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School district deploys 700 flat-panel iMacs

updated 08:55 am EDT, Mon July 28, 2003

 
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The Yuma school district in Arizona is completing in project worth about $1 million, according to The Yuma Sun: "the district was able to come up with the funds for the much-needed project by using 'soft capital' funds to make the lease agreement with Apple. The district was able to make a great deal with Apple for the lease agreement. 'We ended up saving about $200,000 on the deal and the beauty of the lease is that we can just turn the computers in for new ones when the lease is up."


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    Panther?

    " When teachers and principals return to school in August in Yuma School District 1, they might be surprised to see brand-new i-Mac computers on their desks loaded with Apple's newest operating system — OS X version 10.3."

    How did they score that????

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    Just send 'em back???

    Having been in charge of returning leased computers for a 350+ desktop organization, "just send them back" ends up costing as much as if you had bought them outright. You have:
    * Cost of paying someone to track the computers and wipe the HD's, box them up, and administer the lease.
    * Cost of shipping them back
    * Storage of the boxes (esp. with the iMac)

    Leasing PC's sounds great until you have to deal with the back end of the lease. The costs easily double/triple the TCO of the leased computers...

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    Just send 'em back

    And when you're finished paying - you can just send 'em back!

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    send them back 2

    I worked for a school district that did it. What a pain in the A$$. Apple doesn't want your old computers. They get someone who buys the computers to contact you. That's where your contact with Apple ends and then you're dealing with this buyer/shipping company.

    Leasing isn't a bad way to go to get new technology in the schools, but I'm sure the Yuma school district never did anything like this before.

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    No way they get Panther

    That has to be a typo...there is no way Apple will have Panther ready in a month....they didn't even give a release date at the Expo. I can't imagine they would give it to the school district early, but maybe a month is all they need. Here's hoping...

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    imacs, though?

    i didn't notice the story saying exactly which schools in the district are getting these imacs, but im hoping that they are the jr high and older. lcd screen imacs and little kids are a bad combination. They should've just bought emacs, they are just as fast and about half the price (they quote each machine at $1700 retail, which means that its the 17" imac)

    of course, the image in the story is of a wall of boxes, meaning they already purchased them.

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