“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.”
Full article here.
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.
thecrunge,
We’re actually using Open Directory to authenticate the users wirelessly at which point a mobile account is created. They have access to local storage (on the iBook) as well as a network home directory with a preset quota. Our NetRestore methodology was quite complex, with numerous pre and post-restore scripts taking place. The only problem was naming each individual machine and also setting certain elements required by the county that could not be built into the image, as well as settings that were “forgotten” as the program continued. Even whilst we were deploying machines, changes to the configuration were still being made.
Day-to-day management will be done using ARD 2.
Andy,
You are a very big jack ass!