Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Baraboo Schools Looking to Macs for the Future


As we are upgrading and purchasing computers in our district we are looking more toward using Macintosh computers to fit this need. With the advent of the intel processor in the mac, now each Macintosh computer you purchase has the capabilities to have both the windows operating system and the Macintosh operating system on it. So you will get the benefits of both resources on one machine. Hence, the Ultimate Learning Tool.
  • Benefit- All windows resources we currently have along with all the Macintosh Resources (I Movie, I DVD, I Photo, Garage Band etc.)

  • Benefit- The workstation is wireless and a one piece unit. Easy for our Technology Department to setup and connect to network.

  • Benefit- Training for the Macintosh Platform. We have several people in the district who use Macintosh computes and would be will in to train staff
  • Issue- The mouse and keyboard are different.

These workstations will ultimately be a Macintosh computer running Windows XP, so there will be no learning curve here.

We will be piloting 5 i-Macs in the district in 3 elementary schools, 1 ms and 1hs teachers classrooms.

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