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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.

This is just another Aussie whinge by blaming someone else for something
that people could do themselves.

-- 
Regards, David.

David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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