Technology has completed assignment of older 5 year old macbooks into carts for grade 5s in 5/6 splits, and provided for grade 7s in the district. If somehow we’ve missed you please contact me.
We have 156 remaining along with some others we will hold back for spares for parts.
These will receive end-of-life designation in the next year which means TS won’t be servicing them afterwards. We don’t have a budget to currently service these so anything that can’t be repaired or replaced for free would be up to the school/department to cover.
These 5 year old macbooks will have an OS X 10.6.8 image with software that is licensed from WWP and it will not be updated beyond as the hardware does not support well 10.9 and beyond. There are no printers on the image by default.
At this point we are seeking ideas, suggestions, requests, from schools and staff about how to deploy these devices. Please use the public commenting function below for your suggestion. If any of the suggestions below would have a cost associated that would be up to the school to cover.
A plan will be formulated from these comments and published on the blog around November 14th so comments before then will be taken into consideration.