An elementary school located in the North American city of Sarasota is adhering to a local policy that is said "PC-only" for renovating their computers, although the equipment that already exists at the institution will be entirely made up of Macs. The story would even be reasonable to swallow, had a news item not appeared in a local newspaper claiming that the machines would go straight to the trash.
In total, there are only 190 Macs G3 and G4 (among iBooks, iMacs and eMacs) that would be going to waste in full condition to continue working. of PCs. School officials even suggested selling them or donating them to the children themselves, but both ideas were denied by the board.
O Cult of Mac he received some photos of the set of Macs that are being replaced (some of them you could see above), but it is not necessarily known if the computers in them will go to waste. A reader there asked for clarification from the local administration, which said it was sending the machines for refurbishment and donation; only those that do not have operating conditions, which I doubt is the case for a school, if all are the same, they will be destined to a company that appears to make the correct disposal of the material in recycling programs.
This may alleviate the situation, but there is a problem: due to licensing issues, the software on the machines must be removed in order to be donated. As they are somewhat old from five to ten years old, not being able to run the latest available Mac OS X, it will not be easy to find software that can be used correctly in them after the donation, that is, a useless bureaucracy that makes these Macs closer to being trashed. Sad…
(Tip from Marcelo Melo, thanks!)
