A little off the subject, but here a few years back the county where I lived gave every middle and highschool student a macbook. I heard that the numbers dwindled down to the county purchasing each one for about 100 bucks each. It was crazy, now I think the county has decided to go to pc laps instead. Makes ya want to go back to school.

I've been hearing that those PC laptops have already fallen prey to viruses, etc.

heath

Perhaps it was an iBook? The Macbooks didn't exist "a few years back" :-)

We bought several G3 iBooks at work right after they came out (12" model). They were fine for about the first year, then experienced more and more problems. Out of 6 or 7, only one survives intact and isn't really used regularly. The CD drives were the first thing to fail. Several had the screens fail. The original "toilet seat" iBooks were probably a little more robust (we have one of those that still works) but are really s-l-o-w by current standards. My daughter and her boyfriend each have G4 iBooks and they have held up fine so far.

Of course, no one can put technology (or almost anything) through its paces better than kids! One of my students bought an iBook G4 and her kids pretty much destroyed it within a few months.

heath