[Asclepius]

... And that's what I really want for my students ...

I just want my students to turn off their pagers and cell phones.

As for Macs, they're robust little machines except for the Imacs. Our Imac labs at CMU are a bleeding nightmare of quirks and tics and constant meltdowns. Not a terribly network friendly device. Our design students swear by them though.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Not a terribly network friendly device. "

Exactly. Most of these students will be going out into a network world. It is the future. And as far as networking goes, Macs just can't keep up. In the real world, these students will be exposed to PC/Win and Unix/Linux platforms and that's what they should be learning on.