US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands
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US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands
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Re: US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands
#2Why? Aren’t people saying that Chromebooks are easier to deploy and manage in schools?
Re: US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands
#3Just seem it was a question of time.
Re: US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands
#4Why? Aren’t people saying that Chromebooks are easier to deploy and manage in schools?
Google can't decide what the hell they wanted a Chromebook to do and IT departments everywhere are fed up with it.
Plus I don't think schools are ready to have to deal with managing glorified Android laptops now that Google signaled their wholesale abandonment of the Chromebook platform.
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#5Why? Aren’t people saying that Chromebooks are easier to deploy and manage in schools?
The article doesn’t say why, but at launch the MacBook Neo was the most inexpensive Mac Apple ever made, and it’s a full proper Mac. Despite being inexpensive, it also isn’t junk.
Chromebooks can be had for cheaper, but if a school district was on the fence before about moving to Macs, then Apple made the decision much easier for them.
Re: US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands
#6Why? Aren’t people saying that Chromebooks are easier to deploy and manage in schools?
The article doesn’t say why, but at launch the MacBook Neo was the most inexpensive Mac Apple ever made, and it’s a full proper Mac. Despite being inexpensive, it also isn’t junk. Chromebooks can be had for cheaper, but if a school district was on the fence before about moving to Macs, then Apple made the decision much easier for them.
It is a good idea to give children well designed and nice things, if this can be afforded. An item that is well designed and nice looking tends to receive better care. To a degree this is what you'd want to teach - to really care.
There isn't a guarantee, if you'd give a child a nice looking thing, that a child would care. But given a piece of junk, they'd surely would not, that is guaranteed.
Re: US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands
#7Why? Aren’t people saying that Chromebooks are easier to deploy and manage in schools?
At a similar time as the MacBook Neo launch, Apple unified their Device Management programmes as one 'Apple Business'. So perhaps things have improved on that front.
Re: US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands
#8Why? Aren’t people saying that Chromebooks are easier to deploy and manage in schools?
Google can't decide what the hell they wanted a Chromebook to do and IT departments everywhere are fed up with it. Plus I don't think schools are ready to have to deal with managing glorified Android laptops now that Google signaled their wholesale abandonment of the Chromebook platform.
> Google signaled their wholesale abandonment of the Chromebook platform
When?
Re: US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google can't decide what the hell they wanted a Chromebook to do and IT departments everywhere are fed up with it. Plus I don't think schools are ready to have to deal with managing glorified Android laptops now that Google signaled their wholesale abandonment of the Chromebook platform.
> Google signaled their wholesale abandonment of the Chromebook platform When?
They announced a Chromebook replacement called the Googlebook in May. It's supposed to be "AI native", whatever that means.
Re: US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article doesn’t say why, but at launch the MacBook Neo was the most inexpensive Mac Apple ever made, and it’s a full proper Mac. Despite being inexpensive, it also isn’t junk. Chromebooks can be had for cheaper, but if a school district was on the fence before about moving to Macs, then Apple made the decision much easier for them.
It is a good idea to give children well designed and nice things, if this can be afforded. An item that is well designed and nice looking tends to receive better care. To a degree this is what you'd want to teach - to really care. There isn't a guarantee, if you'd give a child a nice looking thing, that a child would care. But given a piece of junk, they'd surely would not, that is guaranteed.
> Apple's latest earnings call revealed a wave of K-12 districts abandoning Chromebooks and Windows machines in favor of the company's new MacBook Neo
It's not just Chromebooks but Windows machines. Schools really should be providing OS-agnostic computer education, and for that they really should support any machine, especially Windows machines which more easily support changing their OS.
This just changes from having them teach "click this Windows-specific icon to do this" to "click this Mac-specific icon to do this".
Schools are still being used as a tool of OS companies to lock-in users for life.