I got a new MacBook for Free!!!!

[Flyinace2000]

Don't get to excited. I started my new job at a school district and the HS is PC and the elementary schools are mac. So they are buying me a macbook, with either 1 or 2 gb or ram (depending on the 3rd party price), 2.0ghz machine with DVD burner (not black). I will be dual booting windows and mac. Very excited. The PO should be approved by friday. Currently i am using my personal PowerBook while at work and it will be nice to leave this machine at home and only have to cary around a macbook.

-Will

 

[CNU182]

Don't get to excited. I started my new job at a school district and the HS is PC and the elementary schools are mac. So they are buying me a macbook, with either 1 or 2 gb or ram (depending on the 3rd party price), 2.0ghz machine with DVD burner (not black). I will be dual booting windows and mac. Very excited. The PO should be approved by friday. Currently i am using my personal PowerBook while at work and it will be nice to leave this machine at home and only have to cary around a macbook.

-Will

Oh..ok.
I was just wondering to myself how your mac situation was going.
Thanks for the update

 

[dextertangocci]

Thanks for that info!

 

[bbrosemer]

All schools should use Mac' kids love them and they are pretty

 

[wako]

I demand to know what school district you work at

 

[michaeldmartin]

Yeah, but some school systems use like, 350mhz imacs with panther at schools & it makes kids hate macs... Better advice: Kids love GOOD macs

 

[Macmaniac]

Yeah, but some school systems use like, 350mhz imacs with panther at schools & it makes kids hate macs... Better advice: Kids love GOOD macs

Sounds like the school district I went too.... No wonder people were demanding PCs

 

[bbrosemer]

Yeah, but some school systems use like, 350mhz imacs with panther at schools & it makes kids hate macs... Better advice: Kids love GOOD macs

Very true we still have the fruit Macs at my elementrary school, and kids are like ohh its so slow, but then again my 8 yr old brother loves my mac and wants me to give it to him when im done. Keep in mind my mac is a 17'' MBP

 

[wako]

Yeah, but some school systems use like, 350mhz imacs with panther at schools & it makes kids hate macs...

sounded like my situation when I was in middle school. The school system turned all its computers to macs. It was the first iMacs that ever came out that had tray loading drives, and looked like the eMacs. They ran OS9, and were TERRIBLE. We were constantly reminded to save our files when we used them because at any moment the system would randomly freeze, or even reboot on its own.

 

[drake]

Mine was "free" too, but that won't stop me from complaining.

 

[Spock]

Yeah, but some school systems use like, 350mhz imacs with panther at schools & it makes kids hate macs... Better advice: Kids love GOOD macs

I hate that like You could never imagine

 

[maxrobertson]

Yeah, but some school systems use like, 350mhz imacs with panther at schools & it makes kids hate macs... Better advice: Kids love GOOD macs

Hey! Those are the exact specs of my computer and I love it!

 

[dbhays]

I have three ibooks. All free, thanks to the great tax payers of California. I too am a teacher. The first one, I got back in 2002. Its now dead and sitting in a drawer. Then next one was a g3 ibook. I use it sometimes, but its on its last legs. The one I use now is a G4 ibook. I love it, but the mobile account stuff on it is a bit to get used to. The permissions were hard to get used to as well, until I changed the owner password using the start up disk. Now I do what ever I want.

Now, don't get to huffy. I donated a power PC 6400 and an indigo imac to my classroom. They get used more than when I had them at home. (I was also able to write them off, $500 for the Power PC and $700 for the imac).

Life is sweet, but atleast I use them. I know lots of other teachers that have never even turned theirs on.

 

[erikistired]

they got rid of all the macs at my mom's school and put in dells. sad day. she misses her macs.

 

[macsrockmysocks]

Very true we still have the fruit Macs at my elementrary school, and kids are like ohh its so slow, but then again my 8 yr old brother loves my mac and wants me to give it to him when im done. Keep in mind my mac is a 17'' MBP

Don't give it to him! Your poor MBP probably won't last long!

 

[xparaparafreakx]

Don't get to excited. I started my new job at a school district and the HS is PC and the elementary schools are mac. So they are buying me a macbook, with either 1 or 2 gb or ram (depending on the 3rd party price), 2.0ghz machine with DVD burner (not black). I will be dual booting windows and mac. Very excited. The PO should be approved by friday. Currently i am using my personal PowerBook while at work and it will be nice to leave this machine at home and only have to cary around a macbook.

-Will

Hahaha. I got my new part time job at a school a few months ago. On my PO, I got a 17" MBP and love it. If i know this, I would of posted a forum topic saying I got my MBP for free.

 

[xparaparafreakx]

sounded like my situation when I was in middle school. The school system turned all its computers to macs. It was the first iMacs that ever came out that had tray loading drives, and looked like the eMacs. They ran OS9, and were TERRIBLE. We were constantly reminded to save our files when we used them because at any moment the system would randomly freeze, or even reboot on its own.

What school was this? This sound like the school im working at. If it is, here whats been going on over the summer. eMacs at 512mb if not 768mb. All OSes will be at 10.4.7 with my new Xserve. No more thrid party security system or IE 5 crashes.

 

[emw]

It's always nice to get a supplied MacBook from work, for sure. Even if it's not technically "yours" it still feels like it. I know, I have a MBP from my office that I just got last month.