On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I set this up 2 years ago, and it has been near-zero maintenance. > > In the meantime, the school district purchased one MacBook for every fourth > grade > teacher, and a rolling cart of 35 MacBooks for each school that each fourth > grade > classroom gets access to one day a week. While this has generally been seen as > positive, and it is good getting a laptop into each student's hands, IMO they > did it > completely wrong by not maintaining them centrally. Each MacBook installs its > own > applications, and things get screwed up all the time. > > I just wonder, if an objective assessment were made, if they would not have > chosen to > go with Linux netbooks and a beefy server for every classroom, which could > have been > had for (I think) a similar cost to the smaller number of MacBooks. ----------------------------- Said the control freak. Bad Steve! Personalizing an asset is part of the fun of ownership, right? In your lab the environment was sterile and not fun for fourth graders, but more for university students in a lab on campus. I understand that it worked, and over time it was less frustrating for IT staff in the school. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
