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Sandy Sandy McMurray is a long-time technology journalist whose work has appeared in Time, the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Sun, Report on Business, Profit, and other sources. Between 1995 - 2002, Sandy wrote a weekly column about technology for the Toronto Sun, and served as Technology Editor for five Sun Media newspapers. He has been publishing on the Web since 1996.
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March 03, 2004

Apple in the Classroom

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Alex Salkever reviews Apple's recent performance in the Education market:

Apple still needs to work on its follow through and support in big one-to-one initiatives. Even so, something good is happening for Apple in education. The proof is in the market share and test-score numbers.
Read the complete article here.

I think Apple has a Catch-22 problem in the Education market. Most schools won't be willing to buy new Macs until they understand the power of Mac OS X. Unfortunately, they can't run OS X on the older Macs that fill most of the classrooms and libraries of the nation.

What would happen if Apple sent an free eMac to the librarian at every public school in America? (Yes, the company's share price would drop, but what else would happen?)

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