Finally! the school updated its supplys!

[collared_drifte]

ok, my school just updated all of their computers and electronic supplys, instead of those old eMacs and iMacs, every class has the NEW iMacs. But whats weird is that apparently some new program at my school gave every teacher an iPod, to *supposedly* use for educational purposes. they are the 5gens... and so far some of my teachers have made Movies on the iMacs and showed them from the iPod on TV to teach a lesson. i think im getting smarter. haha.
The other kids at my school are all amazed by these objects... i for one, am kind of mad cause now whenever i go to my room to use the computer, im gonna think of being at school, (cause i have the same iMac) the only difference is i have 1 gig of RAM and 250 gigs on the drive... yummy.

[afalconsvick]

Is this a College or a High School?

[ipodphoto30]

this is cool. the schools have finally gotten smart enough with what people actually want to see in school.

i'd like to learn how to use a mac if they had those all over my school. and it's pretty cool how the teachers all got an ipod themselves. i know if my teachers did they'd be asking me how to use it and lots of tutorials to make the most of their ipod.

[collared_drifte]

its a middle school. im in 8th grade... mililani hawaii...

[MellowTone41]

I guess that's what you get in one of the biggest tourist states in the country. The state has enough money for middle schools to afford new computers. Must be nice.

[ArcticW]

Originally posted by collared_drifte
ok, my school just updated all of their computers and electronic supplys, instead of those old eMacs and iMacs, every class has the NEW iMacs. But whats weird is that apparently some new program at my school gave every teacher an iPod, to *supposedly* use for educational purposes. they are the 5gens... and so far some of my teachers have made Movies on the iMacs and showed them from the iPod on TV to teach a lesson. i think im getting smarter. haha.
The other kids at my school are all amazed by these objects... i for one, am kind of mad cause now whenever i go to my room to use the computer, im gonna think of being at school, (cause i have the same iMac) the only difference is i have 1 gig of RAM and 250 gigs on the drive... yummy.

Im truly happy that your public school district has the funds to afford new iMacs and iPods for your students and faculty, while my UNIVERSITY can't seem to come up with the money to update the itunes version 3 on our p.o.s. DELLS! :mad:

also, if the teachers leave the school or retire, do they have to surrender the iPod at the end of their term?

[Kristiano]

Originally posted by ArcticW
Im truly happy that your public school district has the funds to afford new iMacs and iPods for your students and faculty, while my UNIVERSITY can't seem to come up with the money to update the itunes version 3 on our p.o.s. DELLS! :mad:

also, if the teachers leave the school or retire, do they have to surrender the iPod at the end of their term?

Isn't iTunes like free? :confused:

[afalconsvick]

Originally posted by Kristiano
Isn't iTunes like free? :confused:

LMAO

[ArcticW]

Originally posted by afalconsvick
LMAO

Yeah, it SHOULD be free, but only for personal consumption. For the UNiversity to download it for public use, Apple charges a license fee ......

[collared_drifte]

the iPods stay with the school if a teacher leaves, but the teachers can use them for their own personal usage. today our library chucked the eMacs, and put in the iMacs. woohoo. whats cool is that when in other schools to set up new computers it takes a matter of a fiew months... (wiring, cables, instulattions and etc) but with the macs this is all happening within a week...
now where ever i turn i see an airport extreame on the ceiling.. looks like UFOS are taking over. Haha.
does anybody here know of schools nearby them that have that program wear every student is required to have an iBook? just curious. GOOD THING, that our school dosent do that. (frick no im not paying 1000 dollars for a crappy iBook!)

oh, and the greatest feat, I AM USING ENTOURAGE... muhahahaha....

[queenlil09]

Originally posted by collared_drifte
the iPods stay with the school if a teacher leaves, but the teachers can use them for their own personal usage. today our library chucked the eMacs, and put in the iMacs. woohoo. whats cool is that when in other schools to set up new computers it takes a matter of a fiew months... (wiring, cables, instulattions and etc) but with the macs this is all happening within a week...
now where ever i turn i see an airport extreame on the ceiling.. looks like UFOS are taking over. Haha.
does anybody here know of schools nearby them that have that program wear every student is required to have an iBook? just curious. GOOD THING, that our school dosent do that. (frick no im not paying 1000 dollars for a crappy iBook!)

oh, and the greatest feat, I AM USING ENTOURAGE... muhahahaha....

Are you at a public or private school?
My college has a contract with Dell, so we're required to purchase Dells through the school for 1500 dollars unless we show proof we have a laptop of our own.

[mjmoonwalker]

My school (JH/HS) [Private school] has 2 PCs, a couple junky old iMacs from 1998 (more like 5) in the library, and 30 or so Mac Minis in the computer lab. We restart them each day...cuz they suck. Not a great impression of Macs...

