December 13, 2002

Saint Leo U. Offers iBooks to Professors and On-Campus Students

In recent years, many institutions that had embraced Macintoshes have moved to diversify their on-campus computing. Saint Leo University, near Tampa, Fla., is bucking the trend, offering an iBook laptop to every incoming residential student and full-time faculty member.

So far, 850 students and professors have received the computers, which run software -- including Microsoft Office and Virtual PC -- that the university purchases through site licenses. The iBooks also are