Futuristic, sleek, and silver, iMacs represent some of the best technology out there with high resolution widescreens, high-speed graphics, and a variety of glorious built-in apps. Situated in the Upper library at St. Paul Academy and Summit School, iMacs provide consistent assistance to students in need of a larger variety of programs than is available on their school computers.

“They’re used regularly…we’ve had them for a long time, they were in the tech area but I don’t think people knew about them, they weren’t getting used so I moved them here [to the library],” Upper School Librarian Kate Brooks said.

Brooks views these computers as a very useful resource for any student looking to expand their horizons. “These computers have a lot of programs that aren’t on a lot of student computers [like the Adobe creative Suite and the general Mac suite of products], and are quite expensive…not everyone’s going to be able to afford those for their personal computers and I wanted them to have the possibility of using them,” she said.

Sophomore Tabeer Naqvi agrees, saying “we have our own computers too, but they [the iMacs] have a lot of programs that could be useful.” Naqvi thinks the iMacs will be especially helpful:   “[you can use them] when you have those projects where you have to put in pictures or make videos…compared to the computers we have now, there’s so much more we can do on them.”