Beyond the obvious price/ease of use debate, you have to consider the opportunities that this will give universities and schools that already have an investment in Macs...
A school that has 20 nice Macs in their HR office, and 60 in a lab that is locked overnight can (for no cost, and very little effort) leverage these at night for large scale number crunching...
That is, as long as they can get buy-in from the administration to install it.
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This was a really cheesy move on their part, but it seems almost as traumatizing to single this poor girl out as the poster-child for RIAA abuse...
A school that has 20 nice Macs in their HR office, and 60 in a lab that is locked overnight can (for no cost, and very little effort) leverage these at night for large scale number crunching...
That is, as long as they can get buy-in from the administration to install it.