Texas High School Gets iBooks

Posted by pudge on Friday November 21, 2003 @12:23AM from the i-am-movin-me-to-texas dept.

bigjnsa500 writes "Starting in December, high school teachers and students in the sleepy south Texas town of Pleasanton will be receiving Apple iBook wireless laptops. The school has installed wireless access points throughout the campus, including classroom buildings, the shop areas, gym, field house and press box at the football stadium. It will be first high school campus in South Texas to go high-tech." Maybe it's just me, but wouldn't that $2.2m over four years be better spent on books and teachers?

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Internet Games! by Josh+Booth · 2003-11-21 00:43 · Score: 1, Troll

Even though the computers are locked down (and Mac OS X is *nix so it won't be pseudo-locked like WinXP), kids will still be able probably to play Java games or the like. Or some industrious kids could boot up YD-Linux and do whatever they want.

At my HS, the most common use for TI-8* calculators is playing games. Who says there will be any difference with these computers?