Dan, I think I found some pizzaz-
I've got some anecdotal evedence that Apple is making a decent move to retake a good part of the education market.
This summer, I'm taking a course for teachers about how they can develop portfolios of their work in electronic format, and post them on the internet.
There are multiple reasons teachers want to do this; not the least of them are national trends across state standards that require such demonstrations as part of the teacher certification and recertification process.
We are talking about web pages with text, photos, audio tapes, video clips, and multimedia hoo-ha up the kazoo. The course is being taught in a UW-Madison lab stuffed full of G3s. It is simply taken for granted that you can digitize audio and video and make quicktime clips without major fuss.
I asked "What about schools that are based on Windows?"
The answer was "Well, I guess it can't be that hard- they should be able to do that, too- right?" Well--- Not out of the box! Not without extra boards and software! A lil' black iMac can do this stuff with ease.
There is also a national trend for student constructed portfolios. And kids are smart- they see video, they want to make and show video. And nothing else will do!
Now, you can get a lil' black iMac, or you can order a Dell and some hardware (?) and somebody (?) can hook it up and somebody (?) can train you on the quirks of that setup and then the original (?) can troubleshoot...
ANECDOTE:
It's summer time, and I'm seeing a lot of Apple STYROFOAM PACKING MATERIALS out in the halls of the University as folks install their new rigs for Fall. Education market looks STRONG around here! I expect it's a trend.
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