Maine has a program in the schools called Maine Learning Technology Initiative that provides laptops to middle school and now high school students. The program began with iBooks and progressed to MacBooks. The computers have a lifespan in the schools, and apparently with the stimulus package, are getting replaced sooner than expected in some school systems. The upshot is that there are many of these white MacBooks are available if you know where to look.
I have been struggling with how to get Arthur and Rori into Intel Macs, and the opportunity presented itself with a couple of these machines. Arthur can now use CS4 Master Collection and write Flex 4 code. We also want to write iPhone apps, and the old G4 Powerbook wasn't up to the task.
Thanks, MLTI.
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