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Failure rate lower on Chromebooks, iPads than old Macbooks
by Gregory R. Norfleet · News · October 20, 2016
The new Chromebooks and iPads at West Branch schools have a lower failure rate than the Macbooks from the previous four years, according to district officials.
In a memo to the Board of Education, Information Technology Director Doug Cummings reported less than a 1-percent failure rate in the new laptops and tablents.
“It seems like things are going well,” Superintendent Kevin Hatfield added. “I think we had a 5- or 6-percent failure rate when we had the Apples. This failure rate is small compared to what we had in the past.”
The school board heard that the Macbook sale went through as well. At the September board meeting, they sold 523 four-year-old Macbooks to Second Life Mac for $60,000 after the company offered certification that the hardware would get wiped clean.
The IT director said updating the new tech is fast, noting in his memo that he is “able to push applications and configurations to these devices very quickly.”
Cummings said the teachers “have done a great job making adjustments to applications and resources they were using in the Mac environment to work on these new platforms.”
The school district kept a cart of Macbooks, and Cummings said that has been “helpful” while the district determines which applications to use on the new machines, “particularly video capture and editing, and some Kirkwood (Community College) application requirements.”
— Gregory R. Norfleet
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