Saturday, February 12, 2005
Quick and run
- It's interesting how many iBook users in the past week have told me to "just shut up and buy an iBook already," but it turns out that every one of them is using their laptop as their secondary machine, along with a desktop that has a larger-than-1024x768 screen. It's a bit of a different story when you want one and only one machine for all your usage, as I do.
- The funniest thing has been the number of folks who have suggested that I replace my PowerBook with a Mac Mini. Apparently lost on them is the fact that there's a difference between a machine being "portable" and being "usable while portable."
- Speaking of the Mac Mini, it's been for sale for a little more than a month now. Anyone seen anything out of Apple as far as number of pre-orders, or number of early sales? Or a TV commercial? Or anything out of Apple regarding the product at all? I'm just saying, is all. For a product that every geek on the Mac Web swore was going to be the best-selling computer in Mac history, we sure haven't heard anything to that effect -- other than every geek on the Mac Web stepping up to announce that they themselves are going to buy one.
- I can't tell you how much I like iWork. And one of these days, I might even find time to write about it.
- The 63,000 iBook deal in Georgia, if it actually happens, will be further evidence that Apple just might know what it's doing in the education market after all. There are invariably going to be some districts that are going to use every wrong reason in the book to go with PCs, but these are the districts who have no understanding of the value of educational technology in the first place, and are simply looking to spend as little as possible. They're not the types that would ever consider giving every kid a laptop anyway. And while Dell is focusing on trying to put a PC in every classroom is those districts, in other districts Apple is focusing on trying to put a Mac in the hands of every student. One classroom has twenty to thirty students in it. You do the math on which of the two companies can see the big picture.
- Speaking of Macs in education, it looks like MacUsingEducators.com is finally beginning to turn into what I originally envisionsed: a group of Mac-using educators who, whenever they feel they have something to contribute, goes ahead and posts it on the site. I never would have thought it would take having thirteen different educators as part of the team, but if there's one thing that's true of all educators, it's that they're overworked and don't have much time to devote to posting stuff on websites. So if I end up having to add fifty or a hundred educators to the team in order to fully flesh out the vision, then so be it. It's too important of an issue not to try to make a difference.
- It's interesting how many iBook users in the past week have told me to "just shut up and buy an iBook already," but it turns out that every one of them is using their laptop as their secondary machine, along with a desktop that has a larger-than-1024x768 screen. It's a bit of a different story when you want one and only one machine for all your usage, as I do.
- The funniest thing has been the number of folks who have suggested that I replace my PowerBook with a Mac Mini. Apparently lost on them is the fact that there's a difference between a machine being "portable" and being "usable while portable."
- Speaking of the Mac Mini, it's been for sale for a little more than a month now. Anyone seen anything out of Apple as far as number of pre-orders, or number of early sales? Or a TV commercial? Or anything out of Apple regarding the product at all? I'm just saying, is all. For a product that every geek on the Mac Web swore was going to be the best-selling computer in Mac history, we sure haven't heard anything to that effect -- other than every geek on the Mac Web stepping up to announce that they themselves are going to buy one.
- I can't tell you how much I like iWork. And one of these days, I might even find time to write about it.
- The 63,000 iBook deal in Georgia, if it actually happens, will be further evidence that Apple just might know what it's doing in the education market after all. There are invariably going to be some districts that are going to use every wrong reason in the book to go with PCs, but these are the districts who have no understanding of the value of educational technology in the first place, and are simply looking to spend as little as possible. They're not the types that would ever consider giving every kid a laptop anyway. And while Dell is focusing on trying to put a PC in every classroom is those districts, in other districts Apple is focusing on trying to put a Mac in the hands of every student. One classroom has twenty to thirty students in it. You do the math on which of the two companies can see the big picture.
- Speaking of Macs in education, it looks like MacUsingEducators.com is finally beginning to turn into what I originally envisionsed: a group of Mac-using educators who, whenever they feel they have something to contribute, goes ahead and posts it on the site. I never would have thought it would take having thirteen different educators as part of the team, but if there's one thing that's true of all educators, it's that they're overworked and don't have much time to devote to posting stuff on websites. So if I end up having to add fifty or a hundred educators to the team in order to fully flesh out the vision, then so be it. It's too important of an issue not to try to make a difference.
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