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Apple computers' popularity growing at colleges, universities
iPod fever fuels Apple's resurgence on campuses across Minnesota
BY JULIO OJEDA-ZAPATA
Pioneer Press
Article Last Updated: 09/30/2007 12:27:45 AM CDT

Sara Langhinrichs, a Macalester College political science student, says her MacBook is easy, straightforward and doesn't have viruses. She previously used a PC laptop, "until it started kind of smoking, and that didn't seem like a good thing." (RICHARD MARSHALL, Pioneer Press)

At Café Mac on St. Paul's Macalester College campus a recent afternoon, Macintosh computers reigned supreme.

Students using Apple laptops were scattered throughout a second-story lounge overlooking the student eatery - named for the college, not the computer - while a lone Windows-laptop user sat a table.

Though students owning Windows PCs actually outnumber Mac owners at Macalester, this tableau points to the Mac's surging popularity on college and university campuses across Minnesota and the country.

Apple's Macintosh once was an endangered species in U.S. higher education amid the brand's market doldrums and Microsoft's seemingly unassailable Windows dominance.

Now, the Mac is back in a big way.

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But recent Mac growth on campuses elsewhere in the state has dramatically outpaced Mac growth in the general population.

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