iBooks! $50! First come first Serve!

Published on July 27, 2005 By Dr Guy In Personal Computing

This is the part of the experiement of the henrico School Board, and the paid agent of Apple who ripped off the county for no gain but his own pocket.

They switched to Dell, so they are dumping their old iBooks! Out of Warranty, the only thing they guarantee is that they are working when you buy them!

750mhz (local radio guy said 750 mb! What a putz!). OSX (If I had to guess, I would say 10.2.x.

Read the Article and be the first on your block to get one cheap!

Catch: Limit 1 to a customer.

Comments (Page 2)

Shotgun989

on Jul 31, 2005

Fifty is decent for a shiny coaster. I'm kidding, of course. At very least, an iBook is a decent file server at that price. Expensive plaything, perhaps.

Dr Guy

on Aug 01, 2005

Why would anyone want to actually pay for a Mac? Jeeze . . . I'd only take one if it was free . . .

These are running OSX which is a Unix kernel. You can play with Unix at least.

Dr Guy

on Aug 01, 2005

Ignorance is bliss KoolKat. Don't knock it till you try it.

New, these are not bad machines. I dont know how these used ones will be tho. They only guarantee they work when you pick them up, not that they will for long after that.

Dr Guy

on Aug 01, 2005

Fifty is decent for a shiny coaster. I'm kidding, of course. At very least, an iBook is a decent file server at that price. Expensive plaything, perhaps.

The only knock I have against Macs are their price. Since OSX 10.1, they have been very solid computers.

Jafo

on Aug 01, 2005

I paid $5 for an Apple 2e ....with all the extras...external drive....printer...mouse....much better deal....

Dr Guy

on Aug 01, 2005

I paid $5 for an Apple 2e ....with all the extras...external drive....printer...mouse....much better deal....

I hope not recently!

ZubaZ

on Aug 01, 2005

I paid $5 for an Apple 2e

I picked up a Performa 560 for $25 and it's perfect for my 2 and 5 year old. One button, small footprint, easy OS (7.6), not deletign my files anymore . . . what more can you ask?

I have a G4 too (OS X 10.3) . . . almost never use it though. It's a good computer but my PC does everything I could want. And if I want to play with Linux, Ubuntu Live CD!

Dr Guy

on Aug 01, 2005

I picked up a Performa 560 for $25 and it's perfect for my 2 and 5 year old. One button, small footprint, easy OS (7.6), not deletign my files anymore . . . what more can you ask?

I have a superMax 180. For the same reason. It wont run OSX, but then my sons dont want to follow in pa's footsteps.

Island Dog

on Aug 02, 2005

A program that once promised to be one of the largest educational laptop deployments ever now appears to have been scrapped following a court ruling and announcement by the school board. Cobb County, Georgia was to receive more than 63,000 iBooks for both students and teachers across the district.

The decision by Superior Court Judge S. Lark Ingram said that money received through a special tax fund called the Special Purpose Location Option Sales Tax, or SPLOST, were only approved by voters to replace obsolete computers, not fund a program to give laptops to students and teachers.

Link

Dr Guy

on Aug 02, 2005

Reply By: Island Dog

Shame Someone did not sue Henrico county before they wasted our money.

Dr Guy

on Aug 03, 2005

Update:

Sorry folks, the County Board of Supervisors just voted and decided unless you live in Henrico Co, you cant buy an iBook. Unless 1000 Henrico residents dont want one. County Residents go first.

mswaim

on Aug 16, 2005

Don't know if I would want to be there.

Is a 4 year old iBook really worth this effort: Link

From the AP report on CNN.com:
"Witnesses said an elderly man was thrown to the pavement, and someone in a car tried to drive his way through the crowd."

Any first hand accounts from the frontlines?

Dr Guy

on Aug 16, 2005

Don't know if I would want to be there. Is a 4 year old iBook really worth this effort: Link

From the AP report on CNN.com:
"Witnesses said an elderly man was thrown to the pavement, and someone in a car tried to drive his way through the crowd."

Any first hand accounts from the frontlines?

I was not that stupid! But there is plenty of video from the local clowns:

Link

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