Henrico’s iBooks go on sale for $50 Aug. 9
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jul 23, 2005 at 1:58pm
Henrico County (Virgina) Public Schools has announced that used iBooks (12-inch models with 320MB of RAM) will be on sale for US$50 each on Tuesday, Aug. 9, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
“One-thousand laptops will be sold at the school warehouse, which is located at 361 Dabbs House Road beside the Eastern Government Center,” reports the Richmond.com Web site. “The laptops will be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis. There will be no waiting list. Only cash or checks will be accepted.”
For more information, contact Mychael Dickerson, director of media relations and safety for Henrico County Public Schools, at mddickerson@henrico.k12.va.us, or 804-652-3724.
In April the school system decided to ditch Apple and go with Dell computers. The Henrico County School Board voted on June 16 to distribute Dells to every high school student and teacher next year. Middle school students and teachers and elementary school teachers will continue using iBooks, while high school students and teachers will switch to Dell.
loki capret Says:
I hope that Norton is giving them a discount on software for each machine. $50 isn’t going to last very long toward the maintenance of each of those Dells…
Posted on July 23, 2005
Couple of Questions Says:
Are they G3 or G4 iBooks?
Posted on July 24, 2005
Brian Peat Says:
While I think getting stuff cheap is cool, it seems like a total waste of school money, since they could make a killing on these selling them for a few hundred bucks each. Instead of $50,000, they could make $300,000.
Anyway, I thought the original story said they were being offered to people FROM the school district, not the general public.
Posted on July 24, 2005
Bob Dohl Says:
i have to agreee w/ brian peat. THEY SHOULD BE OFFERING THEM TO COUNTY RESIDENTS ONLY FIRST, NOT THE PUBLIC. I think they are a bunch of s*** heads
Posted on July 26, 2005
JT Says:
Anyone know if Tiger will run on these?
Posted on July 26, 2005
puppet Says:
no they are offering to the general public and the site has been moved to the raceway
Posted on July 28, 2005
thewhosbestfan Says:
Will these be able to…
burn c’ds
play dvds
I heard they only have about 10 gigs of hard drive space…
you can get a hard drive upgrade right? how much would that cost
I like the fact that these come with airport cards ;-)
Posted on July 30, 2005
thewhosbestfan Says:
save your money if you’re planning on coming to virginia for the nineth. the sale is now only available to henrico residents, and it is now changed to the 16th. so unless you live in henrico county, virginia...you’re sol
Posted on August 05, 2005
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
Heroin Says:
It’s important that someone tell all prospective buyers that Mac OS X Panther can run on these. Everyone who buys one of these iBooks should do a clean erase-and-install of Panther on them.
You can get it here. (I’m not connected to OWC in any way.)
Posted on July 23, 2005