Mac Law Students

Dennis Bishop, the Director of Information & Technology at the University of Oregon School of Law, sent me this comparison of Mac and PC use at his school. The numbers speak for themselves. Dennis notes, “We consider ourselves a testament to other law school IT departments that allowing Macs can actually make your life easier.”

He also informed me that his IT shop is an Apple authorized repair center; they do all warranty work in-house. According to Dennis, “Students love getting their Macs fixed without sending them to Apple.”

Total as of Fall 2007/2008

• 209 Macs
• 136 Dell
• 77 Non-Package (not one of the school’s recommended choices)
• 65 Unknown

Fall 2007/2008 Incoming Students

• 102 MacBook/MacBook Pro
  • 24 MacBook (Black)
  • 56 MacBook (White)
  • 22 MacBook Pro
• 25 Dell Latitude D630
• 24 Non-Package Laptops (HP, Toshiba, Inspirons, others)

Most of the remaining 26 students are waiting for their Dells (supply chain problems) but two of these students who decided they would rather have Macs.

2Ls

• 66 MacBook/MacBook Pro
• 42 Dell
• 42 Non-Package
• 12 Unknown

3Ls

• 41 MacBook/PowerBook/iBook
• 69 Dell
• 11 Non-Package
• 53 Unknown

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Apple Stores are the best place to go for support, with phone support not getting such high marks, but in general Apple is handily beating the competition in computer suppport:

Apple’s tech support team helped their customers solve problems with their computers more than 80% of the time. Industry-wide, help-desk teams from all companies solved their customers’ problems around 60% of the time.

Get the full scoop at Network World.

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I’ve got a take-home final, a contract to write, and a privacy law paper to finish. So I decided to write a blog post! This one isn’t about Macs in law school. It’s about how Apple’s successes over the last few years have as much to do (if not more) with distribution channels than with great product design.

If you’re interested in such things (JD/MBA folks?), take a look: Apple’s Success = Design + Distribution.

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They’re multiplying. With the addition of James’s setup, we now have eight different writeups describing which hardware and software Mac-using law students prefer. Even if you are a long-time Mac user, there are some discoveries to be found in these articles.

I’d like to put together a summary post in the near future, describing some of the similarities and differences between the setups, but I can’t guarantee that I’ll have it up in short order.

To those of you who have already finished finals, congratulations! To those of you still in the middle of it, good luck!

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I’ve just posted setup info from Greg Walklin, who is just winding up his second year at Nebraska. That brings the total number of setup articles to seven, and there’s quite a range in the applications people use.

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