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Oh.  Well I live in Microsoft's backyard, so its hard to find a lot of Macs around here.  My other school had a few Linux boxes for students to check their schedules and all that as kiosks.

lucky

i have never sen a room with only macs (besides my house)

Yeah, I'm still in high school right now, and while there are only PC's in the classrooms and computer labs, the multimedia lab has 6 G5's with 23" cinema displays.

My campus being mostly Macs is what got me interested in them. Now that I have gotten used to one, the school district that I work for is an  Apple Distinguished School.

This is taken from my school's website:
*** is a leader in the implementation of technology in the classroom. With over 2400 computers in the district, *** is proud to have one of the best student to computer ratios in the state. *** is adjusting to meet the educational needs of today's students by focusing its efforts in deployment of laptop computers, as recent technology trends have emphasized the importance of mobile computing. The 2006/2007 school year brings the addition of 300 laptop computers to the district for use in the classroom. Combined with the current laptop and cart inventory, the district has deployed three laptop carts in each elementary building, along with a dedicated computer lab in each building. *** Middle School has eleven laptop carts that are shared among the three grade levels along with a dedicated computer lab equipped for multimedia development. *** Junior High has five mobile laptop carts along with three dedicated labs, two of which are multimedia development labs. *** High School houses an entire wing dedicated to technology, with five labs dedicated to technology education. In addition to the Technology Wing, the High School has a dedicated Graphic Arts lab, as well as two labs associated with the Media Center. These numbers are supplemented by three laptop carts that serve as mobile computer labs. Each teacher is issued a laptop with training and access to a full time Technology Integration Specialist for assistance in incorporating technology into the curriculum. *** is one of the few districts to employ a Technology Integrationalist whose primary goal is to assist faculty in using technology to help enhance the students' educational experience.

All computers mentioned above are Macs! Gotta love 'em!

We have issues with the macs all the time - school computers by definition suck.

I wish my school had Macs.  My day would feel so much better.  I guess school admins don't want Macs usually because it will cut down on what they will have to fix and thus put them out of a job?  I know my old school had an admin that would deliberately sabotage the Unix server just so he could have more work to do and be a hero to fix the problems he himself created.

Holy Crap Dudes!
My school has windows computers...
15 minutes to start up...
15 minutes to log on...
45 minutes of class time...

Also it is not just a crap computer thing, these  boxes have 512 megs of ram and a 2 Gz processor.
Forced to use Movie Maker...
Forced to use word...
Forced to use internet explorer...
Forced to use windows...
I can't wait to get a Mac, I made 1000 dollars last summer and bought a racing bike,
3000 dollars this year for a top of the line 17' Mac Book Pro *I hope the pressure washing business works*
If I have any money left over *not vary likely*  I am buying my school an iMac

At least its better than 15
And I know Macs don't take 15 minutes to start up
And yes I know the computers are loaded
Ours are loaded, but not with alot, I go look at all the stuff on the C drive
I wanted to ftp something at school (my webhosting service is blocked at school, and IP too) so I spent 15 minutes sloping around in the C drive and finaly found it! Click on it, "The system admin has blocked the comand prompt", one last try .bat files, and whdda you know I did it there goes 30 mins

P.S. did I mention I was 12?

Last edited by rcmatt4321 (2007-04-07 8:51 pm)

What are your specs
(I run windows and Ubuntu also, two hard drives though)
I have lots of crap on mine also

Last edited by rcmatt4321 (2007-04-07 9:03 pm)

Technical support and IT is NOT about service to their customers.

YEA! we finally moved to macs, i hate all the kids that mess around in photobooth though, it gets really old

The grade school district I went to, as well as my high school district were 100% Macs.  Last year I worked at the grade school district helping in the IT department and the school decided they were going to switch over to PCs.  The network they had set up with X-serves was beautiful, rarely had a problem.

I am working there again starting in a couple weeks (summer job), and I am almost dreading it.  From what I hear there are all sorts of things going on between the company that is setting up the network, the IT guy I work for who is all about Macs, and the administration. It should be fun.