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Jaguar Free for K-12 Teachers

Posted by pudge on from the quick-marry-a-teacher dept.

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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  1. Re:about time by Idarubicin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apple doesn't have forty billion in the bank. And MS isn't trying to sell hardware in addition to software.

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  2. Give the gift of X by bobdotorg · · Score: 5, Informative

    I did this for my mom about 10 minutes after Apple made the announcement. I felt authorized, given that I'm her sysadmin.

    Go to:
    http://www.apple.com/education/macosxforteach ers/i ndex2.html

    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 /.?

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  3. Re:Are they.. by Josuah · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:Boy, would I like to run OS X at home... by benedict · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  5. Re:Wow by Maniakes · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  6. Re:Are they.. by furballphat · · Score: 5, Informative

    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?