Do your local schools use Macs or PCs?

[pstokely]

Some use both. Some might use PCs because they're cheaper. Cost of software might be another issue. Some software makers give software away to schools hoping kids will use them at home, and they are statistically more likely to have a PC at home. Maybe that has something to do with the school's decision. Some have windows running on Macs

[PCIntern]

1. Since it's easier to place spycams on Mac's,

Lower Merion, PA used them.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Beg to differ.

Not easier.

Much easier to load spyware, like a keystroke logger, on a PC.

If you mean that because Macs came out first with built-in iSight cameras, then yes, I suppose that made it easier.

[PCIntern]

4. It was a tongue-in-cheek remark...

but since you concede that I was technically correct, then I'll rest on my laurels...

[NYC_SKP]

2. I work with several districts and where there are PCs, they're more likely to sit idle.

Correlation is not causation, my theory is not conclusive, but reflecting on my teaching years, PCs required a lot more tech support and were more likely to fail me.

Running Windows on Macs is an option but it's costly and quite a few apps are cross platform, like MS Office.

In the end you get what you pay for and while there are a lot of rock-solid PCs (Toshiba Tecras and IBM ThinkPads) they cost about as much as Macs (and aren't even sold in retail stores).

I'm cross platform but the warranty and service experiences I have with apple are stellar, with PCs abysmal.

[MissB]

5. Both, and the PCs use Linux+Open Office.

Macs in the classrooms, PCs in the computer lab. Our schools employ one tech person full-time at each site.

[Javaman]

6. Passing around the popcorn now.

this will soon devolve into a PC vs Mac thread.

:popcorn:

[blondeatlast]

8. Co'Cola? nt

[FLPanhandle]

7. Mac's infiltrated our house because of the school system here.

We bought our first one when our daughter was in elementary school. That's all the school used, so we figured she might as well not have to learn two systems.

Then my wife bought a Mac powerbook, then the ipods came, then the iphones, then more Mac laptops, then the ipad.

We love them all, however, it was the school system that caused us to get our first.

[slackmaster]

9. I used to work for an educational software company. Apple donated a lot of computers to schools...

...before 1998. The company I worked for was marketing its software to schools that were getting federal grant money for technology.

Apple suddenly stopped giving computers to those schools. We were forced to abandon our Mac-based software, and had to re-tool everything for the PC world.

Interesting times, those were.

[pstokely]

12. Companies donate computers and software to schools hoping parents will by them

They treat it like a loss leader rather than a donation

[slackmaster]

13. Apple's marketing model has always relied on indoctrinating people into their cult

They decided that giving Macs to schools with a lot of poor kids wasn't worth it.

[pstokely]

14. That didn't seem to work in the mid 90s

Didn't start working until the IPod

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[City of Mills]

11. 95% PC, 5% MAC

I enjoy working with both platforms. My office PC is a MAC with a 27" display, currently running Windows 7 :)