Is the education market part of Apple's past?
At one time Macs were "the education computer". Today, PCs are taking over the educaton market http://www.notebookreview.com/default.aspx?newsID=1910 and Apple seems to be moving on to bigger and better things http://news.com.com/Apple+sells+supe...tag=macintouch
Has Apple for the most part let this market go?
Has Apple for the most part let this market go?
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Originally posted by Splinemodel
Right now Macs cost a good bit more up front, and it's not like PC's are damn near unusable anymore, the way they once were. Granted, a network of PCs always manages to incur an extremely high service cost, but it's very easy to overlook that.
yea, it is like people who say "I cant afford a better car", they are shocked and amazed when you point out the fact that with all of the money they put into fixing the crap bucket, they coulda had a nice car to start with.
I could see this kind of update schedule in the cad class rooms or the video/computer graphics classes, but in the school here that is only two classrooms!
just for the record, in the libarary at said local HS before I graduated last month, I discovered to my surprise, that the three remaining then-banished-to-the-corner iMac rev a's could do anything the much newer and faster PCs could do. - even on os8.6
Originally posted by a_greer
I realy wonder about the upgrade freguency of the computers now in schools, the local schools got all new 1.8ghz P4s with 60 gig hdds and 256 megs of ram 2 years ago and now they are upgradeing again! yep, 3300 shiney new dells,and for what?
I could see this kind of update schedule in the cad class rooms or the video/computer graphics classes, but in the school here that is only two classrooms!
just for the record, in the libarary at said local HS before I graduated last month, I discovered to my surprise, that the three remaining then-banished-to-the-corner iMac rev a's could do anything the much newer and faster PCs could do. - even on os8.6
schools in NY get a tech budget every year that they must spend or it goes to waste. this usually results in a frenzy the day before the deadline and the purchase of a ton of crap they'll never use or have no need for or is excess.
At ohio university, where i did my undergrad, there was like one mac on the entire campus. that sucked.
Originally posted by Beige_G3
I am not being critical of the Mac. I am just wondering if education is in their long term plans ?
well according to apple, they are more on the one on one with schools, and doing more with ibooks for each student instead of just selling a bunch of desktops cheaply to the schools.
I remember just *4* years ago when Apple had twice the marketshare of it's nearest competitor in education sales. Damn, that's just sad.
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