[Year 12 IT Apps] Apple OS10 Offer

[Robert Ruzbacky]

We are also running with Macbook Pros this year for staff and some student
notebooks.

We are also dual booting as well - so far no major problems with student
ones. We are deploying the Macbook Pros to staff during this term -
probably a few teething problems and getting used to the mouse touchpad.

The challenge has been finding a way to roll out a hard disk image without
using a Mac server. We are planning to investigate a Mac server in the
future and trying to put the Mac OS/X side on the network and making it
play nice with Windows Server 2008 :-)

Our Macs will also be used in the VisComm / Arts area, but hoping to use
them later in other areas as well depending on costs. Macbook Pro's retail
for approx $2K depending on specs whilst the Macbooks are a lot cheaper
(around $1.2K).

Software on both sides work well - haven't had any issues yet. Also good
thing about dual boot is that you can't trash the other drive (eg: in
Windows, the Mac drive is read only, and vice versa).


Regards,

Robert
St Aloysius College



> Interesting you say they're on dual boot. Do you have any issues with
> software loaded on each platform not running properly? We just upgraded to
> server 08 r2.
> We here have 10 Macs on a trolley and 40 Windows based laptops on 4
> others.
> What type of use do your mac's mainly get..we got them primarily for
> graphics and media studies subjects.
> Costs generally?
> I shall have a squizz at the Apple OS10 offer..
>
> Feel free to reply off list so we can have a yak Graham.
>
> Kent.
>
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> behalf of Gales, Graham W [gales.graham.w at edumail.vic.gov.au]
> Sent: Friday, 19 February 2010 2:29 PM
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> Subject: RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] Apple OS10 Offer
>
> At Bright, we have half a dozen staff with Apple Notebooks, with dual boot
> (the major reason for this is for MarkBook).  No-one has any great
> problems with them.
>
> We also have a COW with 12 Apple Notebooks as well - in high demand.
> There is also a Windows COW as well as Netbooks.
>
>
> Graham Gales
> Bright P-12 College
>
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