Wilkes University moves to Macs: Pennsylvania school pulls plug on PCs.(Brief article)

When is a Mac more than a Mac? When it's a Mac and a PC. Thanks to the Mac's ability to run both OS X and Windows, Wilkes University (www.wilkes.edu) has begun switching to Macs for all of its campus computers. The move will save the Pennsylvania liberal arts college more than $150,000--while letting students and faculty continue to run Windows applications.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Scott Byers, the vice president of finance and the head of campus IT for the 4,000-student college in WilkesBarre, Pennsylvania, decided to make the transition because the new Intel-based ...

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