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Schools need Macs at that price point or they can’t buy them .
by zitterbewegung 6y ago
Schools need Macs at that price point or they can’t buy them .
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoSchools need Macs?
- duxup 6y agoWhat do you mean by that?
- saagarjha 6y agoSchools like buying Macs, and they don't particularly care about performance. The low-end iMac has always been a top seller to lower education because a kid isn't going to complain that their computer takes four minutes to boot.
- duxup 6y agoThat doesn't explain "Schools need Macs at that price point or they can’t buy them ."
- saagarjha 6y agoI'm not sure what kind of explanation you're looking for beyond "more expensive Macs will not be bought".
- duxup 6y agoMaybe I misread the comment but it was a response to someone noting how expensive they were... so I read it as saying that they're supposed to be that expensive so schools would buy that. That seemed odd.
- chipotle_coyote 6y agoSchools have historically liked buying Macs; I'm not sure how true that is anymore. Chromebooks have swept the schools, both because they're very cheap and because Google has, from what I've read, just terrific classroom management software compared to most competitors. More recently Apple has been pushing the iPad into education pretty hard -- competition from the Chromebook is arguably why the $329 iPad ($299 for education) exists. Macs are increasingly positioned as being for teachers and administrators, not students.
- brian_herman__ 6y agoSchools don't need Macs... it would be the other way around iMacs need schools.
- damnyou 6y agoIt's only rich schools that buy them, and most places that do would be better off without them.
- briandear 6y agoUntil you have to manage a lab full of Windows, then MAC becomes a much better value. With a Mac you don’t have to buy MS office, you get iWork. You also get iMovie, GarageBand and other Apple software that covers almost everything a typical school would need. And you never have to buy updates for either the OS or the other Apple software. You also have less malware to deal with. Having worked at a school with labs full of Windows machines, the real cost of IT support is not to be discounted. Maybe a Mac isn’t the best solution for everyone, but in the school environment, they’re great. Most schools have kids doing video projects, presentations, desktop publishing, etc. —- tasks for which an out of the box iMac can handle with aplomb and with minimal hassle or additional expense. Sure there are probably FOSS alternatives, but if you are the computer lab teacher, the last thing you have time for is managing a lab full of temperamental Linux boxes and the multiple flavors of FOSS software alternatives that frankly, aren’t that good compared to what Mac gives you included. For example, what’s a FOSS version of iMovie that works so powerfully and intuitively?
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- firekvz 6y agoWhole MS 365 suite is free for schools, even the windows licenses are free, so... What are you talking about?
- damnyou 6y agoI'm imagining this being said to the principal of a local rural school in, like, Ghana.
- reaperducer 6y agoSpend $x now on Macs, or spend more later? I should hope that the principal of any school would understand basic math.