"More Straight Talk About the Education Market"

a column by teacher Steve Wood. "Teachers aren't happy with Apple Education, despite the free 'X for Teachers' giveaway. Many share what they think needs to be fixed for Apple to survive."

We offer the link without endorsement of the views expressed therein. We believe Apple is losing market share in education for the same reason that it lost in the business market--the formulation of formal IT departments focussed on short-term (short-sighted) economics, a penchant for dominating clients through obfuscation and maximizing their own career opportunities at the expense of their ignorant employers.

-- Weekend, October 26-27 --

[Update 2:30 pm ET Sat.] PowerLogix "Switcher" Ad is posted on PowerLogix web site. Just click on Lisa Newmyer's image for the QuickTime ad.

[Update 2 pm ET Sat.] Sonnet and PowerLogix G4 CPU Upgrade Speed Benchmarks have been posted here by the on-line retailer OWC. OWC tested the Sonnet single 1 GHz and the PowerLogix single 1 GHz, dual 800 MHz, single 800 MHz and single 700 MHz models. PowerLogix also has a dual 1 GHz model just out. There appear to be a few anomalies in the tests.