It's not so much that PCs are cheaper than Macs; it's that the price of PCs drops so much faster. Grant money, applied for months in advance, ends up buying hardware for hundreds of dollars less than originally written for... of course, the money isn't refunded to the teacher or school but, instead, is retained by central administration or, as is my case, the city mayor. I've had grants delayed 6 and 9 months just to take advantage of the hundreds of dollars per unit that can turn into a nice slush fund.
Sadly, the tech folks, themselves trained on PCs, attack anyone who uses the word "iBook" in a sentance as if they are a frothing fanatic and, hence, a "Michael Moorean" enemy of the state - funny part: I can't tell you how many times my PowerBook has done things on our network that the PCs can't.
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It's not so much that PCs are cheaper than Macs; it's that the price of PCs drops so much faster. Grant money, applied for months in advance, ends up buying hardware for hundreds of dollars less than originally written for... of course, the money isn't refunded to the teacher or school but, instead, is retained by central administration or, as is my case, the city mayor. I've had grants delayed 6 and 9 months just to take advantage of the hundreds of dollars per unit that can turn into a nice slush fund.
Sadly, the tech folks, themselves trained on PCs, attack anyone who uses the word "iBook" in a sentance as if they are a frothing fanatic and, hence, a "Michael Moorean" enemy of the state - funny part: I can't tell you how many times my PowerBook has done things on our network that the PCs can't.