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Jaguar Free for K-12 Teachers
Hugh writes "It seems Apple is giving away for free its newest revision of Mac OS X, version 10.2 (Jaguar), to every K-12 teacher in the U.S."
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Apple doesn't have forty billion in the bank. And MS isn't trying to sell hardware in addition to software.
~Idarubicin
*Mac OS X v10.2 system requirements:
A minimum of 128MB of memory and one of the following Apple products: Power Mac G3 or G4, iMac, eMac, iBook, and PowerBook G3 or G4. (The original PowerBook G3 and processor upgrade cards are not supported.)
Note that a previous version of Mac OS X is not listed, so it must be the full package. Woohoo!
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I did this for my mom about 10 minutes after Apple made the announcement. I felt authorized, given that I'm her sysadmin.
h ers/i ndex2.html
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Go to:
http://www.apple.com/education/macosxforteac
fill in the zip code of the school of your favorite teacher, and then enter their name and email. OSX will be sent to them. Takes 90 seconds.
P.S. This was announced days ago. What took it so long to make
__ Someday, but not this morning, I'll finally learn to use the preview button.
I do not think you got WinXP and extras for free. Your school likely paid a very significant licensing fee for the right to distrubute the software to all faculty, staff, and students. This fee was in turn paid by you through fees, and, if a public institution, through public taxes. I would say you got an incredible deal, but it was far from free.
Or, as has been mentioned here before, the school was forced to license the software for everyone to avoid the dreaded BSA audit.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
The eMacs offer Firewire, USB, ethernet, a 17" flat screen monitor, nice speakers, a compact form factor, and they are very durable. Sure if you buy some no-name, do-it-yourself pc you can get a computer cheaper, but these prices are pretty good for a pre-built, quality machine. On top of all of this you get MacOS X, tons of great free software such as iTunes and iMovie, and the ability to run almost any software written for Linux or other Unix-like operating systems. Not a bad deal at all.
Sapere aude!
OS X runs fine on G3-based machines, even some
of the older ones. Sometimes you have to add
memory though.
Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
G3's and OS X is a pretty bad mix... It's like windows 98 of a pentium 100 mhz machine...
Hardly.
I've been running Mac OS X since beta on my six year old Beige G3/300 which has 256MB RAM and was running off the original ixMicro 3D video card. Once I hit 10.1.5 things ran quite smoothly, although things will slow down if I'm playing MP3s over NFS. (My 10/100 NIC and SCSI hard disk are both sitting on the PCI bus, along with the video card.) I was able to run dual monitors one off the Rage II and the other off the ixMicro just fine.
I recently upgraded to a RADEON 7000 PCI so I get better dual monitor support and can play some 3D games at low resolution.
This is my primary workstation and I am often running ~10 applications including Photoshop, OmniWeb, iChat, Mail, iCal, iTunes, BBEdit, XFree86, Terminal, etc. Things work wonderfully.
Don't be an idiot. You can use your Crucial RAM
and generic LCD screen with a Mac. I just bought
256 MB of RAM for an old iMac for the princely
sum of $42 -- from Crucial.
Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
That's twice as good in most categories compared to the Imac (right down the number of mouse buttons).
[Insert standard "Mhz Myth" argument here]
[Insert standard "One Button Like God Intended" rant here]
Also, you forgot to factor in the labor involved in building and troubleshooting the computer. Most teachers would have to hire somebody to do this. Since this is a one-off build (I know if you're making dozens of the same computer you can do it faster, since you only need to troubleshoot once), assume four hours at $25/hour to build and troubleshoot. Since most teachers add Windows XP Home for $186.99, and Office XP Standard for $416.99, and you're looking at a total of $1,508.96 for your system.
Anyway, you're missing my point. My point is not that low end Macs are a better deal than low end PCs (they probably aren't). My point is that there are low end Macs which are affordable on a teacher's salary.
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OS X "Jaguwire" requires a 3d video card with T&L engine (ie, Nvidia geforce1 or ATI radeon +)
Then how come I'm writing this on 10.2 with an ATI 128?
Are you sure it's not a good deal? Have you looked it up?
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"The membership will run from July through June each year and will cost $799 (USD) per department per year to join. The program was designed to run concurrently with the standard academic year."
List of software:
* Visual Studio Professional
* Microsoft Project Professional
* Windows XP, Windows 2000, and other Microsoft operating systems
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* Microsoft Visio Professional
* MSDN Library (updated quarterly), documentation, technical articles, and code samples * Software development kits (SDKs), betas, new releases, and updates
* Development tools for Windows CE
* Professional technical support for the program administrator that includes unlimited setup and install support and 4 regular support incidents
* Technical support newsgroups for faculty members
* Regular CD-based software shipments with updated software
MSDNAA FAQ
*Insert joke about how you have to factor in the cost of your soul[d] here*