University to Give iPad, MacBook to Every Student

[ravewulf]

I'd either return it or sell it and get new parts for my PC (assuming they allow that)

 

[long2know]

Three things.

1. I'm glad I already have a degree.

2. I'm glad I don't live in Pennsylvania.

3. My kids will not go to this school.

 

[randomizer]

They should be "giving away" Linux-based laptops and dropping the iPad altogether.

 

[matt87_50]

the obvious question:

Why do they need both?

 

[xophaser]

it is part of the tuition so the student already paid for it. Seton Hall most got a deal.

 

[maydaynomore]

Lol. Anyone thinking that they will get it for "free" must be an idiot, and shouldn't be allowed to go to college. They will include the price of the laptop and the maxipad into their tuition. When I was in college we had to pay a "technology fee" every semester ($350). We could get a "free" copy of MS office each semester, which I did. Now I have 8 copies of MS Office, but am not able to use a single one, because the user agreement states that you can only use the software as long as you are a student. Thankfully my employeer offers the complete MS Office package for $10 (now I have 9 copies)

 

[jitpublisher]

[citation][nom]zoemayne[/nom]They wont be giving away anything it'll be in their tuition.[/citation]
Exactly, that is the long and short of it. But, I can tell you what the topic of a future article about this university will be "Apple defends accusations that it deposited $$$$ into University Deans Bank Account"

 

[killerb255]

[citation][nom]ikefu[/nom]So what if you're an engineering student or CS major and have windows specific programs that you need but are still being forced to pay tuition fees for a Mac and iPad you won't use.[/citation]

[citation][nom]Abrahm[/nom]At graduation, they should give you a Windows PC so you will have a computer you can actually use in the real world.[/citation]

Use Boot Camp. Install Windows on Boot Camp partition. Problem solved (except for, perhaps, the cost of Windows, but students usually get discounts for that sort of thing).

 

[Guest]

I go to Wentworth where ownership of an issued computer by the school is mandatory, but they surely dont just give it to me...I pay dearly for it as it is integrated into my tuition. They also charge for software licenses that i never even use. This program is a waste of peoples money.

 

[countmackula]

Obviously, it's Apple flogging kit to the University so that it's overpriced low end laptop and overpriced color Kindle/giant iPod get some "educational" press time. Let me know when a large college or all colleges do this, and maybe I'll be impressed. In the meantime, that's only a few hundred to a few thousand more macbooks and ipads "sold"... a dumb publicity stunt by Apple to make their products seem more educational than PC's ... a market they used to dominate when I was a kid... but school systems have wisened up over the years and thought... "Ok, unless Apple gives them away to us, we'll save a boatload of money buying PC's instead"... so they do, because as someone mentioned earlier, colleges and Universities operate like businesses... because they pretty much are... they're in the business of collecting cash... tutition, government handouts, alumni donations, sports ticket sales and merchandise... There's no way Apple's not footing the bill and at LEAST giving these things to the school at their cost or even losing money on this thing (How else can kids justify the price tag to their parents for that big screen iPod to show off with unless they can tell their computer illiterate parents they need an iPad for school and that's the bottom line, cuz Steve Jobs said so...)