something in the water, but we’ve found that 70% is being conservative.

I would be interested to hear if there are any other colleges seeing such surges.

By: Macs in the classroom | MyStreamTv.Com

Macs in the classroom | MyStreamTv.Com — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:11:09 +0000

[...] may recall the figure released last week by a research analyst saying that 70% of incoming college Freshmen use Macs, well, at some schools it’s already higher than that. Take this classroom at BCIT, where out [...]

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Macs in the classroom - OS X Daily — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:41:12 +0000

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:03:29 +0000

Nice photo and propaganda hit piece. I remember seeing this back in either 2004 or 2006. The exact same photo. Sure, I would love for Macs to make up the majority and live in a modern day utopia, but wishing is not going to make it so.

Macs making up 70% of incoming freshman. Seriously. In this economy. It is simply not logically.

To make this story believable, I think we need more then a focus group and their general “feeling and survey” of the situation. What I want is some actually stats.