Apple Supplying Florida Public Schools
"We're excited to work with Broward County to provide students with the best learning tools available," said Tim Cook, Apple's executive vice president of Worldwide Sales and Operations. "Thousands of schools across the country have improved academic achievement with the help of Apple's education solutions, and the addition of 30,000 iBooks will do much to help provide students with necessary 21st century skills."
Apple will be providing 1.33 and 1.42GHz iBooks which were just released yesterday. The news comes not long after Henrico Schools (Richmond, VA) had decided to switch from iBooks to Dells. Henrico's iBook program received much press when it was initiated in 2001. Of note, Henrico is selling the used iBooks for $50 each (no shipping offered, must show up in person)
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Edit: Here is the link (posted further down) http://henrico.k12.va.us/ibooksale/index.html
I wonder if any of the kids will be whining about no widescreens... :p ;)
I wish my school district would do this. All of our computers are IBM that are around 4 years old. The Think Pads are the worst, those are around 5 or 6 years old! Now all our computers are slowly being phased out with stinking Dells. Sometimes I wish I could live in Florida just for that school district!
When I was in school I wish we would have had Macs as well, that would have been so much better! Instead, I had to deal with IBM PS/2s and good old 486s. I feel happy for those kids, they're very fortunate!
Of note, Henrico is selling the used iBooks for $50 each.
Anybody want to get one for me? I'll pay an extra $50 if someone gets me one.
im serious - if you want to make a couple bucks for picking me up one, email me - aintnohalfstppn@gmail.com
How can i buy one of those old iBooks for $50?
My thoughts exactly. ;)Edit: They must be selling them in bulk. There is almost no way they are selling them for $50 dollars each to random people. Even in bulk, if they put all of them on eBay they would do better than $50. That is just insane. If they really are selling them at $50 to random people though, then the iBooks will all be sold extremely fast.
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/messageview.php?start=0&catid=18&threadid=499705
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