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Buy College Education, Get Free iBook

Posted by pudge on from the a-cheap-way-to-get-a-computer dept.

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.

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  1. woo hoo!!! by motardo · · Score: -1, Troll

    Free doorstop here I come!!!

    1. Re:woo hoo!!! by roseblood · · Score: 0, Troll

      "Free doorstop here I come!!!"

      I think he dosen't understand. These laptops won't have windows pre-installed. No need to put them into doorstop duty so quickly, you could wait till you find a lack of applications for the laptop before it keeps your doors oepn for you.

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  3. Re:Two years? by BWJones · · Score: 1, Troll

    Shit, I could make enough to buy one working at McDonald's for just a couple of months! What? I'm missing something? Huh?

    Yes, you are missing something. In fact, you said it yourself. It's called an education.

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  4. Don't use Apple colleges and universities! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I find it amazing that any university still deals with Apple at all. I worked in the IT department at a major southern technical college. My last year there, we were in negotiations to upgrade our Apple labs. Not only did Apple refuse to give us any credit for our old machines (something they always did in the past), the discount they were offering on G4's was less than what it would have cost us to buy one through the campus bookstore. That, combined with the utter LACK of support in maintaining the machines we had lead us to call off negotiations with them.

    Dell however came through, gave us credit on our old Macs and now has 95% of all machines in the campus computer clusters.

    Don't trust Apple, they screw their educational customers. I'm sure the only reason St. Leo went with them is cause they're an arts and crafts college that doesn't know any better.

  5. Re:Embry Riddle graduate students get Dell laptops by Valiss · · Score: -1, Troll

    Many of our computer labs at school upgraded this year to new Dells [csus.edu]. Man they are nice: Cd burners, large HDs, plenty of RAM, etc. There are just a couple labs left with Apple (in the graphic design dept). Aside from that, Apples don't have any real use.

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  6. FUCK YOU COCKSUCKERS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fucking American.
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    Eat shit.
    I want your balls smashed.

    I hope somebody in your famil dies soon.
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  7. Re:School-required laptop's bad by easter1916 · · Score: 1, Troll

    "Cheep"? That makes me laugh every time I read it. If you read the article, you would have noticed that the school is supplying iBooks, which are not particularly cheap.

  8. How apple could make 10,000,000,000 USD by DAldredge · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just sell whatever they coat their Macs in to Microsoft. What ever it is it insures that once you have a MAC nothing bad is ever said about it.