Last week at the Apple Event in Cupertino, CA, Apple Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook, announced an interesting fact; that Apple had surpassed Dell to become the top supplier of notebooks in colleges and universities. In previous years, fifteen percent of students had Apple notebooks, now the number is closer to fifty percent. Tim then popped this pic up on the big screen and challenged the audience to find a PC. I myself was a Dell Inspiron girl in my early days of University, and I rarely lugged it to class with me — still a paper and pen note taker back then. What about you? Did (or do) you take a laptop to class with you? And if so, was it a Mac or a PC?
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I remember the first class I used my lovely iBook in was Philosophy. It helped with notes and such but eventually I enjoyed just using the computer labs because I could print straight from there. But lately, I think laptops become a distraction what with WIFI all over campuses. I have even seen people play WoW during class.
1I remember the first class I used my lovely iBook in was Philosophy. It helped with notes and such but eventually I enjoyed just using the computer labs because I could print straight from there. But lately, I think laptops become a distraction what with WIFI all over campuses. I have even seen people play WoW during class.
2I'm such a loud typer that I would be completely embarrassed if I brought my laptop to class (plus I probably would never pay attention), but MacBook all the way. Made the transition when I went to college and got my first laptop and will never go back.
3It was the late 90s to early 2000s, and we still took notes the old-fashioned way: with pen and paper. We used computers at the computer lab. I got a desktop computer on that school year, and it was a PC.
4That picture looks like it was staged. Wow.
I've seen a lot of gaming and IMing in classes too.
5i've used mac pretty much all of my life (i'm 23,) and I remember when I started college in 2003 i was one of the few(if not the only one) in the computer science department with a mac and became known as the girl with the silly mac...as soon as I graduated I noticed they became more popular around the department.
6The only laptop that existed in any of my classes was the one used for the hearing impaired student. She had a personal stenographer who would type up what the prof was saying, and the student would look at the screen for any verbal clues she might have missed.
7I didn't take a laptop to any classes in college, but if I had it would have been my Powerbook.
8I took my blueberry ibook to my film classes when i had to work on scripts and stuff.
i'm far too easily distracted to have it with me all the time, i'm finding it hard to get work done at work right now
9The first two years of undergrad I had a dell and then I got my Macbook although in undergrad I never took it to class. Now in law school I use it daily an I would say that it is true that about 50% of people have Macs.
10I'm sitting in class with my MacBook Pro right now!
11I am a freshman at college, and I do have a macbook for school. However I don't bring it to class with me, i still use paper and pen as well for notes.
12I guess I'm the only college girl around here from the old Dell days...I graduated last year, and I usually took my Inspiron to class with me, and definitely saw a lot more Dells than Macs!
13I have a Macbook Pro but I usually don't bring it to class. But I pretty much have to use a mac for school because I do a lot of audio/video editing.
14I loved my iBook in undergrad, and I take my MacBook to my grad classes now. I'll never go back to PCs!
15I was in college when Windows 95 came out
Students used audio cassette recorders or
pen and paper. Man I feel old. "Back in my day...." 
16I graduated university last year, and it seemed like I was one of the few carrying an HP laptop to class... MacBooks were taking over!
17Lots of ppl still had Dell tho, and IT students used IBM's.
I still use the same laptop and I still love it.
Laptops were overpriced and underpowered when I went to college. That and my parents also were completely against me getting one, despite me being the one buying it. They were convinced it would be stolen, either from my bag or from my dorm room.
18Well, I went to school ('74-'78) back when we used punch cards and the calculators were as big as a lunch box with glowing orange neon tubes to display the numbers. A couple of years after I started the fancy $400 HP calculators appeared on the scene and those of us who could afford them laid down our slide rules. I bought the first Apple computer, then the first Mac, but as luck would have it my work requires me to use Windows... so I was glad to see DOS replaced with a GUI, although Windows wasn't really robust until NT and 2000. I had a Cube for a while, but everything Apple is so much more expensive...
19I was in university 10 years ago and in a large lecture hall, there was maybe one person who had a laptop. Obviously a lot has changed.
20I just got home from class which I've started taking my macbook pro to everyday! I love having it with me at all times but I wish I would have gotten a macbook. There's more cases for macbooks and they're smaller and lighter.
I got to community college and the only other mac I've seen around campus was today, my teacher brought her macbook. Very few people bring their laptops, but I think its easier to take notes.
21in grad school i lived with my macbook in front of me in class
22I had a Mac Desktop. I didn't have a laptop back then. Even if I did, I wouldn't want to take it to class. I'd be afraid something would happen to it.
23I've gone through multiple PCs. (And went through 3 from freshman year through graduate school.)
