UNC has a deal with IBM, and every student gets a brand spankin new Thinkpad at a discounted price (I spent about $500 for mine), so just about every single student out of the 16,000 undergrads here have one. Believe me, those kids didn't choose the Macs because of quality (in which case, the choice wouldn't have been a Mac).
My university and my Thinkpad rock Mizzou and their aesthetic processors.