Hi WAMUGers The WA Dept of Education and Training run a Notebooks For Teachers program whereby for a small cost teachers can sign up for a 3 year laptop lease. When the program began there was no mac option. After Union involvement, a Statewide Grievance against the employer and a monumental battle, finally iBooks were included. The first iBook people's 3 yr lease expired last November.
Guess what - DET are yet to finalise a replacement Apple lease contract despite allegedly working on it since April last year. So these poor old iBook users are hanging on to 4 year old iBooks whilst their ACER using colleagues have brand new ACERs. There are hints of Non Disclosure Agreements and people are unable to explain why a new Lease has not been finalised. The cynic in some people sees this as another conspiracy, just like 4 years ago. I was wondering - When are the Intel iBooks due out and do you think this is the possible holdup??? Probably a real longshot here as a new model would have to be "evaluated" by DET and so at this stage would be months and months away from being ready to put on the NFT Contract. Rod -- Rod BLITVICH Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003 Amy and Sam's Dad [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0409 681 256 http://blittosblog.blogspot.com/ http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html ------------------------------------------------------- They can't fire me... Slaves have to be sold!
