“I am a first-year high school English teacher, and I was
looking to get computers in my room so I could have a writing lab.
I was temporarily elated when our tech coordinator informed me via
email that a dozen iMacs had been donated to the school and I was
welcome to take a few for my room.“My excitement dissipated, however, when I learned the iMacs
were built around the the turn of the century. 350mhz processors,
128MB or RAM, no firewire or USB 2. OS 9.2–yuck. These computers
couldn’t even load cnn.com without flipping out…”