Charles G. Ahn
ABSTRACT
Since 1999, the College Library Instructional Computing Commons (CLICC) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has been lending laptops to the campus community. In the fall of 2007, CLICC deployed 300 dual boot MacBooks to replace its entire laptop lending pool and instructional laptops (247 PCs and 42 Macs). Offering both Windows XP Professional and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on one hardware platform allowed CLICC to meet the growing demand to support classes with a video-editing component while maintaining a high level of satisfaction for its mostly Windows user base. Using a customized boot screen was the key to ensuring that users could quickly select their preferred operating system with ease. Each MacBook has 131 Windows and 83 Mac applications available for use. A survey showed 93% of users rated their MacBook experience a 4 or 5 out of 5. Since deployment, utilization of the laptop lending service has surged. In the first year after deployment, loans increased by 59% from the year before (77,439 in 2006-2007 to 123,082 in 2007-2008).
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Index Terms
- Dual boot MacBook deployment project
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