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Apple!Freak
Sep 22, 2005, 06:40 PM
Man, only $1100 for a laptop with a 214.4-inch display, 21GHz processor, and 230GB Hard drive with 2786MB of PC2100 DDR SDRAM. Count me in. Dell, you are one amazing beast.

http://www.macnewsworld.com/rsstory/46203.html


PlaceofDis
Sep 22, 2005, 06:45 PM
looks like it should read:

14.1 inch screen
1.3 GHz
30 gig hard drive
768 MB of RAM

just a typo really
Phatpat
Sep 22, 2005, 06:50 PM
Doesn't that seem a little expensive for the specs?

I know Dell is very good with warranties in schools. A school I worked for had a bunch of laptops, and if any had missing keys, dell would just replace the keyboard. They were also good about replaces AC adapters and batteries. I guess that's what they're paying for.
jeremy.king
Sep 22, 2005, 06:53 PM
I wish them luck with spyware, viruses, and windows patches...
Abstract
Sep 22, 2005, 07:00 PM
just a typo really

Yeah.............4 typos.

Consecutively.
macbaseball
Sep 22, 2005, 07:03 PM
I am really against that school district. They handled getting rid of their Macs terribly. They should have just given their Macs to a schoo ldistrict or sold them for a real price. It's rediculous to think they sold them for $50. Well if they wanted to sell them at that price, they at least could have controlled the crowd, then again i would have been crazy too. Also wouldn't it have sucked if you got a dead iBook, which I read somewhere.
generik
Sep 22, 2005, 10:12 PM
I wish them luck with spyware, viruses, and windows patches...

Windows in a corporate environment running locked down.. yeah, they will have good luck with the above mentioned.

Guess what? Your favourite brand will NEVER be considered by the suits in a serious working environment! Not roadmap, no nothing!

Not everyone is a fanboy ya know..
notjustjay
Sep 22, 2005, 11:24 PM
Did the article change?

I see no specs in there.
jeremy.king
Sep 23, 2005, 10:32 AM
Windows in a corporate environment running locked down.. yeah, they will have good luck with the above mentioned.

Guess what? Your favourite brand will NEVER be considered by the suits in a serious working environment! Not roadmap, no nothing!

Not everyone is a fanboy ya know..

Wow, yet another MS troll lurking on a Mac user forum...

Glad you can read, MS fanboy :rolleyes: . Did you even read the posted link? This is a school district and not a corporation, most schools barely know how to secure a network, let alone a students laptop. I wished them luck, and when they realize all the problems from a patchy OS, the superintendant will be on the line. Don't be surprised if 4 years from now, they reorder Apple laptops - just remember you heard it here first.
stoid
Sep 23, 2005, 10:37 AM
Yeah, uhhhhhh...

Approximately 215,800 laptops are being distributed to Henrico County high school students. The laptops cost the schools US$1,131 apiece for a four-year total cost of $17.9 million.

Something there doesn't add up....

I'm thinking it's suppose to be 15,800 laptops. Some one must have a broken '2' key. Or really fat fingers.