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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> The end of my love affair with Apple?
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>> | I, for one, have become reacquainted with Linux and its incredible
>> | flexibility on a wide variety of hardware. Linux allows me to have a “real
>> | computer” inside some very inexpensive hardware, whether netbooks or
>> | extremely cheap desktops. Even if Apple starts dumping their remaining
>> | white MacBooks on educational institutions, we’re still going to be
>> | looking at $800 a pop. Their more interesting products climb quickly.
>> |
>> | [...]
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>> | Apple is losing its luster for me. I’ll always feel warm and fuzzy inside
>> | walking into an Apple Store, but the other night we were talking about how
>> | to meet the computing needs of our family of six. Three out of four kids
>> | are using computers all the time for school now (and are far more likely
>> | to pop onto a computer than watch TV, a trend that I welcome happily). My
>> | youngest rarely “needs” a computer for school, but can easily make use of
>> | one (and is frequently bumped from a computer by his older brothers who
>> | actually need them to type papers, create presentations, conduct research,
>> | etc.).
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>> http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2031
>
> Yeah, supplying Macbook Pros for four kids would put me off Apple
> pretty quick.
>
> I've been looking at second hand PCs lately for cheap computing. You
> can get some pretty nice machines for $100-$150 if you watch the web
> sites. Of couse they won't run Vista, but that's no problem with
> Linux. I'm talking about desktops.
Sub-notebooks come with GNU/Linux preinstalled (pristine condition)... and with
everything very simplified and fully functional, so these are good appliances,
like Apple's, just much cheaper.
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert (MCSE)
http://Schestowitz.com | GNU is Not UNIX | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
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