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Setting up 3000 iBooks in 3 days

Ever wonder what 3000 iBooks looks like? Or how you might go about configuring them? What if you only had three days to do it? Apple consultant Jaron Brass has an amazing gallery of photos. [via Digg.com]
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scoyle17 said 8:13AM on 3-19-2006
wow!, can I have a few?
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HTK said 8:35AM on 3-19-2006
What is a Dell box doing there?
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Khalidur said 8:42AM on 3-19-2006
wow!!!!, that dell looks so out of place.
i got really pissed after the nano was released the day after i bought my mini, imagine being in the position of the school, 3000 laptops, out of date on april 1st :P.
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Nik Fletcher said 8:51AM on 3-19-2006
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet! All those Apple boxes and iBooks! :D
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Brad said 9:40AM on 3-19-2006
There are secret agent ninjas in the Dell box waiting for the moment to steal some of the iBooks and figure out what makes them so damn sexy.
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Excuse me for my terrible English said 10:19AM on 3-19-2006
Dell: "You and what army?"
iBooks: "We are!!! ATTACK!!!"
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Beanie said 10:55AM on 3-19-2006
Man, I hope they recycle all of those iBook boxes, thats kinda sad, seems like such a waste of cardboard.
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Ryan Olsen said 11:53AM on 3-19-2006
These pictures are all old news :P
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brian said 1:47PM on 3-19-2006
so the big "e" in the circle on the dell box kind of reminds me of the enron logo. we can only hope.....
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Pedro said 2:49PM on 3-19-2006
I wish I could have one of those iBooks!!!! ANY iBOOK!!!!
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Dr. Webster said 3:12PM on 3-19-2006
It's kinda stupid they had to go and set up all those machines by hand. They likely built a custom disk image to dump onto the machines (a few photos show some G5's set up to NetBoot the iBooks so they could be imaged), but if they ordered 3,000 they should have been able to give the image to Apple to have loaded on the iBooks at the factory (wouldn't have cost Apple any more money to do that, they already have to dump their standard disk image on every machine they build anyway).
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ruben said 2:10AM on 3-20-2006
Damn i was supposed to go to miramar high before i moved to southern san diego :S GRRrrrrrrrrrrr
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Anthony La Cava said 7:10AM on 3-21-2006
Yea, they use NetBoot. I am friends with the tech that manages the same program at one of the middle schools and he has a netboot image setup.
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***** NO LONGER WITH APPLE ******** said 5:03PM on 4-14-2006
MICROSFT VS APPLE
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My faith in apple has disappeared!!
FORGET APPLE AND GET A PC WITH WINDOWS, JUST BUY MORE MEMORY AND MAKE SURE U HAVE A DECENT GRAPHICS CARD, (will still cost less than a mac!!and for the same price as a mac will run better, even for graphics and videos.)
all we pay for is the design!!!
apple have a history of cover up problems with their machines, just look at all the people with problems with the powerbook, macbooks, and ibooks!!!
** GOOGLE Search "logic board" with "G3", "G4" and see all these people with mac problems.**
If this was a car, u would get a letter in the post calling a recall, if it was windows they fix it with an update...apple, well leave it to us to figure it out and if u get the problem sooner than any 3yr extension replacement program, then great, but any time after that....GOOD LUCK
TO END
if u get an apple machine expect only about only 3yrs of bliss at most if you lucky, just look look at all the people with ibooks G3, which have missed and boat and stuck with a null computer that looks pretty and nothing else
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