“All students enrolled in Shoreline’s public secondary schools now can have a Macintosh laptop for use at school and at home during the school year,” Linda Knapp reports for The Seattle Times.
“This program is possible because Shoreline residents passed a bond measure enabling the school district to purchase and support the laptops. Parents can opt out of the program, but very few have,” Knapp reports. “For this family’s eighth-grader, the excitement of receiving a laptop makes returning to school not so bad.”
“They’ll be using these computers to do research, write papers, develop presentations, submit homework and communicate with teachers, among other things,” Knapp reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: All of Shoreline’s 7th-12th graders – more than 4,800 students – are eligible for take-home Apple iBook and MacBook computers this school year. Shoreline, WA is located a scant 21 miles (about a 30 min. commute) from Microsoft’s Redmond, WA headquarters. We can only imagine the reactions of those Microsoft employees living in the Shoreline school district as their children bring home their new Apple notebooks running Mac OS X.
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CNNMoney’s back-to-school guide: Get a Mac – September 02, 2006
The Seattle Times: Apple Macbook is best computer for school – August 26, 2006
Enderle: Microsoft employees voice concerns about working for dysfunctional company – March 29, 2006
What’s the difference between Mac OS X and Vista? Microsoft employees are excited about Mac OS X – March 22, 2006
Apple Mac is #1 in European education market, pushes Dell down into second place – February 03, 2006
We can only imagine the reactions of those Microsoft employees living in the Shoreline school district as their children bring home their new Apple notebooks running Mac OS X.
Probablly a collective sigh of relief as they know they won’t have to spend hours on them to keep them free of malware like they have to do for the rest of the world at work.
We can only imagine the reactions of those Microsoft employees living in the Shoreline school district as their children bring home their new Apple notebooks running Mac OS X.
Install Bootcamp & Windows?
@ qka
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
Microsoftites are not ignorant of Apple products, they sport quite a decent amount of iPods on the Redmond campus.
They just tote the company line and products because it pays their salary.
It’s just a job to most of them, only the brass drinks the kool-aid and acts like Nazi’s.
“Parents can opt out of the program, but very few have.”
Now that’s interesting, a school district that offers a choice not an ultimatum. Maybe more school districts will also permit open campuses with free and democratic computing.
See this yet?
http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/10/even_microsoft.html
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Now that’s interesting, a school district that offers a choice not an ultimatum. Maybe more school districts will also permit open campuses with free and democratic computing.>
Wot a load of bollocks!
Discipline and a good kick up the arse is what a lot of these namby pamby kids need.
MW-choice -NOT.
It said parents can opt out Ron not the namby pamby kids.
Where’s the throwing chair image?
Apple feeds the next generation. The bias these Micro$in employees have towards Apple will change and be a wake up call for these parents after they see what their kids do with them after a little while. And NO, you don’t have to install Norton.
Wait till Microsoft strikes back. There will be Zunes all over Cupertino. Mainly in trash cans, but still…
Thanks for the laugh TowerTone!
Peace.
most of my MS friends here in WA work and play at home on their 17′ powerbooks. Some already purchased the new Intel ones but the 17″ is the standard of MS people – yes they do leave it home but still.
Massage:
That’s an old one. And BTW, the guy who’s blog it appeared on got FIRED by Microsoft for posting the photo! They said it was a breach of “security”.
Yeah, right. As if MS has even the vaguest clue what security is!
If I were Microsoft I’d give each kid at that school a copy of Windows so they can install it on their new Mac’s. I would want the kids to install and get use to using Windows BEFORE they boot up and try OS X.
Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates stand outside the school gates wit a pile of free copies of Windows XP and Vista. By the time the gates closed they had managed to give away just two copies.
The new generation of kids won’t be as stupid as our generation was and certainly won’t make the same mistake over using Windows.
A whole new world order is opening up.
I want to get my kids macbooks this fall, but I also want them to be competitively prepped for the workplace which is a Windows world. maybe I should look into parallels solutions so we can cover the bases.
maybe,
You teach computing concepts, not platforms. Platforms change – even Windows – too rapidly.
If your kid can’t use Mac OS X in school and be able to figure out Windows if they’re stuck using it, then they have greater problems than the OS choice made by their school.
Perhaps your kid is smart enough to land a real job that uses Macs. NASA, for example:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/32837.html
Windows is dead.
Stereoidiotal
The business world still run on PC – I don’t like it but it does, it is an awkward move to go from Mac to PC and kids have a bad time with it. It is easier from PC to Mac.
I agree with “maybe” his kids should learn what the going game is.
Your condescending attitude is not going to get him or anyone to listen to your suggestions- I pity your kids if your wife was unlucky enough to have gotten drunk and pregnant by such an idiot a you, otherwise is your lack of maturity that is talking. Either way you are way off
My younger brother recieved one of the Macbooks mentioned in the article (10th grader). He brought it home all excited, but was crushed to discover the OS is locked down. His account has zero permissions on the machine, and can’t install any applications or even mount disk images. It’s ridiculous having a state-of-the-art machine in his house, and all he can use it for is MS Word for writing essays. 🙁
Yea god forbid they give adolescents laptops that cant browse myspace, play web games, and harrass eachother on IM all day in class…
FOR SHAME WASHINGTON! FOR SHAME!*waves fist in the air*
no surprise to learn they’re locked down, but highly unfortunate.
of course – presumably safari hasn’t been disabled, through which any tenth grader should be able to easily search for and determine how to circumvent the lock-down.
still – locking them down would certainly simplify administration and cost – and in an expirment like this, where it’s likely a higher-priced vendor (apple) was choosen for the laptops, they might be all about keeping maintenance down. i can’t imagine an easier maintinance environment than a school full of completley locked apples.
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