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Apple Supplying Florida Public Schools
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of course they won't. the idea is to let people from the community have them. instead, they're going to have 1000 mac fanatics (more than half of who could afford a 'book of their own) buying up every last one there is available, along with 10 of thier friends, who care nothing about macs, but want to sell them on ebay.
pitty.
Then you have people who could actually use the cheap ibook (ie: folks at college who honestly can't afford to spend money on a laptop, but would benefit from it greatly), but even if they go down there, the fanatical, who don't need the ibooks, will have bought them all already.
at least they're doing it on a tuesday, it should cut down on the out-of-towners...
pitty.
Then you have people who could actually use the cheap ibook (ie: folks at college who honestly can't afford to spend money on a laptop, but would benefit from it greatly), but even if they go down there, the fanatical, who don't need the ibooks, will have bought them all already.
at least they're doing it on a tuesday, it should cut down on the out-of-towners...
emw
macrumors G4
Any business that purchases technology will generally depreciate it over 3 years, so the equipment "on the books" is worth nothing. So getting $50 for each of them is actually a bonus for the district, in a pure book-keeping sense.RJP31484 said:
Also, if they needed 25,000 iBooks, their annual budget is probably well beyond the $25M required for the laptops (actually, I'm sure they got them for much less, maybe $800 or less).
dsharits
macrumors 68000
asif786
macrumors 65816
~Shard~ said:
that's what i thought too..but then i went to a school with macs while they were using OS9 -- and everybody hated it. It was so frustrating to hear everyone complain, when I knew OSX was ten times better.
I've left now, but I've heard everything's on OSX now. apart from half of the school computers which they switched to dells..
pubwvj
macrumors 68000
Something that people might be interested to know is that if you homeschool then you are also able to take advantage of Apple's educational discounts for each student. Apple has always been very supportive of education and it is great to see they support homeschoolers too. Both make good cents. 🙂
g4cubed
macrumors 6502a
I guess I have a bitch about what the Henrico School District is doing with these. I question why they are selling them to the public instead of offering them to other school districts for that price. I know of a few school with computers older than 4 years or none what so ever. I would think they would want to help other less fortunate schools districts and still made their anticipated money. But I guess equal education for the poorer schools is not in their curriculum
Edit: Sorry that was a bit off topic. But Glad to see Florida moving to Mac.
Edit: Sorry that was a bit off topic. But Glad to see Florida moving to Mac.
I know you can't really complain about getting an iBook for $50, but what kind of condition do you think the laptops will be in? Especially after a few years of student abuse!
Apple!Freak
macrumors 6502a
~Shard~ said:
I'm not sure what my deal was, but I must have gone to some poor schools or something. In all of the schools I attended (Elementary, Middle, and High School), individual laptops were never assigned to students. It was just two computers to a classroom, and that was that.
there's already another 4 page thread about this topic in the marketplace
no you dont....florida's public school system ranks around 48th in the nation (there's only 50 states), you dont wish you were in florida for that
it's annoying when people complain about things like this...honestly why are you upset about this? the virginia public school system isnt really lacking as a whole, most of the surrounding school districts will be there to get a laptop if they want one anyway...and it's their laptops so the last I checked they can do whatever they want with them....it's not like they're selling drugs
no you dont....florida's public school system ranks around 48th in the nation (there's only 50 states), you dont wish you were in florida for that
it's annoying when people complain about things like this...honestly why are you upset about this? the virginia public school system isnt really lacking as a whole, most of the surrounding school districts will be there to get a laptop if they want one anyway...and it's their laptops so the last I checked they can do whatever they want with them....it's not like they're selling drugs
~Shard~ said:
My school offered "colecovision" computers. I don't think the Macintosh was available at the time, or was just coming out. Boy you must have had it really bad with those IBM's and PS/2's 🙄 😀
Oh yeah and for those of you offering people $50 to get you one you're probably going to have to up the anty. I've seen people offer as much as $200 and name your offer.
If anyone is in the area and willing to pick one of those up for me, I'd be willing to pay a fair amount.
My sister needs a new computer badly, and this might be just the thing. PM me with what kind of price you'd like, and we can set something up.
My sister needs a new computer badly, and this might be just the thing. PM me with what kind of price you'd like, and we can set something up.
~Shard~
macrumors P6
emw said:
Sonofhaig said:
Yah, the first Macs came out when I was in Grade 1, I believe the Mac 128k was released in 1984 if I remember correctly. My first Apple was actually an Apple //e which my brother got in 1983 complete with a screaming 8 MHz 68000 processor! Sweet machines... 😎
Apple!Freak said:
I should have clarified, we didnt have computers on our desks for every class. There were a few that everyone could use, and in the library and such. The only time we had a dedicated computer ourselves was in Computer Science class in High School for doing all of our programming. Ah yes, the good old days I was a QuickBASIC and TurboPASCAL God! 😎
iBooks up to spec...
Looking recently at Win notebooks (mostly centrino 1.4-1.8/256ram/30gb HD standard) it seems the iBook and PowerBook lines are up to spec for the dollars asked.
Have suffered too many Win laptops- worst to best- Dell/IBM(4)/Sony/Toshiba (2).
In university class teaching- i use an iPod photo with powerpoints direct into AV. Let the students mod their own text CDs directly (who cares about the computers- apart from losing 10 hours weekly to Win crashes- so big dollar cost if go the Win route). OpenOffice is becoming the standard for reporting with table glitches from M$ Office accepted (for the next 3 years or so). PDFs also very useful format. M$ somewhat "old school" (including 20 year heading spell-check errors)....not for this rocket-scientist!
Looking recently at Win notebooks (mostly centrino 1.4-1.8/256ram/30gb HD standard) it seems the iBook and PowerBook lines are up to spec for the dollars asked.
Have suffered too many Win laptops- worst to best- Dell/IBM(4)/Sony/Toshiba (2).
In university class teaching- i use an iPod photo with powerpoints direct into AV. Let the students mod their own text CDs directly (who cares about the computers- apart from losing 10 hours weekly to Win crashes- so big dollar cost if go the Win route). OpenOffice is becoming the standard for reporting with table glitches from M$ Office accepted (for the next 3 years or so). PDFs also very useful format. M$ somewhat "old school" (including 20 year heading spell-check errors)....not for this rocket-scientist!
Abstract
macrumors Penryn
RJP31484 said:
I agree. Seriously, printing issues? That's the justification? Get a bunch of eMacs. Get eMac labs. Get new technology labs. $25M can buy you a nice computer lab, plus a competent IT guy that can make sure that the printing "feature" is do-able.
Or how about 20 more teachers at each school to make classroom sizes smaller.
Macmaniac
macrumors 68040
Make me want to be in K-12 again, when I was in first grade I used Apple IIs! We were happy when we could use dial up internet in 4th grade! Now these kids can wirelessly surf the internet and watch streaming video, its amazing how far things have come. I'm sure the kids will get a lot out of this new program.
50 bucks for used ibooks? This shows why american public schools suck so much and are always itching for money. Well, that and that people somehow think it's a major injustice to loose some of their paycheck to keep up the prosperity they've benefited from.
But seriously, look for these on ebay for a lot more money. Sad. The profits should not go to individuals.
But seriously, look for these on ebay for a lot more money. Sad. The profits should not go to individuals.