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1. Comment - Apple Ships Record Number of Macs

   (Oct 19, 2006 - 11:05 AM)

   I know they require updates, which is another one of the schools flaws, the only person that has an administrator password, is the IT department, which can never be there, so the Macs are not updated nearly as often as they should be. And yes, the school does have deep freeze, but when the programs were not set up correctly when they were installed, deep freeze doesn't help. I suppose the school could replace ALL of them, but that wouldn't really make sense considering that they were JUST replaced. Unless of course they were replaced by macs, that might help. I most certainly am NOT a fanboy, quite the opposite actually, I am always open to new ideas and concepts, I have just had too many problems with Windows to really care anymore.

2. Comment - Apple Ships Record Number of Macs

   (Oct 18, 2006 - 10:26 PM)

   As a student, The school board that I am in now Amalgamated about 10 years ago from 2 seperate school boards due to funding, when macs were particularly popular for education. One board that used macs, and one that used pcs. To this day they fight over the decision to use PCs, now, more than ever, from the move to intel, and the people on the PC side, are starting to regret it too. Since they can make absolutely no decisions, we have Levovo desktops and Laptops, with Apple Airport extreme wireless, and absolutely no reason as to why. As well as a handful of Mac Pros. We have never, ever had any problem with the Macs, and I mean never. The PCs, on the other hand, are a completely different story. I have not used one yet that has worked well, and there are many, and I use them often. If they are working, they are usually being updated and bug fixes installed. Effeciency means alot to a student, we have a wonderful Technology program that gives the school new equipment every year, but when you cannot use that equipment to do even the most simple task, it ruins every reason to have that equipment availible. We are very lucky to have Adobe Creative Suite CS2 and Macromedia Software on every computer in the school, but when it doesn't work, it doesn't help you learn. That is why I choose to use the only macs in the school, becuase they are the only computers, that are actually usable.