macintosh lab help interesting delema for all those out there my school is discussing installing a mac lab of to stations for our bio to classes to do a study with pig disections no joke here is the deal we can get this grant to do a study on if it is more feasible to do a disection via the computer or via the real thing my problem is i was somehow drawn into this project being done by students who want to go mac but know nada about them being the man mac man on campus guess who they came to so i wnt to know what would probably be the best hardware to fill the follwoing list right now we are looking at the c and the vx platforms ok here it goes we are using cd rom so ought we go with the internal apple cd roms offered as options in the and vx or go external it is a matter of price and reliability the second being very important how much ram i was thinking more leaning towards what do you think ok called apple educational discounts and they said their keyboard extended is is it better to go with the apple and their long time great wear and tear record or is there a rd party extended keyboard that is just a reliable price printers one color printer we are presently leaning towrds the thermal wax tektronic e or i probably the e as we are going to limit access so we don t needed the i s networkability so what do you think in terms of color printers different brand kind dye sublimation ink jet price companies s also we are looking to get a laser printer or such to network into the whole lab for noraml printing the fornt runner is the apple pro is that right don t have my notes here at suggestions we have kids using these things all day if this lab goes through and they know nothing about it for the most part it has to be reliable easy to maintain and economical ie not high priced paper cartidges etc finally and this is my little dig into the project what about netting these things we have ether nearby and i would like to slap the macs on the net but server individual ether forget about it it is going to be astronomically priced and the school is going to laugh at you when you ask them little more info i am a poli sci major who just happens to know alot about macs but this is a bit out of my league not to mention i don t have the time to go and look for all of this stuff so i am hoping the collective resources and intelect of the net can help has before shameless plug buy empower great security program disclaimer this post is not and will never be supported by my university they do not condone in any way my using this media to illict info this is a proj by bio majors so they re the real persons anyinfo please send to the email above or to make it real clear rmwbb wittenberg edu and damn i hope my editor is alive when i get done typing s there is not another stupid blank post i reserve the right to claim all this info as mine and use it to get everything i want form my universities red taped administration this info may be used for blackmail purposes and for obtaining undo amounts of praise and god like status this info may also be used to get credits i probaly really don t deserve that is the ned of it any questions and thanks ahead of time once again taping the collective genius of the internet scott d sauer
