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11 y.o. pees on 36k worth of school's Macbooks

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I emailed this to one of our vendor tech guys who works in Mechanicsburg, and the school is right down the road from his house. I joked that he might be on-site tomorrow with latex gloves and a hot bucket of water to dip the Macs in and let them dry out a month.

He guessed that the kid figured that's just what you do with Macs .. hahaha.
I'm close to the MD line, so its borderline hillbilly/redneck around here.
 
No way a kid could destroy that much equipment just by peeing on it. I bet he peed on a stack of equipment worth that much and maybe ruined a couple machines. Unless somehow it was just a stack of laptops...
 
Guess mom and dad are going to need second jobs. Maybe someone should sell kid insurance. It could cover whatever damage junior does by urinating on things.
 
WT said:
I consider myself a normal PA semi-redneck, but these people ... they surround me. They give the state a bad name...
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uh, you guys elected santorum for 16 years... i don't think anything tops that.
 
Puppies04 said:
What the fuck is a school doing with macbooks? "Heh kids today we are going to teach you how to use an OS about 1% of computer users will ever come across in a work environment"
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Even in the 90s, schools had more Macs than PCs. Overwhelmingly, Mac outnumbered WinTel machines public schools. It's just the way it is. Were you oblivious to this fact?

Still, I thought there were special cheap Macbooks for schools that didn't have the aluminum unibody design. Why on earth do they need to be Macbook PRO laptops?
 
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eits said:
uh, you guys elected santorum for 16 years... i don't think anything tops that.
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When you say 'you', please note that I am politically apathetic, and have never voted. So in that case, technically >> I << didn't give him my vote. We should have just given Rendell more $$ and crossed our fingers.

Back on topic, we brought a truckload of Macs into our school system during the 'Classroom For the Future' initiative, simply because they were much better laptops than the Lenovo units available. This was the first year of the Intel/Lenovo merger, and they were just junk.

Since they achieved a foothold, they popped up everywhere like rabbits. We have 6 Mac carts and 2 full labs of them, and teachers seem to like them simply because it dumbs down the experience necessary to using a computer. The cart pic a few posts above is representative of what we use, and any kid with a full sac could pretty much wet down an entire cart of them. To say they are ruined is a bit of a stretch, but there are health issues that prevent them from being re-used.
 
LOL_Wut_Axel said:
why would school children need a laptop this expensive?
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Keep in mind schools are typically on a 5 year replacement cycle, so what we buy new in 2007 is just now ready to be replaced on a summer replacement cycle. And for those that don't know, school budgets have been drastically cut in recent years (one local inner city school in my county is 20 mil in debt leading into next school year) so those 5 year cycles are now being pushed to 6 years.

You HAVE to buy a good bit ahead of the curve to make that computer relevant and capable of running newer software up to 6 years out.
 
If you really wanted to be ahead of the hardware curve and are budget conscious, you would have bought regular laptops for the classroom environment you pretentious hippy.
 
SSSnail said:
If you really wanted to be ahead of the hardware curve and are budget conscious, you would have bought regular laptops for the classroom environment you pretentious hippy.
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Oh SSSnail, I expected your arrival much sooner, but at least your late arrival allowed us to converse without resulting to bashing. What you failed to grasp is the fact that the state subsidized a HUGE chunk of the price of these Macs via the CFF grant money, and they were CLEARLY a better laptop than the Levovo model provided via the CFF program.

I did not hear any positive comments from any of the schools who purchased the Lenovos, and convo's with the techs who worked to support them echoed those same comments. The cases flexed so badly you could grasp a corner of the laptop and feel the HD cage vibrating from the pressure on the case.

Oh, and I don't even own a turtleneck, I am as far from a pretentious hippy as you could imagine. I usta own a lifted Toyota pickup and ride ATVs. 😀
 
Most, (don't jump on me for saying that word), school tech support personnel are either incompetent, or lazy, our both. They'll recommend what gives them the least amount of work and at the same time satisfy the bling factor. Tell me I'm wrong.

P.s. You're still a hippy. :colbert:
 
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