[P1] Which PC based laptop is comparable to the iBook ??

[david]

On 1/20/03 1:11 AM, "Charles Martin" <chasm at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not trying to start trouble, and I know you are probably not the
> person who decided to standardise on PC notebooks, but I have to ask:
>
yes you are :-)
> 
> How much money, time and effort will your lab waste before figuring out
> that for $20,000 they could have gotten a mobile lab like this
> (http://www.apple.com/education/cart/) and had a TINY fraction of the
> problems, a MUCH higher rate of dependability and probably let go
> several of their expensive IT employees, saving many times the cost?
> 
> (to say nothing of the documented and rapid improvement in the actual
> user experience of the students and teachers!)
> 
As you say, I didn¹t make the decision and I argued against it. What amazes
me is that a) we already had 2 mobile iBook labs that were working very well
and b) we had a long history of admin and teachers having Win notebooks with
nothing but trouble. But hey, you can¹t teach a PC centric IT specialist
anything.

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