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| Thread ID: 43932 | 2004-04-01 05:23:00 | O/T Mac Computers in Schools | bk T (215) | Press F1 |
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| 226468 | 2004-04-02 06:18:00 | Microsoft seems to think Mac Powerpoint is very good. I can't imagine it being greatly different from the PC version apart from having additional features. mac powerpoint (www.microsoft.com) A one button mouse has never been restrictive, control click or click and hold will open menues the same as right click on a PC 2 or 3 button have beeen available for some time which gives some extra options as they have done on a PC Have a look here at what you can use. www.apple.com I can't believe there is still so much ignorance about Macs still around, all the information is readily available. There is not really any such a thing as PC and Mac skills anymore, they have many common programs and any PC user could use a Mac version of OE, IE or MS Office without any trouble. It is quite common for many people to have used both systems in office situations and is no more difficult than switching from IE to another browser such as Opera or Mozilla. My daughter has Macs at her work which is a major NZ organization and they had to install one PC for a new phone system and she now has to use that but she easily uses either a PC or Mac. and goes from one to the other and does all the normal office routine from the PC, communicating without a problem to the other Macs in the office It is an advantage to have experience with both systems as Macs are more common in business and office use than is realized and schools should give tuition on all operating systems if they want students to have a well rounded education and be ready for the real world |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 226469 | 2004-04-16 11:11:00 | > > Apart from the economics of it all, it's a PC & > Windows world out there and Mac skills are in limited > demand.(Billy T quote) Food for thought but may be hard for some to digest. Australian state traffic authority switches to Macs In what may well be Apple Computer Inc.'s largest coup in the Australian enterprise space, the New South Wales (NSW), Australia state Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) will deploy 1,200 Apple iMacs across 140 registry offices. maccentral.macworld.com Apple Computer Inc. reported on Wednesday a net profit of $46 million for the company's second quarter ended March 27, 2004. In the quarter, Apple shipped 749 thousand Macintosh units and 807 thousand iPods, representing a 5 percent increase in CPU units and a 909 percent increase in iPods over the year-ago quarter. |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 226470 | 2004-04-16 13:03:00 | Macs were 'given' away some years ago in a great marketing drive. But a couple years ago MS jumped on the bandwagon and offered something like $10 million worth of kit (software mostly I think) which is why schools are now slowly joining the real world | Greg S (201) | ||
| 226471 | 2004-04-16 13:17:00 | As avid a PC fan as I am, I could happily switch to a Mac tomorrow - it would do everything I need it to do just as efficiently, if not more so than a PC. Just because it's different doesn't make it wrong. Mac's have in their favour a standard hardware platform, with a pretty rock-solid OS designed and written specifically for that hardware. No issues with bad drivers, low quality cheap 'generic' or otherwise hardware that plagues PC's. Kid's can't bring discs with games or files in from home and bring a network of Mac's to their knees with viruses. There are a lot of potential advantages in using the Mac platform, and hell the exposure to some different platforms has got to be good. Ever stop to consider that the more 'free' software MS pumps into schools, the more kids learn nothing but MS, making it easier for people to just stay with MS as people already know it. If there wasn't a hidden benefit, MS wouldn't be doing it. |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 226472 | 2004-04-17 01:36:00 | > If their teachers know Mac software, they are better > off with what they know. > > I don't believe schools "need" computers anyway. > They should be devoted to education, not > t "training". Kids need to know how to do arithmetic > in their heads or on paper. It's not useful for > them to use computers to produce wrong answers > quickly. > > Art needs newsprint and poster paints. Using a > computer to do it means they will be able to > assemble "clip art ", not make original work. It was > amusing (sort of) to see the degeneration in > commercial art when Letraset came out. > Was that said tongue-in-cheek? |
StevieRay (4739) | ||
| 226473 | 2004-04-17 01:57:00 | We use a G5 for our recording studio at school..... real fancy stuff. The rest are PCs (silly pathetic PCs), except for the iMac I saw in the IT Technicians room. Then again, our IT Technician hates apple (because he doesnt know how to use em).a | Growly (6) | ||
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