Public sale of iBooks for the general community has been moved from August 9th to August 16th and now the iBooks will only be available for residents and taxpayers of Henrico County.
The Henrico County iBook sale scheduled for August 9th has been changed. A sale open to Henrico County residents and taxpayers ONLY will be held on August 16th at the Richmond International Raceway.
The main gate will open at 7am and the sale begins at 9am Overnight parking and camping will be prohibited.
One thousand laptops will be available on a first-come first-serve basis — limit one per person. The cost is $50 each. Cash or personal checks will be accepted.
For residents and taxpayers of Henrico County ONLY: More info here.
MacDailyNews Take: So, the iBooks running Mac OS X aren’t “good enough” for the Henrico County students and teachers, but Henrico residents want to keep them for themselves?
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They’ll pay a sh–load of employees double time to sell the computers which will end up putting the district even more in the red.
Unions–I give up.
Is that even legal? To close a public sale to only certain people?
dang it!!!! I had made plans to go with both my little sisters to get them laptops for college… and one for my personal use…
Henrico is asking for a lawsuit now. What a bunch of idiots.
BriAnimations, go as an idiot and they’ll think you’re an employee from Henrico school district. You’ll get your iBook.
Guess the world really isn’t going over to PC’s as much as they like to beleive.
I can’t wait to see the schools computer IT budget get broken to bits when they incorporate those cheap Dells.
A Mac is about $200 a year cheaper to operate and maintain than a Windows PC and a Dell has a lifespan of only 2 years due to the cheap hardware compared to a Mac laptop lasting 3 years on average.
The very fact that they are overwhelmed by countless requests for those $50 iBooks gives testiment of the quality of Apple’s products.
Lets see millions of folks fight over a 3 year old $50 Dell laptop. Not.
People are throwing away perfectly good PC’s because it’s just easier to buy a whole new one than deal with the problems of Windows.
Dang, cancel those plans.
When the time comes, Henrico county won’t be able to give away those virus and spyware filled Dells – that’s if those Dells stay together that long.
Indecision…its a total killer for the Henrico folks…they should have paid attention to how many school PCs were crippled from windows viruses vs. how many School Macs that continued working even despite major virus distribution! Sad.
Andrew Hamilton
hiproductions.com
This is what happens when you get politicians involved with anything.
ron,
with all due respect, where oh where do you come up with the whole union bit? no where do i read on mdn or on the henrico site that they’ll be paying double overtime or that the staff involved will be a)teachers b) most importantly, unioned employees. for all we know they could’ve hired a contractor to handle the sale or the normal staff they us on other surplus sales.
mw “thinking” as in what are you thinking in your assumption.
ron..
not only do they work for the public school system.. its the AMERICAN public school system..
the last thing you should be whining about is how these guys make too much money..
These rubes never learn.
Just glad to (hopefully) see this whole sordid mess come to a close.
Best thing to happen for Apple is for the laptops to be sold to residents. I’m writing this on a 6 year old iBook. . . The new crapboxes they bought will now be endlessly compared to the Apples they replaced. . . .
“So, the iBooks running Mac OS X aren’t “good enough” for the Henrico County students and teachers, but Henrico residents want to keep them for themselves?”
Oh, come on, MDN. Obviously not everyone in Henrico County was against the iBook program.
That like saying “So, Al Gore wasn’t good enough to be president, but the Apple board wants him for themselves?”
At least the taxpayers have first rights of refusal to buy these iBooks. A modicum of sense, finally.
Ron,
Your school union thing is getting old. True, there’s lots to be done to fix them and the coasters. But then there’s lots to be done to “fix” the parents of kids who don’t even know basic manners and blame teachers for all thier kids ills. Teachers don’t get paid enough to babysit 30 kids at a time (or enough to teach them when they can).
Ron you twit! WTF do unions have to do with anything. The school board made the decision to sell. Elected officials. The school board made the decision to sell it on a weekend. Elected officials. The school board made the decision to sell to residents. Elected officials. Oh where in the whole decision process do unions have anything to do with this????
Zzzzzzz
“Unions–I give up.”
moron
Ron: You are right about the unions. They should work on their day off for normal pay. If not for the unions who fought for the five day work week and overtime pay, we wouldn’t have these problems. Can’t wait until the unions are broken and we return to the good old days.
Da*n it! I live in neighboring Chesterfield county and was all set to grab up a couple of cheap iBooks. I had hoped after years of paying for every inbred crumb-snatcher’s measly-assed education up there, I might finally reap some benefit from the scool board’s idiocy.
I guess my state & federal tax money is welcome when it comes time to buy the things in the first place, but I am not welcome to pick up a salvaged one…
I’ll tell you why I talk about unions. They tried to unionise my company three times and failed. If the union had won it would have cost me 25% more to operate, so I would have closed down and everybody would have been out of work. The people who worked for me still call and are thankfull that we all had a job. 12 years later.
The school unions are –well, I can’t even tell you. It’s not the teachers, it’s the rules they work under.
Any more questions?
MW, hell, as in the schools here are going to—-
justified – “Is that even legal? To close a public sale to only certain people?”
The Henrico County Board of Supervisors amended the County Code to allow them to close this public sale to anyone but residents of the county. See: http://www.co.henrico.va.us/
All for 3 year old iBooks.
Somehow I don’t see a Dell sale causing changes to a county’s code.
For what it’s worth, Virginia isn’t a Union state (we’re a right-to-work state). There’s no reason to think any single employee will have anything to do with any union. The sale is on a Tuesday, during business hours. Why would anyone think that these people, union or not, would get anything other than their regular pay for this? Lastly, they certainly won’t be the teachers doing this. This is being done as a surplus sale by the county. They’ll be county employees, much like the ones who work at your local municipal centers. I’d say that sell $50,000 in laptops will likely cover some 10 employees for 3 hours or so, even if it was double-stuffed, hazard pay, holiday, night-shift overtime pay.
I hope they are all bought by windoze users. That will add 1000 new Mac Users to the mix. After they get used to the Mac Experience maybe they will vote to stop this Dell foolishness next time.
Doesn’t matter. It’s Henrico County. That family tree doesn’t fork, it braids.
In Henrico, if you divorce your wife, is she still legally your sister?