I volunteer at a state school, which has mostly Mac for the students, but the current state policy is for new computers to be Windows PC's. There are several problems at the school. Some Macs still in daily use are more than 5 years old, pre iMac, which is not good from a PR point of view "Macs are old and slow". The tech guy they employ does not know much about how they work. And they run only classic OS from System 7 to Mac OS 9.1, which is not good from a tech point of view remembering how each OS connect to the network. Any PC they have for the students run Win 98 making it easier to administer.
They will be replacing the older beige with PC's which will reduce the number of Mac's for the students.
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I volunteer at a state school, which has mostly Mac for the students, but the current state policy is for new computers to be Windows PC's. There are several problems at the school. Some Macs still in daily use are more than 5 years old, pre iMac, which is not good from a PR point of view "Macs are old and slow". The tech guy they employ does not know much about how they work. And they run only classic OS from System 7 to Mac OS 9.1, which is not good from a tech point of view remembering how each OS connect to the network. Any PC they have for the students run Win 98 making it easier to administer. They will be replacing the older beige with PC's which will reduce the number of Mac's for the students.
In Australia we still use paper and pencil for every election I've voted in. It might be about time to switch to electronic voting!