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Again, I think everyone needs to watch the keynote there are iPad SPECIFIC
versions of Pages, Keynote and Numbers so there gos your "can't word
process, powerpoint, photostory" they can. Apple always offer $100 off of
each product for education markets - go to store.apple.com and click
education each item is $100 off just by having an .edu e-mail address - bulk
pricing goes lower than that. Many schools buy freshman Macbook's (white
polycarbonate model) and they use them for four years.

UF in Gainesville, Fl requires EVERY student to have an Apple device
(Macbook, MBP, iMac) and there are many other universities that require iPod
Touches or iPhones, or something to access iTunes U.

So while the elementary school market and/or public school market might not
jump on them, private schools and universities will.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 23:18, baileyq <baileyq2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

> My school just bought 100 HP netbooks for all the fifth graders and next
> year, another 200 will be bought for 6th grade (the netbooks will stay with
> the grade not the student). Our IT director said the reason we went HP and
> not Macbook was purely financial--less than $300 each for a netbook. I
> don't know the configuration of the netbooks we're using, and I'm assuming a
> bulk deal on price. Still, I don't know of a school willing to pay $100-200
> more for each iPad that can't word process, do powerpoint, photostory. My
> students' netbooks are loaded with software and there's no extra charge for
> data because they're wifi enabled and use the school's network. I can't see
> it happening in schools. Without a real word processor, it's not worth it
> for schools.
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> All of us teachers got new Toshiba tablet PCs 2 years ago. (Be assured-not
> government $$, we're private). I love its
> functionality--I just finished grad school and the tablet was great for
> downloading research articles, inserting them into OneNote,
> highlighting text and making notes right on the screen with the tablet pen,
> writing papers. I dock my laptop on my desk at school and can connect it to
> my Smartboard--the iPad can't compete at this point--and it's not meant to,
> but for classrooms, netbooks will be the way to go, IMHO.
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> See ya,
> bailey
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