Apple computers seem to have a cachet with college students that other brands of computer don’t have and this cachet has been re-enforced by students’ adoption of iTunes, iPhone, and iPod,

–Eric Weil, managing partner at Student Monitor, to the Macworld magazine.

Riding on the combined wave of the iPhone 3G and the App Store, Apple’s core computer business, the Macintosh computers are enjoying a rejuvenated spurt of interest among the new generation of US computer students. 80% of the US students, surveyed by the US Research Firm Student Monitor, say they plan to buy a laptop, come new year. Among these, 43% are gunning for a Mac Notebook. Dell comes a distant second at 22 percent, while Sony (8%), HP (6%) and Gateway (3%) fall way sort.

Interesting three is that at this same juncture, 3 years back, Dell was soaring and Mac lagging behind. So is it a case of the success of the Mac series? Or a case of one platform, diverse devices and applications. We will know about it better once the HTC-T-Mobile-Android triod is launched.  While the tech-niches will surely be debating over these, let us just leave you with William Gibson’s world:

A new universe, a parallel universe created and sustained by the world’s computers and communication lines . . . The tablet become a page become a screen become a world, a virtual world . . . A common mental geography, built, in turn, by consensus and revolution, canon and experiment . . . Its corridors form wherever electricity runs with intelligence . . . The realm of pure information . . .