• Google sells $399 Chromebooks to schools for $99
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Our school's getting 12 of these for our robotics. [editline]13th December 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Daniel Smith;38792977][thumb]http://imgkk.com/i/ve2p.png[/thumb] [thumb]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BkB56Wqla10/Tc6Vr3YOWdI/AAAAAAAAATM/co-LXcJKR-s/s1600/GalacticEmpireLogo.jpg[/thumb] ?[/QUOTE] Why is it not aligned, color wise?
It's not about the money. It's about sending a Message to Apple.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;38800841]oh man remember that thing [IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/XO-Beta1-mikemcgregor-2.jpg/650px-XO-Beta1-mikemcgregor-2.jpg[/IMG] 1 GB flash memory 256 MB DRAM AMD Geode LX700[/QUOTE]Wasn't these the laptops they gave to African children so they could learn to read and write?
Dad was the lead technology administrator for the city school district here up until last year, and he's been calling this for years. Google is trying to pry out Microsoft, like Microsoft did with Apple back in the day. Daddio was a huge advocate for making the switch within our district, as Microsoft's business practices waste literally millions of dollars each year from our suburban city's technology budget, whereas many of Google's education-critical services, like their answer to Microsoft Office (GoogleDocs) are open source and free to use. Poppa's budget plan would have saved something like two million smackers a year compared to the Microsoft package. BUT, administrative politics stepped in and shut the whole thing down. Microsoft paid for more board directors' golf trips. Google will have a hill to climb to edge into this market! I hope they succeed, because they offer much better products at much lower prices, but school districts have a lot more corruption than you might suspect, and the backroom pocket-liners will be resistant to unsaddling their money horse.
I'd buy one for $99
[QUOTE=Killuah;38791795]And almost no software of the scientific world runs on them, AWESOME. Have fun with your arts degree mister taxi driver.[/QUOTE] lmao you have no idea what are you talking about do you? macintosh is used all the time in the "scientific world". laboratories often use Mac's and PC's side-by-side, it's why connectivity between those two platforms is an important feature for any application used in that situation. I know because i've actually seen it in use at hospitals and laboratories you see, unlike FP, the "scientific world" doesn't use stuff that appeals to their fanboy complex, they use everything on a basis of cost, ease of use, performance, etc etc. time wasted on fumbling with hardware is time wasted that could have been spent continuing research, just as time wasted fumbling on interfaces is. and you say "have fun with your arts degree" but you sound like such an absolute knob saying that, as if having an arts degree is something bad ffs stop talking about things you don't anything about
[QUOTE=thisispain;38812684]lmao you have no idea what are you talking about do you? macintosh is used all the time in the "scientific world". laboratories often use Mac's and PC's side-by-side, it's why connectivity between those two platforms is an important feature for any application used in that situation. I know because i've actually seen it in use at hospitals and laboratories you see, unlike FP, the "scientific world" doesn't use stuff that appeals to their fanboy complex, they use everything on a basis of cost, ease of use, performance, etc etc. time wasted on fumbling with hardware is time wasted that could have been spent continuing research, just as time wasted fumbling on interfaces is. and you say "have fun with your arts degree" but you sound like such an absolute knob saying that, as if having an arts degree is something bad ffs stop talking about things you don't anything about[/QUOTE] hey thisispain you're the one who's being ignorant atm we're talking about tablets, iOS
[QUOTE=Zally13;38812799]hey thisispain you're the one who's being ignorant atm we're talking about tablets, iOS[/QUOTE] ok then i'm just confused about what tablets have to do with the "scientific world" and how that translates to art degrees
[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38791767]And they aren't built like utter shit and they have sufficient hardware to actually run their OS smoothly.[/QUOTE] Only problem I have with iPads in education is basically management, to my knowledge you really can't manage what people do on the iPads so like you could browse porn on a school iPad as long as safari/chrome/dolphin/opera were all set to private browsing mode You can still block websites with the network proxy, and to my reading some schools around here that use iPads in education use Telstra 3G under the education field, making blocking impossible Androids on the other hand you could practically manage but you're always going to have a group of kids way ahead of the schools league and just install a custom ROM.
[QUOTE=nintenman1;38790898]That's a nice gesture, but if I were buying systems for a district I would rather roll out something that is more manageable and configurable... chrome OS has very limited usability for anything outside of web browsing.[/QUOTE] That's exactly what schools want.
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