“Azer Delva, 17, of Miramar, said he is the luckiest teenager, or at least one of 2,890 lucky teens, at Miramar High School,” Eileen Soler reports for The Miami Herald. “‘If a kid really wants to succeed these days, like I do, this is the first step,’ he said, flanked by a cousin and two siblings, all Miramar High students and all holding tightly to their own Macintosh iBook G3 laptop computers.
“Principal David Gordon said that by Nov. 3, all Miramar High students will have received a laptop with wireless Internet access on campus and connections to Miramar High programs and information sites at home,” Soler reports. “‘The focus is student achievement,’ Gordon said during the fifth in a series of mandatory student and parent orientation, distribution and training seminars. About 300 computers, each valued at about $1,200, are handed out per session.”
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MacDailyNews Take: iBooks now feature G4 processors, so this report of iBook G3s may contain a minor error. Nevertheless, another bunch of students gets lucky and avoids a bunch of Dells with Windows.