"They look really sleek," said Perry G. An '01, eyeing the two new Kirkland House computer lab Macintoshes.
FASCS also plans to buy 24 more iMacs for kiosks to replace some older machines, Steen said.
FASCS is also experimenting with new UNIX-based kiosks, donated by Sun Microsystems. There are three machines which use a UNIX operating system in the Science Center outside of Lecture Hall D, intended to serve the same purpose as the iMac kiosks--a place to quickly check e-mail and surf the Internet.
Some students praised UNIX's technical advantages.
"This is much simpler--it pops up our e-mail account right away," Nina Cannizzaro, a GSAS student in Romance Languages and Literature. "It also keeps the logout constant and take less time to reboot."
Jeffrey W. Bezanson '04 said he hoped students would take advantages of the UNIX stations.
"I'm a big UNIX fan. If these [kiosks] help acclimate more students to UNIX, it's a good thing," said Jeffrey W. Bezanson '04.
FASCS also plans new PC purchases for the PC classroom by the end of the semester.