I do IT for a technical high school and we just purchased iMacs and a Mac Mini Server for our media department. This is going to be our first Mac lab and I'm sure it won't be our last.
Just today we put in a requisition for a MacBook cart with iPod Touches so students can program applications for iPhones/Touch.
I can't wait to get the delivery so I can have fun setting them up!

I didn't know that was going on. Seems kind of odd to hold it in good ole MP. I don't plan on going back too soon. I was there for a wedding a few weeks ago and my parents are coming here for Christmas so I mostly likely be back there for some time.
Btw. I used my iPhone there and it was incredibly slow. But it was still convenient to have around.

Welcome to TUAW! I grew up in Mt. Pleasant (just a few miles up Hwy 218 for you comment readers) but now live in Baltimore, MD. I look forward to reading your articles in the future.

As much as I would love to see some different browsers in the App Store, particularly ones that don't crash all the time like Safari does (I began writing this on my iPhone but Safari crashed), I can see why Apple is wary of letting other JavaScript interpreters onto the iPhone. JavaScript has been the source of most security vulnerabilities for web browsers in the past few years and letting others onto the iPhone would be a pretty big liability for them.

I recently moved to Baltimore and I would say they chose Baltimore because it is a large enough urban center to test it but not so large that it would overwhelm them. Baltimore city has about 650,000 residents and when you add in the 'burbs it adds up to about 2.5 million.

Battery life is greatly improved but I have issues with Safari crashing on sites that are overly complex with Javascript or input boxes. I didn't really notice any performance increases, the settings screen still takes too long to load (shouldn't it be instantanious?)
I've always had full signal at my house so I don't really know about signal strength but I haven't had any dropped calls in the few that I've made since the update. I had several frustrating ones just walking around Baltimore's Inner Harbor with full signal and after about 8 mins of talk the call just dropped.

Yes, I've had many issues with Safari too. I have had several sites that use lots of JavaScript crash Safari.
I can forgive some of that for the greatly improved battery life though.

This wouldn't be so bad if it were a free service but when you pay $99/yr for a service you expect it to have 99.9% uptime. I don't have enough computers to make MobileMe worthwile and even if I did I think I would be a little reluctant to fork over that much money for Twitter like service.

I can't imagine the chalk dust being too friendly to the CPU heat sink. That's why most classrooms nowadays have whiteboards- so that chalk dust isn't caking the insides of computers.

Marcos,
even though 802.11n, and g are backwards compatible they will fall back to the lowest common denominator. Meaning, if there is even just one computer using G on the network the whole network slows down to G speeds (54 Mbps), or even worse, if a B device connects everything slows down to B speeds (11 Mbps). That's why it is smart to separate them or upgrade all of the hardware to N (which is not always feasable nor economical).
And Ben, I was just about to point out what you said, good job!