I only made the mistake of bringing my laptop to class twice. Never again. It was much harder to pay attention, and I didn't remember later anything that had gone into my notes, even when I'd taken them down verbatim. (I type 100+ wpm.)
24never owned a laptop... and I am a PC girl
25Back in the day I had a cheap dell laptop, but I never took it to class. Now I have a convertible gateway that I bring sometimes, but it's still rather cumbersome compared to paper and pen. I bring it when I do presentations or know I'll need it.
26I prefer taking notes the old-fashioned way. I brought my PC laptop maybe a couple of times, and it was more of a distraction than it was helpful.
27I
28I went to design univ, and the school was flooded with macs.
29I'm a graphic/web design/web development student who's constantly getting crap for my PC love. I proudly bring my DELL XPS Laptop into the Mac filled labs. I've grown up using both Macs and PC's. My family owned a computer repair shop that repaired both. I know both OS' fairly well and after all that...I'd still rather be on my PC...That's just me.
30We don't use laptops. I'd be nothing but happy to bring my Mac.
31Started off with PC, but switched to Mac this past summer. I'm currently sitting in my music building's courtyard typing away on my Macbook
32Nobody takes a laptop into my classes. If I took one in then I'd play WoW, guaranteed!
33Before the MacBook Air came out, I brought my trusty MacBook to class for maybe a year, then I got the Air, and that's what I bring now, mainly because all I do during my free time is type away some random writing..
34if i had a laptop, i'd bring it EVERYWHERE with me! especially class. so... dell or mac...either one is fine by me!
35I was in college in the early 2000s, and had a 12" G3 iBook, then a 12" powerbook (the first aluminum one!). I was often the only person in my class with a laptop, or one of a maximum of three.
36I love my Powerbook! No offense to anyone but I think I'd be too embarrassed to take my PC laptop to class...heck I don't like to tell people I own one (its from my "parents bought it and it was cheaper than an Apple" days). Its like the crazy uncle no one speaks of...hahaha. But I think it was more in the past year have I see Apples on campus. Until recently I actually thought I was the only person on campus who had one!
37couldn't afford a Mac when I was a student
38I am going to be starting college in January, and when I do, it will be one year since I got this laptop. It is a Sony. I think it is more practical for the things I need to do. Plus it's pink lol.
39I have a MacBook that I take to class with me all the time, but I also have a Dell desktop at home. It's actually extremely helpful to have both
40i couldn't afford a computer in college until my junior year. but i went to drake, at the time considered one of the most wired schools in the country because we had the mac in a room program where all residence rooms had a mac. they ended the program my junior year and i used my summer job to purchase my own desktop. it was an emachine. haha. i didn't buy a laptop until i was a working adult.
41Could not afford a pc until later in my uni days since I paid for college on my own and my first bought computer was a a ruby imac. Even if I could take my current macbook to class I wouldn't.
42I still love pen and paper and try to send as much as real mail as possible. Dont get me started on my love for pens and moleskines and stationary.....
I bring my Macbook to class all the time, though I very rarely use it in class. I mostly use it while studying or working on papers after classes. At my University while those with laptops are increasingly mac users, it seems overall laptop usage has gone down over the years. In most classes no one has a laptop.
43I started out with a horrible Toshiba PC...after it couldn't hold a charge WITH the power cord plugged in, I had to switch to something durable.
I bought a 12" Powerbook G4 3.5 years ago, and I haven't been happier with its performance. I took it everywhere, took lecture notes, made awesome projects...except many professors banned laptops in class (cheating, too much distraction), so people can't get the full functionality of a laptop now.
Pretty much everyone I know is a Apple Student. PC's just don't work as well...too bad the school has mostly PC's (Dell).
I want a new (previous gen) MacBook Pro [no more space for RAM upgrades on the PB], but the price point is waaay too high for me right now. I wish the student discount was a REAL discount!
44I've never used a laptop in class, everyone else used pen and pencil. Libraries are different, though. Anyway, I've barely seen any Mac over here (in Spain and Northern Ireland), most used Windows.
45Im a MacBook kinda gurl! but i dont have one yet
46When I started college almost 10 years ago it was a Gateway desktop, then I updgrade to a Compaq laptop in my third year and in my senior year I had to replace my Compaq for yet another Compaq laptop. I never took my laptop since it was so heavy, bulky and noisy. But I recently went back to college for my second bachelor's and this time around it's mac and it definitely goes with me to my classes. Don't know what I'd do without it.
47im mac-aholic !
48im mac-aholic !
49I'm a bit of all three... I was a PC user up until my last semester of college. I used my refund check to buy my beautiful black Macbook. And, most students don't really use/bring their laptops to class- the university has a ways to go as far as wi-fi and internet access in classrooms. So good old pen & paper for me.
And I'll be that picture was taken at a college in Northern CA- just a hunch.
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