education
08/23/2006, 6:35pm, EDT
Wednesday, August 23rd
Free MacBook to all Ringling Freshmen
The Ringling School Of Art And Design in Florida is loaning MacBooks to all incoming freshmen who are enrolled in the first year of their Core Studio Program. The laptops are free of charge, but must be returned upon graduation (or dropping out); each MacBook includes a host of pre-installed software, including Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office. The MacBook was chosen for its ability to run both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows and its portability, according to the school. The new MacBooks will help the school integrate technology with learning and ensure that its Student to Computer ratio of 2:1 continues. Meanwhile, the Australian education departments seems to have declared war on Macs, according to a new report. The report claims dwindling support for Macs and that some Macs are being replaced by lower cost desktop PCs.
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Of course back then, we thought MacPaint was greater than sliced bread!
Please elaborate.
Expecting 4 useful years out of a Mac is easy. My G4 733Mhz can still surf the web, read email, handle database and software development, run MS office, just fine thanks.
All of my Macs have been in use for 4+ years before I decide to upgrade. I just retired my 700Mhz G4 iMac only because I got a deal on a refurb Intel iMac.
And my 20GB 2nd gen iPod is still effortlessly crankin' out the tunes & podcasts ;-)