[citation][nom]False_Dmitry_II[/nom]This means that you're telling me that it isn't just one, but MULTIPLE schools putting MACBOOKS on the PUBLIC BUDGET?!That's starting to make me angry instead of just thinking it's a huge joke.[/citation]
At one point my high school ditched the XP based computers (they were showing age) for brand new MacBooks (identical to the ones in the Frontline story) and iMacs all over the school. I thought (and still think) it was silly that they 1) changed their ENTIRE infrastructure to be based on OS X from WinXP, 2) spent obscene amounts of money on the computers, 3) bought computers that were incompatible with ~90-98% of the school's population, and 4) we typically used Citrix to run XP on the computers anyway. Why would you buy MacBooks to run XP?
I remember the army of "Geniuses" who spent their day setting up all of the MacBooks and the hilarity of the teachers when they complained about how slow the computers were (with the whole dock lit up like a Christmas Tree). It was just a big pain for everyone because just when the faculty got used to using their Windows-based laptops, the district thrust them into MacBooks.
This district is not the first, nor the last, to buy MacBooks for their schools.