[JohnFord]

My school has about 40 PowerMac Dual G5 2.5GHz with 20" Apple Cinema Displays. I love them. We also have a bunch of internally built PC's (anywhere from P4 1.8GHz to 3.6GHz, 512MB ram to 2gb of ram, 17" CRT to 19" LCD, Radeon 7000 to X700)

Macs arent bad, in fact OS X is the best platform i have ever used, and i say that comming from a diverse OS background (Many linuxes, windows 3.1 to XP X64/Vista, AIX, Solaris and Mac OS < 9)

I am hopping to get a MacBook Pro soon, which gives you an idea how good i think Macs are. The problem is when schools dont configure their systems well, be it PC, Mac or other Unix.

My Highschool which was in a pretty rich area of toronto (Markland Woods fyi) had P3 500MHz machines, and that was 1 year ago. Be happy that you even have eMacs, and mac in general.

[Lynch]

I go to Virginia Tech and we have this thing called the math emporium. My school bought a department store, renovated it and put in close to 550 computers in there in pods of 6 computers each. They just revamped all the computers in there to 20" iMacs, not too sure on the rest of the specs....but they're nice. Here's a picture of the old computers in there(Note: these are the old computers and have since replaced all of these to the new iMacs.)
http://ematusov.soe.udel.edu/classrooms/images/VA%20Math%20Emporium.jpg

That's only one of our computing facilities. There are many other labs spread throughout campus that have PCs and Macs. I want to say every building has atleast 1 or 2 labs each.


Oh yeah and we also have a supercomputer made entirely of Macs. There are over 1100 Apple G5's in there. Here's a picture of that:
http://www.tcf.vt.edu/images/sysx.jpg
If you want to know information about that go here. (http://www.tcf.vt.edu/systemX.html)

[Bobboes]

my school is horrible

we have 2 computer labs, and some computers in the library

in the first computer lab: Dell computers from 1999 that i'm suprised even turn on anymore (oh yeah, they run windows 98 too!)

in the second computer lab: Dell computers from 2003 that run windows XP, but are still extremely slow

in the library, all the computers run windows 95 or 98, half of them are broken and are filled with viruses

good thing im going to a new school next year!

[pohatu771]

At our school... let's see.

We have an elementary computer lab (in the elementary school, of course), where I haven't been in several years, but last I checked, they had about two dozen Pentium II systems. Understandable for an elementary school.

The middle school computer lab has about the same number of systems, mostly Pentium III, some are Dell Optiplex, but most are HP or Compaq.

In the high school, there are several labs:

Lab A is all Pentium III Dell Optiplex. They're actually decent systems (the lab is used mostly for classes, so no one can just come in and screw around. The only problem is, they all seem to have network problems, so a lot of the time you can't do any work because your work is on the H drive, which you must be on the network to use.

Lab B was some two-year-old Pentium 4 HP/Compaqs. But this year our great IT staff (consisting of a high-school graduate, a volunteer firefighter, and one of my classmate's mothers) decided it was a good idea to move the good computers from this lab (which were accessible almost all the time for us to use) to the lab where we're limited to 10 minutes. Now they're all Pentium III or Pentium 4, a mix of HP, Compaq, and Dell.

In the Library, we have the above mentioned Pentium 4 HP/Compaq. With our new (evil) librarian, not only is it near impossible to go to the library (which isn't a big deal, since there aren't really many books in it), but we aren't allowed to go just for computers. So we are limited, as I said before, when using the good computers.

In Lab C, we have several fairly new Pentium 4 HP/Compaqs. I'm not sure when we got them... I didn't even know we had a Lab C until halfway through this past year. They don't have floppy drives, which, as of June, was the only type of removable media we could access on our own. That's right. No CD-ROM, no USB media... Floppy or nothing. Considering how many people I know that have either new PCs (without floppy drives) or Macs (obviously, without floppy drives), it's hard to get things from home to school (especially since they've even blocked file hosting sites and web mail online.) Those aren't bad, because they're rarely used.

Then we have the Tech room, where they have Pentium 4 Compaqs, which are used exclusively for CAD. (The same computers are in every classroom for the teacher). They're about 4 years old.

Then we have the band room, where I like to stay, where at any given time, we have an arrangement of computers. There's the PC, which is used for grades or by students for school work, and then there's the PowerMac G4. This thing is old, but it still works as well as any of the other computers in the building. It's a 400MHz G4, running OS 9. Sometimes we have a PowerMac G3 running (mostly for looking at some of the older cadences and such), or a Performa... The Performa's floppy drive doesn't' work, nor does its parallel port, so if we want something off of it, we have one person at the Performa and one at the G4, and at the Performa we read the music to the person at the G4. Needless to say, the serious musicians (myself included) have all developed their own form of shorthand.

That Performa has had some good days, though. One of the things I had to copy was written in 1999 by Johnny Cummings... maybe you've heard of him.

[EDIT] Sorry... I realised after posting that Johnny Ramone's (of the Ramones) real name is John Cummings... it's not the same guy. Actually, John's (the guy I know) father works in our school. I'm talking about Copesetic Johnny Cummings. Not the band.