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On Aug 21, 12:24 pm, David Clayton <dcstarbox-
use...@NOSPAM.yahoo.com.au> 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.
>
Proof?