It will be interesting to see if this trend reverses. Of course we've all seen the photos of students sitting in classes and only one guy has a Windows laptop

It will be interesting to see if this trend reverses. Of course we've all seen the photos of students sitting in classes and only one guy has a Windows laptop and everyone else has a Mac... ... but that was back when Vista was at its prime level of stinkiness. General feedback on Windows 7 (even if it is just a glorified Vista service-pack as some claim) is that it is a lot better. I've had a couple of opportunities this year to use Windows 7 desktops set up by different organizations. And I noticed an improvement over Vista. I wouldn't say it was completely pain free, but it is comparatively closer to an OS X level of experience than Windows XP was back in the day (whereas Vista was a decrease in that regard). The question is, would you pay 70% of the price (keeping in mind student discounts on Macs) to get 75 or 80% of the quality? To a lot of people that will seem like an acceptable trade-off, and so we might see a resurgence in Windows laptops on the campus.