Free Laptop (2 Viewers)

[youngminii]

FREE LAPTOP.
(Just in case you don't venture into the News section of the site)

Every NSW public school student in years 9 to 12 will get a laptop they can keep when they leave school... Ms Firth said NSW would now begin rolling out mini-laptops in the state's schools by the middle of next year... Next year NSW would begin rolling out lightweight, three-quarter sized laptops to the 197,000 students in years 9 to 12... The computers would connect to a wireless system, which will be installed in every school... As part of the program, the students would be allowed to keep the laptops when they finished high school... "It is going to be security coded so every student will have their own ID," she said... The roll out would cost $2,245 per student, Ms Firth said.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH

Edit: Link - http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5180737/nsw-students-laptop-computers/

 

[kaz1]

Not getting one. Although our school did get a few hundred laptops recently.

 

[ellison442]

Gotta say..sounds good. BUT...you'll notice it says at some point "half the schools will receive theirs by end of 2nd term". now if i know government..that means that the other half wont get them until end of third term...when we're basically finished. Will we get them at all? we shall see

 

[kara42]

WHY NOT PRIVATE SCHOOLS?!
That's not fair

 

[0hNivlek]

Nice.

 

[gibbo153]

WHY NOT PRIVATE SCHOOLS?!
That's not fair

private schools have about 92834892 computers per student.

 

[jellybelly59]

private schools have about 92834892 computers per student.

lol

 

[adidasboy]

they'll probably install some net nanny program to stop you guys from entering naughty sites and games

 

[GUSSSSSSSSSSSSS]

fucken waste

i just go to the library
its for free

high speed internet connection there as well

 

[youngminii]

fucken waste

i just go to the library
its for free

high speed internet connection there as well

Yeah but we get to KEEP these laptops
Have fun going to the library after HSC~

 

[electrolysis]

eh, an extra laptop in the house cant do much harm...

 

[Continuum]

FREE LAPTOP.
(Just in case you don't venture into the News section of the site)


YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH

Edit: Link - http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/5180737/nsw-students-laptop-computers/

$2245 for a mini-laptops? What the hell? Not even if you include logistics and all that, should the cost amount to that much.

 

[Aplus]

The roll out would cost $2,245 per student, Ms Firth said.

 

[kaz1]

they'll probably install some net nanny program to stop you guys from entering naughty sites and games

There's ways around it.

 

[hungwell1337]

$2245 can get me a intel quad core 2.0 along with 4GBs of ram and a 9800 512mb as well as a motherboard with a bus speed of approx 1.6ghz+

but we're gonna get some shitty core 2 duo 2.0 with like 2gbs of ram and integrated graphics

why not just give us $2245 to buy a laptop...

 

[kara42]

private schools have about 92834892 computers per student.

Now, now, that's a generalisation.

 

[Wooz]

$2245 for a mini-laptops? What the hell? Not even if you include logistics and all that, should the cost amount to that much.

This is to help cover teh sh*t load of problems they've had with the program, infrastructure, advisors/consultants, experts, on going staff, development of the restriction software, integration with the schools IT system, etc.

 

[aimhigh10]

WHY NOT PRIVATE SCHOOLS?!
That's not fair

I AGREE

 

[aimhigh10]

private schools have about 92834892 computers per student.

stereotyping

 

[squeenie]

$2245 can get me a intel quad core 2.0 along with 4GBs of ram and a 9800 512mb as well as a motherboard with a bus speed of approx 1.6ghz+

but we're gonna get some shitty core 2 duo 2.0 with like 2gbs of ram and integrated graphics

why not just give us $2245 to buy a laptop...

That's a very good point...

A VA student might need to use a graphics program like Photoshop or Maya, where the superior equipment would be much more efficient (Photoshop uses up RAM like the world's about to end - it's a rather heavy program).