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On 21/08/2011 12:24 PM, David Clayton wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:23:43 -0700, farkya hzalle wrote:
>
>> On Aug 21, 8:42 am, Sfinx<siegfr...@inbox.com>  wrote:
>>> Rudd giveaway gripes: students slam 'slow' laptops August 15, 2011
>>>
>>> Less than two years after Kevin Rudd's Labor government started handing
>>> out laptops to schoolchildren around the country many are complaining
>>> they are too slow and act as expensive paperweights most of the time,
>>> writes David Braue.
>>>
>>> In 2007 Rudd spun his education revolution into a broadband revolution,
>>> promising to spend $1 billion to provide a computer with high-speed
>>> internet access for every student in years 9 to 12.
>>>
>>> Like thousands of other year 10 students, Luca Vignando has had his NSW
>>> government-supplied netbook, provided under Labor's Digital Education
>>> Revolution (DER) funding, since he began year 9. But it's not much use:
>>> less than two years down the track, Vignando and his peers are finding
>>> the units just aren't up to snuff any more.
>>>
>>> Microsoft Word and OneNote work OK, but Vignando says bundled multimedia
>>> applications like Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver and video- editing tool
>>> Premier Elements run at a crawl. Students needing to do more than basic
>>> text editing often give up and seek out faster computers elsewhere.
>>>
>>> "They're not the best laptops in the world," he says. "They're slow and
>>> small, and I notice they have these really good and expensive programs
>>> on them – but some are so slow that it's hard to use them because the
>>> laptop can hardly run them. If we have to do photo editing, most kids
>>> would just use one of the computers at school rather than the laptops."
>>>
>>> That's a pretty low appraisal of devices that were meant to empower NSW
>>> students as citizens of the digital world. Yet they've had the opposite
>>> effect, at least in his Sydney high school, where Lenovo ThinkPad Mini
>>> 10 netbooks (and comparable units from other years) are mainly used for
>>> basic entertainment – or not at all – by kids that find they're just
>>> too much effort for doing real work.
>>>
>>> "I personally use it as little as possible – probably 10 minutes a day
>>> – and most people only use it when they have to," he says. "Everyone
>>> says they never use them on holidays, and if I'm doing homework at home
>>> I wouldn't use it unless I've already started working on something in
>>> it. Teachers know they're pretty bad, and some teachers don't even let
>>> kids use the laptops any more because they find half the kids are just
>>> playing games in class anyway."
>>>
>>> Ref:http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/rudd-giveaway-gripes-stu...
>>
>> Typical government fuckups, piss away a shitload of taxpayers money on
>> photo opportunities and selling the scam, only to hand out wheelbarrows
>> when what was needed was a one tonne ute. Atom CPUs don't have the power
>> to do any more than run basic SIMPLE low level apps. They aren't worth a
>> pinch of shit for image editing and as for video edits, don't even try.
>
> Bullshit, they were meant for basic computer use and not high-end image
> processing.
  Failing on delivery being hardly able to run the installed programs at 
a basic level
>
> This is just another Aussie whinge by blaming someone else for something
> that people could do themselves.
  Rubbish
it is  a valid complaint
>


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