Mac Vs. PC Fight Gets Nasty At School
from the get-over-it dept
A school board in North Carolina is facing the wrath of a bunch of Mac fanatics for chosing to replace their Macs with new Dell machines. This is crazy. I understand that people like Macs, and that's fine. But, to flip out because your local school district is bringing in PCs is ridiculous. I know many Mac fans accuse me of being biased against them, but this just shows the ridiculous level they go to. The school board chose to go with Dell for a reason (price and standardization) and that makes sense. Mac fans always have to turn this into some sort of holy war. Hell, I wouldn't care if the board chose to go with all Macs. I just think that organizing a group and protesting what computers the school buys is a waste of time and makes the Mac fans look just a little overzealous.
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Standardisation?????
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Good for them
Phillip.
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Re: Good for them
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Standardization Should Be for Big Corporations, No
Isn't the point of an education to give one exposure to as much information and experience as possible? Heck, if it were up to me, I'd put Mac, PCs and even UNIX boxes in a school, and expose students to all of them.
Although the kids will probably end up in a job where they'll have to use a Windows machine, some may end up doing graphic design on a Mac, or setting up a MySQL database on a Linux box. In which case this school will have failed the students. But they can proudly state that their school standardized on Dell. I'm sure that will get them the job.
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Re: Standardization Should Be for Big Corporations
msykes
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