[geeks] tis the season for hardware to fail...

[Bob]

  On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:13:51PM -0400, Lionel Peterson wrote:
  > I work in a public school district and we recently did a forklift
  > upgrade to a couple Mac labs in an elementary school, and we pulled
  > sunflower iMacs for Mac minis, but we opted to save *hundreds* per
  > workstation and used Dell flat panels w/ Apple keyboards & mice.
  >
  > One of the Computer Teachers actually complained about the Dells
  that
  > replaced her beloved Macs... She didn't even look beyond the
  monitor,
  > she saw the Dell logo and *freaked*...
  >
  > We got a good laugh at that, she still doesn't understand why we
  > bought Dell displays...

  In a similar vein, I was testing an old PowerMac at school and had it
  plugged
  into a PC monitor.  Some of the students didn't know you could do
  that.  So much
  for the principal's comment that students are more computer savvy
  than the
  teachers. (grin)

  Bob