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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Just a comment on this, actually Mac has a very sizable presence
in US education. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I had to do some research on this a while back to support some Mac
OS based development projects. Based on the current literature from a
wide variety of sources Mac currently has about 15% of the US postsecondary
market and 35% of the k-12 computing market. Mac is also the only
platform that seems to be gaining market share it the higher education space as
well, moving from 12.5% - 15 in the last two years of data available. The
issue is that Macs also tend to have a longer lifespan that the typical windows
box so many of these are not running OSX in any form.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>To be perfectly honest I actually like OSX, the problem is none
of the major applications I have to use will run properly on a Mac.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Ron Stewart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sean
Keegan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 21, 2007 2:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] Assistive/adaptive software & hardware &
iMac... oh my<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Hi NJ,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>The Academic IT Support team, where I am employed, is
considering pulling </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>> all PCs from the classrooms and labs and installing iMacs,
with Windows OS </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>> running in the background or foreground depending on the boot sequence.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Is the intent to use BootCamp for OS X or is the intent to use
something like Parallels? Important distinction as with BootCamp (as it
presently exists) you boot into *either* the Windows OS or the Mac OS.
Parallels, on the other hand, runs as a virtual machine from within the Mac OS
environment.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>The reason I raise this distinction is that it has profound affect
upon how an individual would even log in to the system. My question would
be if a student can independently login to the machine if using the Parallels
environment. Sure, we have had success getting AT to run under the
Parallels environment, but you need to be able to navigate the Mac OS first in
order to get Parallels running.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>(Note - With Parallels, we have been able to get both JAWS 7.x,
Window-Eyes, and Dragon Naturally Speaking to work. We were not able to
get ZoomText 8.x to work).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>If this is a serious consideration by your IT department, then they
are really bleeding edge. BootCamp is not even released yet, other then
the public beta versions, and if they are making such a decision based on
public betas for campus labs, they have a lot of guts.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>> This morning he said he would keep a PC in each classroom and
lab for those </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>> who need accommodations if that was acceptable.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>I think this needs to really be thought through - particularly for
the classroom environments. The Mac OS and the Windows OS are really
different. What happens when an instructor is teaching from the Mac
platform and the student is on the Windows platform? Not all Windows/Mac
applications have the same features for both platforms. I suspect it
could be a *very* different experience for a student as compared to the rest of
the class.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>As Pratik mentioned, there are some legitimate uses for each platform
and, provided that the various issues are considered and addressed, then it may
be an option.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Take care,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Sean</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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