preferences from the student's perspective. I strongly share the
belief that such preferences are an adult issue (digital immigrants)
more than the children's view of "this is how you do it on a Mac and
this is how you do it on a PC". They don't really care. I don't
recall who originally used that quoted phrase so forgive me for not
giving due credit.
Nonetheless we are 95% Mac hardware based approaching 100% with 5%
running both MacOS and XP Pro. Our perspective is from a tech support
ratio that allows a larger number of laptops:technician to lower TCO.
The hardware of choice is ever evolving and who knows what the next
ten years will deliver.
Fred Austin
Technology Director
The Oakwood School
Greenville, NC
On Apr 13, 2009, at 10:45 PM, CHRISTOPHER BUTLER wrote:
> When I arrived here 4 years ago, the school was all PC. I introduced
> laptops & iMacs a year later (as an option for faculty laptops and
> in one of
> our many computer labs). We've continued to add Macs to the mix
> (we're
> currently about 10% Mac). They are completely integrated with Active
> Directory so students and faculty can move between Macs and PCs and
> always
> have access to their files on the network file servers.
>
> I haven't made my final decision yet, but we are leaning very strongly
> toward replacing a large chunk of our desktop machines with iMacs and
> configuring them with both OS X Leopard and Windows XP with
> Bootcamp. We
> will also be replacing our current installs of SmartTech's
> SynchronEyes (I
> think it's now SmartSync) with Faronics Insight which is cross-
> platform (and
> less expensive). And, now that the latest version of Symantec's
> Altiris
> Client Management Suite is much more Mac friendly, it'll be even
> easier for
> us to support this configuration (we can easily schedule boots to both
> operating systems overnight to schedule and run security/software
> updates).
>
> Moving forward, I'm going to be very curious to see the usage
> patterns now
> that students will have a choice of operating systems...
>
> Christopher
>
> --
> Christopher Butler
> Academic Technology Director
> St. John's Preparatory School
> http://www.stjohnsprep.org
>
>
> On 4/13/09 9:46 PM, "Renee Ramig" <rramig@sevenhillsschool.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I work at a school that was Mac, chose to go PC (before I was
>> hired). I was
>> wondering if anyone has successfully re-introduced Mac laptops into
>> a PC
>> school. The price point has come down, so that the Macbook with
>> Applecare is
>> the same price as the Lenovo with three year warranty. I am
>> looking at Macs
>> as we have several middle school teachers that use the iApps. I
>> purchased
>> five iMacs and put them into a small room, called it a Media
>> Center, and it is
>> used all the time this year. I purchased a site license for iWork
>> last year
>> for the five iMacs I purchased, so I would I have this for Mac
>> laptops too.
>> They also come with Comic Life, another application we use that I
>> would need
>> to purchase licenses for on a PC.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Renee Ramig
>> Seven Hills School
>>
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