iMac in School

It's the hottest computer Apple's ever come up with. Same "up to twice as fast" G3 processor as the business models. Same Macintosh operating system Microsoft keeps trying to copy. But a great new design and very reasonable price.

• The future is now for new high-tech school, Orange County Register, 8/1.
• Apple gains despite low-cost competition, Cnet, 7/22. "For the month of June, Apple Computer maintained its No. 3 ranking in the retail and mail-order market with strong sales of the iMac...." And, by the way, the iMac was #1 in June.
• Laptop experiment turns freshmen on to learning, Star Tribune, 6/1.
• Macs dominate wired Hong Kong school, CNNfn, 5/26
  "They are very user friendly. They are quite versatile - children take to them quite instinctively, and they require far less maintenance time than PCs do."
• A Macintosh Summer Vacation, Steve Wood, MacInSchool, 5/24
  A short list of Mac educational software to check out this summer.
• What's in a number?, Applelinks, 5/5
  "Why should I pay over a thousand dollars for a 266 speed [iMac] when I can get a PC at 350 for less?"
• iMacs in education, No Beige, 5/3
  "All in all, the iMac is a great educational machine...."
• New G3 All-in-One in the works?, MacOS Rumors, 4/23
  "...the company may be working on a version of the C2 iMac which will fill the space left by the now-defunct G3 All-In-One (AIO)."
• Schools going Mac in a big way, MacCentral, 4/23
  Willow School District (Ann Arbor, MI), East Noble School District (Noble Co., IN), New York City "between 20,000 and 30,000 iMacs"
• Willow Run (MI) board OKs lease of 183 iMacs, Ann Arbor News, 4/16
  That's one per classroom in the school system, and all because of Y2K!
• Which is really cheaper, iMac or $299 Webzter Jr.?, MacTimes, 4/9
• Help a teacher obtain an iMac, Mac Madness
  "[My teacher] is on an LC, and it is slow and crashes all the time and can hardly run anything. My school did buy 22 new Apple desktops this year.... She even had to resort to putting a Macintosh SE in the corner of her room because people ... need to type reports and other things."
• School goes iMac, MacCentral, 3/2
• University of Queensland iMac lab, Choice Connect, 2/23
• Superintendent bashed for buying iMacs, MacCentral, 2/4
• UK teachers vote for iMac, JeMacUse, 1/17
• Apple's answer to the NetPC, Internet Week, 12/14
• $999 iMacs for schools, MacCentral, 12/5
• Review: iMac, Revision B, Don Crabb, Fresh Crabb, 12/7
• A prodigal son returns to the Mac, Douglas Rushkoff, Globe and Mail
• Why I've gone back to Mac, The Guardian Online
• iMac lives up to buzz, Federal Computer Week
• iMac labs to reduce waits, University of Minnesota
• iMac special seport looks at Griffin iPort, MacNN
• iMac as a business tool, The iMac 512
• iMac moving into federal government, Federal Computer Week
• Should schools use Macs or PCs? - results, ZDNet
• Virtual PC and the iMac, MacOS Daily
• Back to school PCs, ABC News
• iMac: hottest computer in the dorm, the iMac
• iMac impressions: a teacher's perspective, a kid's perspective, a dad's perspective, MacCentral
• iMac now Apple's featured education product, MacCentral
• iMac review, Henry Norr, MacInTouch
• Switching to Mac - iMac, even, the iMac.com
• iMac v. the "Top Ten," the iMac channel
• Apple bites back at PC with iMac, Australian Financial Review
• Ojai Digital Arts Center in Ojai, CA, to use iMacs
• The iMac: Perfect for Schools, the iMac channel
• Cost clouds iMac's savior status, Los Angeles Times, "For schools - which need networked computers and can easily live without floppies - it's a sure bet."