09/09/2003, 9:35am, EDT

Tuesday, September 9th

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Alaska district offers students PowerBooks

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Alaska's Denali Borough School District will offer a 12-inch PowerBook G4 to every high school student, according to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: "A total of 129 laptop computers are being prepared to hand over to high schoolers at Tri-Valley, Anderson and Cantwell schools." The "one-on-one" initiative offers a carry case for protection, wireless connectivity, and Microsoft software such as PowerPoint and Entourage to each student as well as training and support for students.

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124376 09/09, 9:54am, EDT Hmm

small high school.

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124379 09/09, 10:12am, EDT Hey!

I could pass for a high-school student. Maybe I could get a 12" Powerbook for free...

I knew I was growing up at the wrong time.

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124382 09/09, 10:20am, EDT bring on the porn

Now that these high schoolers have iBooks, they will be able to fill them up with lots of porn :-) What else is the internet for after all?

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124383 09/09, 10:23am, EDT re: Bring on the porn

Before making such lame, uneducated comments at least read the story. The students are getting PowerBooks, not iBooks.

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124384 09/09, 10:26am, EDT re(2): bring it on

String, it didn't strike me that the mention of "iBook" was what made the comment lame.

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124392 09/09, 11:00am, EDT Class Size

I've driven through the area, going between Anchorage and Fairbanks. I honestly didn't know that there were that *many* students in that district.

I came from a larger district though and had a graduating class of 42!

Seriously, we are one of the most Wired states and computers really are the 'great equalizer'.

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124397 09/09, 11:51am, EDT Oil for computers

Gotta love that pipeline money.

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124425 09/09, 2:45pm, EDT Lucky bastards

When I were a lad all we had a pencil and paper.

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124472 09/09, 10:19pm, EDT All we could afford

were the pencils... we drew on dirt.

I think I deserve a "12-inch PowerBook G4" dam lucky kids!

and ofcourse all the guys will try to get porn in it... it's part of nature, death and taxes.

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