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<blockquote data-quote="hokiethang" data-source="post: 10428"><p>Its certainly an interesting conundrum. I am going to speak with experience in administrating labs, even though thats probably not what you will be doing, but I find it a lot harder and more time consuming in the day to day administration of the labs I am responsible for. I work in a collegiate setting, so I could only imagine what high school students could do to a PC. We also have here on campus a lab with over 800 iMac G4s (17 inch LCD) which is run by one admin, he sets the machines up and they are ready for use. </p><p></p><p>Which version of OS X are you using? I recently ran through the upgrade path on a couple of machines I am going to throw into my lab as a test to plan for future purchases, and 10.0 - 10.2 did seem to be fairly slow. After applying the patches to 10.2 though on the Power Mac G4 466, it seemed to speed up and be very usable. </p><p></p><p>Also, I agree, Page maker is on its way out, but Word X is pretty close if not exactly like word on a PC, so the students shouldnt have a problem learning that. Diversity in environment exposure is good. If I had a chance to use a mac in high school, I would have been more open to them before coming to college, and possibly wasted less money in building a PC. </p><p></p><p>The ultimate choice is up to you, but from my experience the stability and the lack of daily administration is definitely where the mac stands out. I find it hard to crash my mac (even tried intentionally a couple of times to no avail), where my PCs in my lab, do it on a daily basis (with people who supposedly know what they are doing).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hokiethang, post: 10428"] Its certainly an interesting conundrum. I am going to speak with experience in administrating labs, even though thats probably not what you will be doing, but I find it a lot harder and more time consuming in the day to day administration of the labs I am responsible for. I work in a collegiate setting, so I could only imagine what high school students could do to a PC. We also have here on campus a lab with over 800 iMac G4s (17 inch LCD) which is run by one admin, he sets the machines up and they are ready for use. Which version of OS X are you using? I recently ran through the upgrade path on a couple of machines I am going to throw into my lab as a test to plan for future purchases, and 10.0 - 10.2 did seem to be fairly slow. After applying the patches to 10.2 though on the Power Mac G4 466, it seemed to speed up and be very usable. Also, I agree, Page maker is on its way out, but Word X is pretty close if not exactly like word on a PC, so the students shouldnt have a problem learning that. Diversity in environment exposure is good. If I had a chance to use a mac in high school, I would have been more open to them before coming to college, and possibly wasted less money in building a PC. The ultimate choice is up to you, but from my experience the stability and the lack of daily administration is definitely where the mac stands out. I find it hard to crash my mac (even tried intentionally a couple of times to no avail), where my PCs in my lab, do it on a daily basis (with people who supposedly know what they are doing). [/QUOTE]
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