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Henrico County to continue using Macs
Remember The Battle of Henrico, where thousands of Mac-craved cheapskates gathered to purchase student-abused iBooks for $50, resulting in a Lord of the Rings-like skirmish that made the typically-unimpassioned PC world pause and wonder why the hell anybody would be so enthusiastic over a fricken' beaten-up old laptop? The County was liquidating machines it had provided its students the previous years as part of a deal with Apple to test the increasingly-popular everyone-gets-a-computer programs popping up all over the country.Well, good news from that front: Apple beat out Dell in securing a new contract to continue providing laptops to Henrico County's middle school students: "On a 3-1 vote, the School Board last night approved a four-year contract worth nearly $16 million. ...The new contract will begin after the current four-year pact with Apple ends June 30. ...The new contract is for 12,675 iBook laptops at a cost of $1,246 each."What's interesting is that Dell even underbid Apple by a whole $125 ($1,246 vs. $1,111 for the Dells), and yet the County still chose to stick with the Mac.Who knows: With ambition in their hearts and iBooks in their bags, maybe the country's youth do still have a chance in the dog-eat-dog World of Tomorrow.[via MacDailyNews]
Henrico iBook chaos makes good T-shirt fodder
This is sick and twisted and offensive and sad and tragic and yet I can't stop laughing. Is that wrong?HENRICO COUNTY $50 iBook t-shirtOnly $7 with free shipping... cheaper than making your own! It would be nice if this enterprising auctioneer were to donate the proceeds to charity, or to the Henrico County public school system, instead of spending it on, say, porn and beer. I'm not holding my breath, however.Congrats to Phi for getting his second TUAW tip of the day posted!Related:$50 iBooks cause stampede!
$50 iBooks cause stampede!
No, you aren't reading The Onion. Yes, there really was a stampede. No one was seriously injured, but this morning's $50 iBook sale was an insane mob scene by all accounts. Lines of parked cars started to form around 1:30am and by 7:00am, when the sale was to begin, the line was said to be more than a 1/2 mile long, while thousands of people rushed the gate for an opportunity to spend $50 on a 4-year old iBook that stood a good chance of barely being worth even that little. There are reports of baby strollers being tipped over and mangled and one old man in a walker was reportedly trampled to the ground! More after the jump...
