School Regrets Swapping Laptops For iPads 504
Barence writes "A school swapped all its staff laptops for iPads — and now wants to switch them back. 'Most staff are IT illiterate and jumped at the chance of exchanging their laptop for an iPad,' a teacher from the school told PC Pro. Now, however: 'the staff room is full of regret.' Difficulties editing old Word and PowerPoint documents, transferring work to and from the device without USB sticks, and problems with projecting the iPad's display to the classroom — bizarrely, using an Apple TV — have led to staff once again reaching for their Windows laptops."
Shoulda (Score:0, Funny)
chose Android, you dumb bitches.
Re:Forget about editing just old Word and PP (Score:5, Funny)
Android (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Forget about editing just old Word and PP (Score:5, Funny)
Tablets make a great spoon and terrible kitchen tool. They're good for consuming, but not much else.
They do, however, make an excellent cutting board [youtube.com].
Re:What were they expecting? (Score:5, Funny)
>> ...how they would accomplish their day to day work with an iPad...
I can browse /. on an iPad just fine, thanks very much.
Re:Forget about editing just old Word and PP (Score:5, Funny)
Fart apps changed the world. True story.
Re:What were they expecting? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but typing more than a sentence or two will make me go bald.
Re:What were they expecting? (Score:5, Funny)
Based to your UID, you're probably already bald.
Re:Sounds like a training issue.. (Score:5, Funny)
But they are Apple products. They are not supposed to be a "training issue".
Re:Forget about editing just old Word and PP (Score:5, Funny)
And if you want a knife to use with that fancy new cutting board, you'll need to buy a MacBook Air.
Re:when real learning needs to be done (Score:4, Funny)
I wondered why that should be, so I clicked on the page and the first thing I saw was this:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3099809&cid=41255213 [slashdot.org]
Yes, I can see why the person who would post that might find his karma in the dumps. Most comments are actually quite reasonable. Others, not so much.
Re:Forget about editing just old Word and PP (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, you have violated the groupthink by posting that people are creating content with tablets. You will now be modded down for telling the truth.
Assuming any tablet users are able to actuate the moderation widget.
Re:Rethinking how to interact (input/edit) (Score:0, Funny)
So basically, he's holding it wrong.
Re:It's a status symbol. (Score:5, Funny)
You wrote this post on an iPad, didn't you?
Re:Why did you tell me that? (Score:4, Funny)
OOO look I am -1 flamebait now. I think that is the first time that has happened to me. I shall treasure it like the day I got perfect karma. :)
No the moderation to my post doesn't bother me. Franky I think there are too many moderation types. I think there should be only two: this adds to the conversation/this detracts from the conversation. After that there should be some tags you can apply: troll, funny, rathole, ontopic, etc.
Then I could could ask to see all ontopic, not funny (because they never are actually funny), posts rated 3 or above. /. would seem like a much more interesting place that way.
That being said, I probably still would have been downvoted, because /.'ers are still /.'ers :D
Re:Forget about editing just old Word and PP (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why did you tell me that? (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe if you had used a laptop it wouldn't have taken you all year.