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Buy College Education, Get Free iBook
kraksmoka writes ""The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about how Saint Leo University in Florida is offering an iBook laptop to every incoming residential student and full-time faculty member. '... the draw of the iBooks has encouraged some of the more than 1,700 students at the university's main campus who would otherwise commute to live in dormitories, which makes the program a success in the university vice president's eyes.'" The students do not keep the computers, unless they finish two years in the honors program.
They demand two years work for a $1,500 computer? Shit, I could make enough to buy one working at McDonald's for just a couple of months!
Education? What? I'm missing something? Huh?
Apple should jump on this as a marketing tool but spin it the other way: Buy an iBook, get a scholarship to the third-rate college of your choice!
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I wish they had this program way back when I was in college. I lived on the computer science floor and our benefit was dial-up access to the mainframe.
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Me talking to my grandkids. Ah, you kids don't know how good you have it. Why, when I was your age TV was two-dimensional in black and white. And we only had four channels and no remote control. And we were glad to have them. Heck, if we wanted to change the channel we had to walk two miles, through ten feet of snow, barefoot.
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They don't exactly have a Masters in Business. How can you expect them to do such complex addition and subtraction with only a puny high school diploma?
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With that kind of price difference, he could even buy a beowulf cluster of those lapt... *smack*
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*wince*
In olden days, you give teacher an apple!
Quite the shock to check /. and see yer dad on the front page :)
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I graduated in the mid 80's, please send me one of your iBooks.
Thank you,
grubby
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The students do not keep the computers, unless they finish two years in the honors program.
My college has these iMacs that we used to use for our homework assignments. One day, I editting my photos and downloading to my iPod on it when all of a sudden a letter from the registrar's office came in. They said I flunked out, and they took my Mac. All of it! The printer, too! I had to move out back to my dad's house quickly. Needless to say, dad's house isn't nearly as good, and I blame that iMac for failing out.
I'm happy to report my dad has a PC and it crashes too much to actually do anything fun on, so now I just rush my papers and they're good enough for the local community college, and my grades have all been really good.
Thanks a lot, Apple.
Ellen
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You must be one of the lucky few here with a girlfriend. I believe the /. term for a person like you is "temporary visitor." :)
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