Through the years Florida has shown us time and time again why we should all stay the hell away from her. The ballot debacle of 2000, hurricanes, alligators in your pool, and of course, 2 Fast 2 Furious... Ok that movie isn't really Florida's fault but we have to blame someone.
Now It looks like Florida may have gone and made it personal by throwing away perfectly good iMacs, eMacs, and MacBooks. You've gone to far!
Thanks to our mad ninja skills, and our insane ability to use the internet, we have uncovered shocking, sickening, down right inhumane photographs of Macs lined up stacked, and tossed together. All ready to be put to pasture. For those with weak hearts, we recommend that you click here instead of reading on.
As you can sere there is a virtual death panel of Macs ready to be sent to the scrap yard.
Lori M. White, Superintendent of Schools for Florida's Sarasota County did state that
"It is unfortunate that there was some mis-information in this news story. These computers that were between five and ten years old will be assessed by our tech staff to determine which machines can be refurbished and given to families. This program operates through donated goods and services. Those machines that cannot be refurbished will be removed by a state-approved recycling company for disposal. We receive a small check for this service and it eliminates our cost for electronic disposal.Staff can receive a computer, but the operating system and all software must be removed.
Our licensing agreements do not allow us to transfer this on computers to other owners. The benefit of a computer without the operating system is limited and is not very cost effective when considering the cost of installing new software.”
It does seem like such a waste to recycle perfectly good Macs, approximately 208 Macs, because most families will not be able to purchased to required OS or software updates needed after the machines are wiped, one would think that there is a non-profit out there willing to refurbish these Macs for other people or organizations.
Oh Florida, how you make the rest of America worry so.
Via CultOfMac
CaptainV45
August 13, 2009 at 7:54am
How sad. :-( I would be more than happy to take those Macs off their hands, I have every version of the OS since OS 7.5
bullworh
August 13, 2009 at 7:52am
Why don't they put these computers on Ebay , make a little money for the school ? Or maybe some charity could afford to put an OS on them for people who normally couldn't afford one. God forbid maybe even a free LINIX OS . I gave my old bondi blue iMac to a friend and installed Yellow Dog OS I had bought on Ebay for $5 and it's still kickin' . GEO.
Ben
August 12, 2009 at 6:19pm
I really would like to think that if someone contacted Apple, they might be willing to allow a base install of an older version of OS X on these systems- enough to make them useable.
Whatever happens, don't show this site/article to any Low End Mac columnists- ;)
