[Year 12 IT Apps] [OT] 'Ruddy' Computers

[Anton Yoxon]

I am looking at getting netbooks instead of laptops as I can get two for
the price of a laptop.
:)
Anton


Robyn Dunn wrote:
> We will fill every available network point (eg our pods are empty) and the rest will be laptops.
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> Ms Robyn Dunn
> Director of elearning
> Camberwell High School
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>>>> anton yoxon <anton.yoxon at hillcrest.vic.edu.au> 22/07/2008 1:34 pm >>>
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> Mark, we have the choice of laptops as well.
> :)
> Anton
>
> Mark Kelly wrote:
>   
>> Hi all.  This is OT, but I just wanted to air this.  If the thread 
>> develops, we can move it to the OffTopic list.
>>
>> I wanted to get people's ideas about the money we are being given to 
>> get us to a 1:2 computer/student ratio.
>>
>> Yesterday I found we were entitled to apply for funding for 257 
>> computers, which is wonderful except for the fact that we have nowhere 
>> to put them.
>>
>> I could perhaps use about 45 of them, but 257?  Not unless we also get 
>> funding for new buildings, cabling, tech support, software licences etc.
>>
>> If we applied for the maximum amount of money we are entitled to, the 
>> only only option would be for use to stack the computers five-deep in 
>> shipping containers on the oval.
>>
>> At $1000 per PC (assuming about $650 for the hardware the the rest for 
>> associated expenses) I can't see it working.  And we can't just use 
>> the money to replace existing computers - we have to add to the 
>> existing fleet.
>>
>> It's starting to look like a white elephant: the gift you'd give to 
>> someone you really didn't like  :-)
>>
>> Is anyone else in the same boat?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Mark
>>
>>     
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