Another Minnesota university embraces Mac

After writing about skyrocketing Macintosh share among college students in Minnesota and elsewhere, I heard from a technical staffer at Bemidji State University. He said I missed a good angle on his campus -- and he's right.

Turns out the university "superlab" for students has been converted to recent-model iMacs that can run Windows as well as the Mac OS X. That's about 110 iMacs available to students, along with several dozen other iMacs around the campus, all booting as either PCs or Macs via a customized, easy-to-use screen.

(A few of those iMacs triple-boot, with Linux added to the mix.)

In a separate effort, Bemidji State is outfitting about 20 faculty members with dual-booting MacBook Pro laptops to see whether these are good substitutes for the Windows laptops customarily issued to instructors.

Speaking of Macs on campus, my pal Mark Fawcett pointed me to this piece about Princeton University. Cool.