I suspect that it comes down to the desktop. My 14 year old uses MS-Word at school (on both Mac and PC!). Essays and articles are emailed home to do more work on because they don't seem to be able to make floppies and usb drives work. To offer a different word processor at home seems like it is just making more barriers to getting the History or English assignment done well.
Other applications used are Blackboard and Powerschool, both of which seem to be ok on both mac and pc. Then there are all the other games and websites. I know that in a perfect world, the school should be running an OpenOffice desktop and browser and that all of the websites should be html standard compliant... it's the barrier issue that I worry about. It's not about better, but the fact that it's different. I accept that the problems with floppies and usb drives doesn't indicate a perfect world today either. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave McGuire > Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:05 AM > To: SunRay-Users mailing list; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] SunRays for my kids! > > > On Jan 31, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Mark T. Hatcher wrote: > > I'd like to set up two SunRay 100's for my teenage kids to do homework, > > internet etc... I'm looking at using a high end PC and Solaris 10 for > > the > > server. How much horsepower and RAM do I need; and what would be > > optimum? > > Hmm, why not pick up something like a Sun Ultra2 or Ultra60 on eBay? > Should cost you a fraction of the price of a high-end PC, is more > reliable, and is MORE than capable of handling the load. > > -Dave > > -- > Dave McGuire > Cape Coral, FL > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
