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Apple Wins Florida School Contract for 30,000 iBooks (UPDATE)

by , 8:35 AM EDT, July 27th, 2005

Apple Computer announced Wednesday it has won a contract with Broward County, Fla. Public Schools to supply it with 30,000 iBook laptops to be used by its students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.

The Broward County school system is the sixth largest school district in the U.S. with a total of 272,691 students. The district has 251 schools serving students that speak 56 languages.

The school district reported a 2004/2005 budget of US$4.14 billion. Specifics of the contract and its bid were not immediately available from representatives of the school district.

"As one of the nation's leading school districts, Broward County Public Schools has long used technology to enhance teaching and learning," said Dr. Frank Till, superintendent of Broward County Public Schools, in a prepared statement distributed by Apple's public relations department. "The new iBooks are ideally suited to meet the needs of our students, and demonstrate Apple's commitment to education."

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Subject: RC, where are ya?
Close Name:kenaustus Posts: 601 Joined: 27 Jun 2003
Subject: RC's busy . . .

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

Then he has to find another out of date link.

View Name:RealityCheck -   Troll Posts: 392 Joined: 06 May 2004
Subject: After The Trial, They'll Switch To Dell
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Subject: Thats some good azz crack you smoke RC...
Close Name:NeverFade Posts: 74 Joined: 17 Mar 2002
Subject: not for 4 years they won't

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

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Subject: The WERE using Dells - now they've switched to Macs!
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Subject: RC Has No Facts
Close Name:Intruder -   TMO Mac Specialist Posts: 2835 Joined: 07 Jul 2004
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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.

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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.

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Subject: MACOBSERVER IS SERIOUSLY TURNING ME OFF BECAUSE OF RC
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Close Name:Biff Posts: 1479 Joined: 08 Apr 2004
Subject: TMO just lost 1 dumb guest!

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.

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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

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