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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.