The Mac Invasion at my School.

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That's a public school?

I go to an international private school with annual tuition $21 000 (my family doesn't have to pay) and we have two labs of HP Pavilions and our video editing room is like 10 of these Chinese-made gaming computers that sound like freight trains.

My school only has about 500 kids though—total. From K-12.

 

[miniConvert]

Some rather negative comments on this thread I don't think it's fair to guilt the OP over the politics of the distribution of wealth.

Looks like a fantastic place to get an education - lets hope one day many more schools can reach a similar standard. Perhaps we should consider this a role-model of what schools could and really should be like.

 

[Skeeball236]

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[Verto]

Perhaps we should consider this a role-model of what schools could and really should be like.

Minus the athletic super complex.

 

[Electro Funk]

when i was in high school ther were 5 computers in the "lab"

all running DOS

 

[w_parietti22]

Lucky! My school only has one Think Different poster!

 

[katie ta achoo]

The Honors college at Uni is 100% Mac.

My history professor uses a Mac Mini hooked up to the A/V system to show presentations, and her iBook has her lecture notes for the day.

There's a room of 20 eMacs... the main honors college room has 3 eMacs, 2 iMac G3s, and probably a mini stashed somewhere.

It's pretty.

 

[lu0s3r322]

some of our teachers are actually mac addicts themselves

i overheard one that was talking to another teacher saying: "Hey, have you heard of those new mac laptops, the one's with the built in cameras?" then i think he said something about how he loves macs because it started off in a garage.

other teachers....well, my current intro to business teacher...she didnt know what an ipod was till last year and thinks the PS2 comes out next year... I think she teaches at some other school during the regular school year...I am ashamed.

 

[mojohanna]

A school built for the fund trust babies, great. Although, I guess they have to put you kids somewhere to keep you from getting beat up.

Lets get one thing straight... A public school is not bulit FOR trust fund babies. They all go to $20,000/year private schools. This school is built BY the TFB parents that live in the community and pay what is most likely HUGE taxes for a school such as this. There are also 5000 students there. That means a large tax base to support such facilities.
I think it is great. The system seems to be providing a very diverse learning and development opportunity.

 

[OnceUGoMac]

Lets get one thing straight... A public school is not bulit FOR trust fund babies. They all go to $20,000/year private schools. This school is built BY the TFB parents that live in the community and pay what is most likely HUGE taxes for a school such as this. There are also 5000 students there. That means a large tax base to support such facilities.
I think it is great. The system seems to be providing a very diverse learning and development opportunity.

Sorry, I can't hear you. The change in your pockets is distracting me.

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[w_parietti22]

Sorry, I can't hear you. The gold coins in your pockets is distracting me.

Why is it that every time people here find out that some people have more money then them they get jealous and rude?

 

[slooksterPSV]

My old HS (well I just graduated so yeah) has 2 mac labs:
1 has 27 PowerMac G5's all of them dual-core 25 with 2GB of RAM, 2 have 4GB and 8 have 80GB HDD, 18 have 160GB HDD, and 1 has 2x250GB HDD - (its our server).

The second lab has:
11 iMac G5's and 18 G4 eMacs, and 1 XServer and 1 B&W.

The library has 2 iMac G3s and 1 PowerMac G4.

The Network Admin class and teacher I was an intern for (Networking Intern) had 2 iMac G4's in it. (And for PC lovers, 30 Dual-Core Intel Pentium processors clocked at... 2.0GHz each w/1MB L2 ram per core. And 256MB PCI-Express Video cards in all of them. - 3D graphics mainly along with VMWare workstations)

The photography/art room has 3 iMac G4's.

As for the other labs, 6 of them (that includes my Net Admin class) have 30 Intel machines in them - some up to date, most not.

Then there are like 8 HP Servers - Netware 6.5 servers - in the server room and like 30 G4's that aren't going any where.

 

[OnceUGoMac]

Why is it that every time people here find out that some people have more money then them they get jealous and rude?

I'm sorry, should I have put the in smileys?

To answer your question, I'm not jealous at all of the OP. However, I think it's in poor taste to start a thread about how affluent his high school is compared to others.

 

[Skeeball236]

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[iSaint]

The Honors college at Uni is 100% Mac.

My history professor uses a Mac Mini hooked up to the A/V system to show presentations, and her iBook has her lecture notes for the day.

There's a room of 20 eMacs... the main honors college room has 3 eMacs, 2 iMac G3s, and probably a mini stashed somewhere.

It's pretty.

Did you feel like it was meant to be? (...for you to go there?)

 

[katie ta achoo]

Did you feel like it was meant to be? (...for you to go there?)

Yes, but for other reasons.
(all the Macs didn't hurt.)


warning: rant ahead

and to the "why do people get all jealous 'n' stuff?!?!"

IMO, it's all about the distribution of money. You DON'T need a $250million facility to learn in. While you have what looks like all the money in the world, there are schools all across the country struggling to get by.
My old high school is a performing and visual arts school... the pianos are CONSTANTLY out of tune, the facilities aren't big enough to house everyone, and most of the teachers have to share rooms.
We are the jewel in the school district's crown. We're always getting pimped: play here, dance there, show the superintendent your new artwork... but can we GET supplies? NO! Can we get a freaking functioning science lab? NO! Can we get enough money to hire DECENT teachers?? NO!!!

If we took 1/10 the money it took to furnish that school, we could tune the pianos, get a bigger dance studio, rework the acoustics in the theatre: things a performing and visual arts school needs.

I know it'll never change, but it still cheeses me. When other schools have to slash their budget 10 times to be able to provide science textbooks, while others are rolling in money.. it seems so unfair. A student in the poorer school would benefit immeasurably from things that a little bit of money would change: a well-stocked library, a new microscope to use in class, a class in the fine arts*.

:sigh:

*This is usually the first to go. It saddens me greatly. Fine arts are the most important thing that a student could take. Music is amazing. It doesn't have to even be "stuffy ol' beethoven", any kind of music can be life-changing. Any of the arts ARE life-changing. I know people who would probably be passed out and strung out in the streets, but ever since they picked up a paintbrush for the first time, they've been into their art. I could go on and on.. I feel quite strongly about the arts, being a former stinky arts student myself. (I'm not any more because of injury.. I would if I could. I'd give up ANYTHING if I could.)