[Informatics] OT- Macbooks vs PCs

[Poke, Michael C]

Hi Sylvia,
Here at Manor Lake College we use Apple computers and devices across the college. It’s awesome as far as what students can do present their work in innovative ways.  As far as from an Informatics perspective, the lack of a decent (free) database management system like MS Access has been a real issue.  We survived using Libre Office Base but as an open source platform, it was prone to crashing at times and doing things a bit funny.  Now we’ve managed to get our IT guys to set up remote access to MS Access for Windows via the College server.  It works like a virtual machine but only gives them direct access to Access… but only at school on our iMacs in our computer labs. It was tricky for the IT guys to set up, but now it’s all set up, it works well. We’ll see how it goes in 2016.

Hope this is useful to you.

Cheers,
Michael


Michael Poke
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Senior Years Digital Learning Leader (2016)
Manor Lakes P-12 College
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On 2 Dec 2015, at 11:09 AM, Sylvia Pastore <smp191172 at gmail.com<mailto:smp191172 at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi all
Just wanted to know of any schools that have moved from PCs to Macbooks. How has your experience been and what are issues that you have had. Would love to have feedback of schools that have done this move and the reaction of staff as well!!!!

Thanks in advance for your thoughts

Sylvia
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