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

[Joshua Boyd]

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...

Apple displays are certainly exspenive.  Doesn't Samsung or HP give
school/volume discounts as well though?