On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 09:57:39 -0500, John H.
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On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 20:14:53 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 18:52:58 -0500, John H.
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On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 15:29:53 -0800, Califbill billnews wrote:

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On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 17:29:37 -0500, John H.
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On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 17:20:34 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 16:42:11 -0500, John H.
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On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 16:08:15 -0500, wrote:

On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 15:51:40 -0500, John H.
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On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 12:38:12 -0500, wrote:

You can find some very capable machines coming off lease right now.

Nah, gotta be new.

OK, then you can't complain about the price.

True. His dad's going to see what the school recommends once he gets accepted. I'm
figuring somewhere between$2-3K.

Sounds like a lot to me. What are they doing to need that much power?

I don't know. He only wants a 13" screen. Here's what he had on his Christmas list
(which ain't gonna happen).

"13 inch Macbook Pro (256GB storage model) w/retina display 3.1 GHz Dual-Core Intel
i7, turbo boost up to 3.4 GHz, with 16 GB RAM"

He said, when I asked him why he needed so much power, that the software they used in
the biomed arena required it. His dad will check him out though.

Just the fact that it is Apple adds a grand right on top. Can he run a
windows machine?


Lots of the schools seemed to be locked in to Apple. Sort of like school
sports locked to Nike, etc.

Come to think of it, all the ones I've bought for kids going to college have been
Apple (Macs). There must be something going on with the schools.

I think it is because the teacher/professors are not particularly
computer literate (Apple is for people who don't want to know they
have a computer) but it does put the kids at a disadvantage when they
get out in the world and find out most businesses run Windows.

When I was teaching, the county provided all the teachers with Apple desktops and
took away our Windows desktops. Of course none of the software we were using would
work, so the county then gave us Windows emulators. That made things even messier.
After a couple years, they went back to Windows machines. Lot of wasted money. Don't
know what they're using now.

I imagine Apple made them an offer they couldn't refuse.