As a resident of Broward County and a big Apple supporter, I am happy to hear that our school districts are taking advantage of what Apple has to offer. Between the IPods and IBooks education should take on a whole new learning experience for students.

I don't understand why people continually insist on say IPod and IBook! I know it's not a huge deal but why!? It's iPod and iBook.

RC, could you please comment on Apple's most recent winning move in education? Congrats to that County for a great contract...you will not regret it!

No viruses, no malware, no Winblows, no crappy PCs...GO APPLE!

Trying to comprehend 30,000 new iLemmings all in one hit.

Then he has to find another out of date link.

Like so many other school districts, the Apple RDF hype gives way to the iBook's lack of durability and quality problems, and they'll be dumped. Check the facts:
http://www.themacobserver.com/article/2005/04/29.6.shtml

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Like so many other school districts, the Apple RDF hype gives way to the iBook's lack of durability and quality problems, and they'll be dumped. Check the facts:
http://www.themacobserver.com/article/2005/04/29.6.shtml

....too bad your lil fact checking still dismisses 30,000 new Mac users and more on the way. Huuuuge loss for you RC, Huuuuuge!

not for 4 years they won't, and by then, windows VISTA will be more of a laughing stock than it already is!

nt

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Like so many other school districts, the Apple RDF hype gives way to the iBook's lack of durability and quality problems, and they'll be dumped. Check the facts:
http://www.themacobserver.com/article/2005/04/29.6.shtml

Sadly, the article states that the switch was made due to dollars, not to an imaginary lack of iBook durbility and quality.

In fact, considering the environment they were used in, the iBooks held up surprisingly well.

I know our company flirted with Dell laptops for a while. Had a 50% (I am not making that up) failure rate. Everything from hard drives to motherboards. And those were the "higher end" laptops. The IBM Thinkpads had the best record. Apple laptops were not tried (Windows-only support contract).

I wish them luck.

But here's some funny info. on this sad, little worm.

1) Claims to be a Network Admin. That's hysterical if not a little frightening if it was actually true.

2) Has trolled TMO for a year and three months. Anyone who may have tried to coax this pathetic troll to "get a life" obviously spoke to deaf ears. Or couldn't cut through the heavy medication.

3) Three hundred and eighty-two worthless, angry, delusional lies posted to a Mac news forum and counting. That's 0.85 per day every day on average. See comments from number two on having a life. Also, I can't help but to be amazed that one company can become such a singular obsession and outlet for an incredible amount of rage, hatred, and ridicule from one sad and lonely person. Reminds me of John Hinckley, Jr. and his obsessions.

Entertaining? Maybe. Kind of like the footage of a train wreck or trash talk from a pro wrestler.

Can you imagine waking up in the morning and thinking "Well, time for some coffee, then I'll read the paper, and then I'd better log onto the Internet to post disparaging comments on a Macintosh news site."

I guess a troll's life is dull, but someone's gotta do it.

RC's comments were a little ammusing a year and a half ago...but now I'm so tired of reading news and then the forums when the forums have RC Mac fans asking him to comment on these articles...I've never felt the urge to switch over to another site like Maccentral before. I'm glad I didn't spend time to register to this forum. I will NOT "get my Mac news here from now on."

Macobserver, you lost a reader due to your sickening and tiresome Macobserver forum troll.

Laters. Maccentral.com, Macnn.com, Macminute.com, Macbytes.com here I come.

If you let the trolls drive you away, then they've won.

Dude I spent weeks trying to figure out how to register for TMO forums. It totally wasn't worth all that time. It took so much time. And like I thought I was coming to TMO due to their constantly updating list of Apple and Mac news stories, but it turns out I was really coming here to read the user comments. So I'm gonna try to find a better Mac user comments site.

Also you should make me happy by shutting off RC's account. Cause he could never ever sign up with another name and come back. And since that's such a great solution, I won't offer a better one.

Cheers.

RE: "Well, time for some coffee, then I'll read the paper, and then I'd better log onto the Internet to post disparaging comments on a Macintosh news site."

THAT'S HYSTERICAL! I just spewed coffee on my keyboard. Thanks for the laugh!

: D

You are an idiot. Broward county is over 85% Mac based with a significant investment in infrastructure and human capital resources to support their Mac based intiatives. These 30,000 iBooks are only a REFRESH. Mac's will be around in Broward for a VERY long time.

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RealityCheck wrote:
Like so many other school districts, the Apple RDF hype gives way to the iBook's lack of durability and quality problems, and they'll be dumped. Check the facts:
http://www.themacobserver.com/article/2005/04/29.6.shtml

Those laptops are 4 years old and held up so well under the abuse of school kids that there is still overwhleming demand for them. Go re-check your facts
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784093536

SCORE!!!! Finally my school district does something right, can't wait to go back to school in... 9 DAYS!!! hopefully I'll be able to get my hands on one for our tv production class so we don't have to use the extremely old crappy iMac G4's

684 posts, with 1.65 posts per day!

*YOU* need to get a life....

Signed,

An Apple Employee Vetran

"684 posts, with 1.65 posts per day!

*YOU* need to get a life.... "

Yes, but every one of HIS posts isn't a bald faced lie.

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"684 posts, with 1.65 posts per day!

*YOU* need to get a life.... "

Yes, but every one of HIS posts isn't a bald faced lie.

Actually, I meant to say a few of Intruder's posts don't have lies. Most of them do. "Intruder alert!" hahaha!