They'd walk out with anything if that was the issue.The Airs would pose a problem with students with sticky fingers, way too easy to walk out of the room with.
They'd walk out with anything if that was the issue.The Airs would pose a problem with students with sticky fingers, way too easy to walk out of the room with.
Little kids aren't running pro apps... 2 GB is fine with an SSD... mine pulls off FCP easily, but I know how to use software, some don't and think they can have open 20 apps in the background blogging and posting to FB... sorry, focus on ONE thing, and do it well.
Are you mad, the price is for non SSD machines. Add SSD and price goes up 500 bucks.
update: 64GB SSD is not enough memory.
No school with a responsible person in the finance department would say yes to this terrible offering when Lenovo have built a purpose made educational laptop for only $429.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/26/lenovo-thinkpad-x130e-available-now/
Specs include i3 or AMD Fusion, 4GB Ram (expandable to 8GB), 250GB HDD. This thing is built to withstand the usual abuse kids unleash anything they get their hands on. Funny thing is it looks pretty nice too.
I read in another article that Lenovo have had such huge demand that they can't make them fast enough! No wonder Apple is offering this pretty laughable deal.
Only 2GB of ram in a non-upgradeable computer? Targeting schools - which need machines with longer upgrade cycles?
Not really a big deal...
Close to half a trillion dollar market cap...over 100 billion in cash...and these specs are the best apple can do for our students!
Not much help for educators...you'd think they'd offer a stripped 11" model for even less.
Until recently you could get Microsoft software for $5 per disc. Windows would be a base $5 in a single disc. Office might require $15-20 for multiple discs.
On the management side if you are looking at a site license, you can have hot seats rotated around. An entire campus can have Creative Suite or some even more expensive software installed. You are only going to pay for the licenses that are going to be in active use and the software to manage the licenses.
Close to half a trillion dollar market cap...over 100 billion in cash...and these specs are the best apple can do for our students!
How much RAM did the white Macbook have that this MacBook Air is replacing?
IIRC the same amount. Not that its relevant for at least two reasons. Why?
Funny that nobody mentioned that this air is pretty much similar to the old macbook spec-wise. So in the very least, schools aren't really any worse off.
How much RAM did the white Macbook have that this MacBook Air is replacing?
Are you mad, the price is for non SSD machines. Add SSD and price goes up 500 bucks.
update: 64GB SSD is not enough memory.
64GB memory? Is this a joke?
I do not have one, one single private item on this computer (such as Movies, Music, Games and such) and yet, I've managed to fill probably 85% of my 160GB HD. Honestly 64 GB, that's the same size as the top of the line iPhone! This would never be enough for my purposes.
What an atrocious waste of money.
MacBook air(s) are more style than substance. Computer = good, spending to much on computers which don't accomplish anything unique = bad / waste of money.
Just based on what you said here...
SSD over HDD
i5 over i3
Mac OS over Windows.
These are not comparable computers...
The Lenovo in his example is the perfect solution for schools wish to provide their students with laptops.
It is built to last better than the air (stronger plastic body, spill prof keyboard and expendability).
SSD over HDD Why would any school want to pay premium to equipped their computers with SSD? Schools will find extremely hard to justify this luxury item on their expenses.
i5 over i3 the i3 is more than powerful for non-intensive workload, and the performance differences 5 years down the line will not be large enough to justify the extra cost.
Mac OS over Windows again this is often a personal choice and is hard to justify spend extra money on OSX over Windows licence.
A school can provide twice their students with Lenovo laptops on the same budget or provide all their students with laptops for half the cost of macbook air.
At end of the day, it is tax payers money, and the Lenovo laptops are simply more sensible choice for mass deployment in a school.
This is a 13" model, a variant of the $1299 model. Guts of the $999 in a $1299 shell.
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The price is deceptive, with no moving parts, unibody construction and non-glass screen the Air is a very rugged machine that wont suffer the repair costs as their cheap plastic counterparts. Hard drives and optical drives are the single most likely parts to fail on any computer. A $500 HP dropped from a backpack could cost a couple hundred bucks in repair parts alone, let alone labor, lost data, etc Along with things like Lions Internet Recovery solution and the growing importance of iCloud the Air is very price competitive. Back in 2009 Apple had a 17% failure rate over three years, market leader HP was 25%, Dell was 18%, Lenovo was 22%, Asus was 12%.
The Lenovo in his example is the perfect solution for schools wish to provide their students with laptops.
It is built to last better than the air (stronger plastic body, spill prof keyboard and expendability).
SSD over HDD Why would any school want to pay premium to equipped their computers with SSD? Schools will find extremely hard to justify this luxury item on their expenses.
i5 over i3 the i3 is more than powerful for non-intensive workload, and the performance differences 5 years down the line will not be large enough to justify the extra cost.
Mac OS over Windows again this is often a personal choice and is hard to justify spend extra money on OSX over Windows licence.
A school can provide twice their students with Lenovo laptops on the same budget or provide all their students with laptops for half the cost of macbook air.
At end of the day, it is tax payers money, and the Lenovo laptops are simply more sensible choice for mass deployment in a school.
How much RAM did the white Macbook have that this MacBook Air is replacing?
Basically it's a "buy 11.6" of screen, get the extra 2.7" free" kind of deal.
Why should most educational institutions be interested in this product? It's simply not competitive in price with Windows 7 laptops. I can understand why consumers with disposable income would be willing to pay more, but I don't see how schools could justify spending $1000 for a laptop when I'm guessing they could get a Windows laptop for $500 each or maybe less. The only reason would be if they wanted to use some specific software like Garage Band or something but other than that, it seems like a pretty tough sell.