Apple's School Night

I was reading this link and sounds very interesting. Basically schools can set up what they have done that involves Apple Technology at their local Apple Store. And if parents buy a computer that night, they get 50 dollars off and the their school gets 50 dollars towards a purchase of an Apple product. This is great to see Apple working with the education, especially letting them show off their iMovies and such. Someone will have to tell me how it goes. Here is the link. http://www.apple.com/education/schoolnights/

iJon

Re: Nice idea, but...

Originally posted by Abercrombieboy
This is too little, too late.

Apple might as well concede defeat on the education market. It is sad, but I would guess 80-90% of K-12 schools have converted to PC's. I have my own personal iBook on my desk at school just so I can have a Mac. The school where I teach will not purchase Macs anymore. Price is a consideration and also parents have voiced their opinion to the board of education that they want their kids to learn on what they will be using someday in their careers. It is sad because Macs are excellent education computers, but I guess that is how everything is going anymore...

Oh yeah don't buy Gateway Celeron laptops. We bought a mobile lab and have sent 5 of the 20 back for service. They are junk, but the board of education said NO to iBooks when we bought this crap.

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yeah at our school we have all pcs. they are pc's the computer classes built and they are terrible. the one reason i would like macs at our schoool would be because no one would no how to screw them up. we have so much s*** on the computers at school. we have imacs in the newspaper room which i have gotten a lot of students to like. although we are using quark 5 i switched one of the guys to os x and he loves it. I did a multimedia class in high schoool and it was all dont on p2's with no fireiwre or anything. we were using the worse software ever. when we had to do a powerpoint, i did one on apple and one of my slides was "Why Multimedia is Better on a Mac". haha it was great. I really personally feel that with programs like the maine project and stuff, people will learn from that.A itty bitty city that has less than a 1000 people in it which is right next to our city which has about 70000 people in it, ordered a bunch of ibooks for a school program. Apple paid for most of it but still. as long as those ibooks in maine work as advertised and dont break a ton of times more schooos may purchase macs in the future. i cant wait till i get my 12 inch powerbook so i can take it to school and stop lugging around this 9 pound powerbook g3 pismo.

iJon