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Originally Posted by Penforhire
This is a no-brainer. Apple has the market position. School board members and parents all know the iPad. Same position IBM had in the old days. Nobody in IT ever got fired for buying IBM. Same deal for buying iPads. Buy Jetbooks and you will risk your career.
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Eventually "in the old days" might be used in the same reference to Apple products the way you so freely used it with IBM's. Perhaps people should think about which solution works best for them and makes delivery of their curriculum more convenient.
It seems as if there is a lot of conversion needed to be done in order for the iPad to work for schools and their students. If that is easy to do, then great. Upon first glance at the JetBook, it looks like someone as non-geekish as myself could transfer my data from my laptop into jetBook. Maybe I'm reading the details wrong, but it looks like jetBook is more convenient for school use and the iPad for the rest of us nonscholarly folk. iPad was made for the general population and Etaco made JetBook for students. I'd like to take a look at one and see if my son's school has already tested them.