“Unbeknownst to much of the general public, there’s actually a larger gap in quality (and in the rate of technological advancement) between Apple computers and their Windows counterparts, than there is between the iPod and its imitators,” John A. Hanson writes for FactWatch.
“And Apple just released it’s most advanced OS upgrade yet, ‘Tiger,’ while Microsoft continues to labor on it’s upgrade to Windows XP, dubbed Longhorn, due out in late 2006. Microsoft has about a year and a half to attempt it’s typically bizarre collection of kludges only superficially imitating the Mac of days-gone-by,” Hanson writes. “It’s in this context Henrico County school officials decided to end a pilot period of leasing Apple iBooks to instead lease Dell Inspiron 600m’s,” Hanson writes.
Full article here.
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mike, on Panther
You are right , there is nothing wrong on saving money , but think about what are you getting for your dollar. A system that known for attacks of viruses and stuffs that worth a pot to piss in. I can’t see wasting money on something that last two years if that long. To something I can use for four to six years if not more. Why said why.Look with a Hell I mean Dell, you’re looking to put more people at work to keep it running than having a apple. Which is not a bad thing.But that means more IT people. That means more headaches at home with the parents, trying to get the stupid thing to work and that means lost of valuable time of work by the students.So if you look at the small corner of the picture and that what the Henrico school board are looking at, far as money and only money and believe me, not some stupid thing like more usb ports.( HA HA HA ) All is lost.The big pictures is just think about the out come from all this.Lost of time and money on junk Dell computers. Go to any outlet or resell PC stores and you see lot more Dells than any other company. The bad seed have been planted.
Well, they are just trying to teach their kids how to be PC Repair techs. They will get plenty of hands on training this way.
This is just one of the many reasons my children will not be going to public school. Home schooling is the way to go. Just have to make sure that they get some socialization with children their own age.
The Dude abides.
These Doll Constipators won’t run Longhorn. Three months from now, they won’t even run XP. Six months from now, they won’t run at all. Way to go — shortsighted!
It’s_the_Filters_dummy, great take.
My son’s middle school got POS Dull laptops for the students and teachers. The school district was shocked and surprised that the kids could simply log in as a guest and bypass all the security. They were also unaware of the “open” wifi networks peppered around the city.
Filters-schmilters. If they were concerned about 11-14 year olds surfing for porn, they’d have equipped them with a kid safe browser and deleted IE. Oh, IE is built in? Windows has no business in grade school.
End of argument…
I read in another article that their maintenance problems had to do with the logic board problems Apple had. Too bad because that was a one off problem that they probably would not be dealing with a large problem of that nature in a new order. So in effect they are trading their one time only (albeit large) problem for the chronic but more widespread niggling problems associated with the Dells. Good luck to them. I don’t think they will realize how good they really had it on the Macs until about a year into it when they see how much maintenance time and money is being spent on the Dulls.
dulls are the gamers choice
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To Wille G:
“you know….
They will be singing a different tune this time next year in Henrico.”
No – they’ll be praising the “success” as they always do in public education. Nothing ever fails there. There is way too much political crap for them to admit a mistake. That’s why degrees like “Public School Administration” are garbage and should be eliminated.
yay, we get dells
so far here are the specs i know
768mb ram
radeon 9000
finally someting to run autocad2004
no more crapintosh
hotshot,
Current iBooks: http://www.apple.com/ibook/graphics.html
Can you say Radeon 9200? Or 1.3GHz G4 (vs. a Celeron – dumbed down Pentium 3 – at similar speeds)?
Sure, your G3 iBooks are more than 3 years old and are running a far less capable version of OS X, but then a 3 year old laptop certainly isn’t any better.
If you want to know more about what you’re getting, try this. There are details about the Dell laptop:(http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_600m?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs)
Let us know how well the drive bays, screens, and battery charges hold up as well as the additional time you spend preventing and cleaning up after viruses and malware.