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Pioneer Press examines Apple's resurgence on campuses

By David Gonnerman '90
October 1, 2007

"I never hear students who have switched to a Mac saying they are going back to Windows," Roberta Lembke, director of Information and Instructional Technologies at St. Olaf, recently told the St. Paul Pioneer Press for a story about how Apple computers are regaining a foothold on Minnesota campuses. "The iPod is what brought people to at least consider the Mac again," she explained.

"About a quarter of St. Olaf students owned a Macintosh as of last year," reports Julio Ojeda-Zapata, "up from a low of 13 percent between 2000 and 2003, and approaching the college's all-time high of 36 percent during the 1997-98 academic year. [Lembke] expects another 5 percent to 10 percent uptick when this year's student computers are tallied." Ojeda-Zapata also interviewed St. Olaf students Peter Holt '10 and Julio Lopez '10.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.