[Osiris]

Schools District Ditching Macs PC's
It would seem that more and more school districts are getting rid of Macs in favor of PCs. The argument, valid or not, is that the school district needs kids to learn on a platform that 95% of the “real world” uses.



Willard said he decided on the new platform because most people use Microsoft programs in "the real world," and open source systems provide a way for the district to keep students from downloading items such as music and movies onto the school's computer hard drives -- items that, ultimately, cost the district to delete.

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/c...300_S1.article

[IBMan]

Cool, We have a novell server network running windows NT 5(2k, xp) on workstations, the other 2%(rough numbers) are mac OS x, and it's difficult to get perfect host integration...We can't get the mac os x's to properly authenticate to our proxy server. I can see where that owuld be a problem with lesser popular systems as well.

[mac_mogul]

The world is what you make it.
If you want your kids to see the world as a big blue error screen, go right ahead...

I don't see people in the 'real world' using PC's for much longer...
Kudos to the schools who have Macs, if only I had been so lucky to go to one.
My school used PC's and they are nothing but trouble. They have to upgrade them every two years, and even then its only 'basic' systems running the same software as the older 'basic' systems.
Had my school opted to switch to Macs, they would've gotten better computers for the same expense. :sigh:

[kfc469]

our school used to be 100% mac, but then they got rid of them all for win2k machines. They have since updated about 50% of those to winxp

[Win2kpatcher]

Originally posted by mac_mogul
The world is what you make it.
If you want your kids to see the world as a big blue error screen, go right ahead...

I don't see people in the 'real world' using PC's for much longer...
Kudos to the schools who have Macs, if only I had been so lucky to go to one.
My school used PC's and they are nothing but trouble. They have to upgrade them every two years, and even then its only 'basic' systems running the same software as the older 'basic' systems.
Had my school opted to switch to Macs, they would've gotten better computers for the same expense. :sigh:

I am going to have to sort of disagree here. We just spent $2,200 a piece for 10 G5 Pro's with the intel processor here at work and got better spec's for the 10 PC's we purchased at $1200 a piece...where are you getting your logic from exactly?

[The General]

Originally posted by Win2kpatcher
I am going to have to sort of disagree here. We just spent $2,200 a piece for 10 G5 Pro's with the intel processor here at work and got better spec's for the 10 PC's we purchased at $1200 a piece...where are you getting your logic from exactly?

Other than the fact that "G5 Pro's with intel processor" don't exist, where are you getting a quad-Xeon workstation for $1200? Because I will buy 2 right now.

And I don't believe mac_mogul said anything about money at all in that post.

[Win2kpatcher]

Originally posted by The General
Other than the fact that "G5 Pro's with intel processor" don't exist, where are you getting a quad-Xeon workstation for $1200? Because I will buy 2 right now.

And I don't believe mac_mogul said anything about money at all in that post.

What do you mean? They do so come with the intel processor? They come with 2 in fact.. I thought the G5 Pro's were the Intel Core Duo dual processors correct? I just saw the GHZ speed and other hardware components. I think the Core 2 Duo's we bought though will still eat it for lunch

I beleieve he mentioned something about expenses I am not sure..this is the only reason I brought it up..All I know is we speant way less and got WAY more RAM, and WAY more HD space, and WAY better video cards on the PC's for a much lower price.

[bzflag]

Quit making things up. It can't be a g5 and have an Intel processor. G5 was the processor before Apple switched to intel.

I guarantee you didn't buy anything for 1200 that will eat a new Intel-based mac for lunch.

You have never been able to directly compare anything based stricly on numbers across different platforms. You can't directly compare an Intel chip against an AMD chip, a ATI card vs an nVidia card, or a windows box against a Mac using this method. Straight numbers are really only good for comparing one product against another in the same line of product.

[The General]

Originally posted by Win2kpatcher
I think the Core 2 Duo's we bought though will still eat it for lunch

Mac Pro's are NOT called G5's. There is no way a Core 2 Duo "eats it for lunch" ... do you know anything? Mac Pro's have two dual-core Xeons. Not those crappy NetBurst Xeons, these are Woodcrest/Conroe Xeons. Get your facts straight before ever posting in the Mac section again.

Oh, and you still haven't found me a quad-conroe work station for $1200. Probably because the processors alone cost about that much.

Originally posted by bzflag
Quit making things up.

[Deathawk]

Originally posted by mac_mogul
The world is what you make it.
If you want your kids to see the world as a big blue error screen, go right ahead...

I don't see people in the 'real world' using PC's for much longer...
Kudos to the schools who have Macs, if only I had been so lucky to go to one.
My school used PC's and they are nothing but trouble. They have to upgrade them every two years, and even then its only 'basic' systems running the same software as the older 'basic' systems.
Had my school opted to switch to Macs, they would've gotten better computers for the same expense. :sigh:

The world is what you make it.
If you want your kids to see the world as a big blue error screen, go right ahead...

Uhh.. is there really any point behind these lines?

I don't see people in the 'real world' using PC's for much longer...

Okay, so when the change does happen, the schools can change with it. They aren't really buying the computers for the future.

Kudos to the schools who have Macs, if only I had been so lucky to go to one.

Because searching the web, or typing up that essay is a whole different experience when using a Mac instead of a PC!!

My school used PC's and they are nothing but trouble. They have to upgrade them every two years, and even then its only 'basic' systems running the same software as the older 'basic' systems.

Okay... your school sucks. Enough said.

Had my school opted to switch to Macs, they would've gotten better computers for the same expense.

So what Macs can you get for 300 dollars? Because schools really like the idea of spending 800+ dollars per computer.