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I've seen data on student suggesting that 90% of the laptops on certain campuses are OSX, a complete inversion from 10 years ago. This was coupled with an increase in computer ownership by students moving up to 100%.

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Not to say that this isn't true at other universities, but where I am going to school that is certainly not the case. Some campuses are forcing their students to buy macs, but overall I only know of 4 people that own Macs on campus. This includes Computer Science majors and non-Computer Science majors.

If we include iPhones however...

I may have misremembered the data. The closet I've been able to uncover is student usage in UVa from 1997 to 2009.

http://itc.virginia.edu/students/inventory/compare/

While laptop ownership is near universal; the OS distribution is trending strongly towards OSX but with only about 45% in 2009.

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