My school bought everyone mac books last year there amazing! I can do so much on them ! Its like the school just gave me a free laptop to use for school activities next year they want to take full control or them there going to be as useless as a chromebook! this is what the paper says "Next year your status will change from being an administrator to uses. what this means is you will not be able to load programs such as games and other items stored in the hard drive" you have got to be joking It like locking down the whole computer now we have to slow everything down by "upload all things you want to save to google drive" and also they are resting them! WE ONLY HAVE 1 DAY TO DO IT!! you have got to be kidding me I'm not gonna change anything if they try to make me, and since i'm good with computers, I'm gonna try to get my mac back to administrator.. This is not fair, and the only usable thing will be the browser If your taking away all the other things that the computer can do then why even have them? I mean seriously Spoiler: Good thing about my files At least I have over a TB of free storage on my pc, and 3gb of things I want to save so that will be easy
that's the same in literally every school. In my school, we have Windows PCs, only apps installed are MS Edge and MS Office. That's it. You get 500MB user area, and the student drive where all student work is saved for marking. Internet is heavily locked down, any games/videos/music sites are blocked. Only educational sites are allowed, and what really annoys me is "cooltext.com" has been blocked too! (i used to make revision posters, now i can't!). We also have printing limits, each page is 0.015p and we have £2.50 for the month. Not too bad, but it can run out if you are in exam month!
School gave you computers for education. Playing games and watching porn is not education. School did nothing wrong by making it impossible to do. Complaining about it is the same as saying "The workshop gave me a replacement car while mine is being repaired, and guess what? Bastards won't even let me run it in a demo derby!".
Whats annoying here is that they make us download a lot of things, and i'm also gonna use the macbook for other things like research that is not even school related. I mean if you just need to be on the internet then use a desktop pc or something. Macbooks are expensive and can do a lot of things. Why would they restrict 98% of what it can do. Right now they restrict lots of things already but there small things like not being able to use the terminal and other things no one at this age would use frequently I do have programs that bypass that but still its annoying --- Post updated --- Yes, but thats literally all that you could do on it they mentioned heavy lock down, i wont even be able to do a quick google search normaly
School computers are someway a privilege. For my school, it's not too restricted (though you cannot be using it inappropriately, otherwise your privileges are cut from using them for a while). The thing I hate about the chrome-books is that they are a pain in the ass sometimes, especially when the internet connection is bad, or it becomes laggy.
Funny all this complaining. When I was still in school, the PCs almost always ran Windows XP, except a few I encountered running Windows 95 as well as some old Apple IIs. Schools sometimes gave students a floppy disk to save their work on and not even a network drive, It got better towards the end of it, but still... Oh, and try to search for some random product? Blocked, category: shopping. Yeah, not even kidding about how bad the internet filter was. Then I went to college and ended up getting Windows 10 Education Edition for free, which I still use. Its identical to the Enterprise Edition, and is the best version of Windows 10 you can get pretty much since all features are unlocked.
If a school purchased the machine, they can do whatever they want with it. I use my own computer and my own hotspot in school, and they can't do anything to it. I have a way I can break into computers and disable parental controls, but I only do it to my machines. Remember, a school machine is a PRIVILEGE, not a right.
I have a chromebook from school and it does nothing, I cant't load more than 20 web pages for a history report (it only has 2gb ram). I cant use it for any other activities and have been limited bu not being able to download anything for robotics. worst of all they force us to use google drive and it recently deleted half of my history paper and i had to rewrite it all in one night. it has a dual core celeron and doesn't have the power even to run cool math games without lag. Half of the settings are locked down and they even turned off the dinosaur game, the problem is that is the only thing you can do when the wifi is down. it completely relies on the internet. The other thing is if you can find something compatible, there is only 8gb of storage, and most of it is taken up by the os. It isn't reliable too, about 3 months after we got my brothers, his keyboard broke because it's all cheep plastic, if you want to waste $200, buy the hp chromebook 11 g5
What kind of amateurs run that school to have you had Admin level in a first place? Every pro knows that is asking trouble, it should of been only user level since day 1, they just failed and are now trying to fix that and taking bad piss because they were incompetent to do it right from the start. But it sucks for the students not being able to use tools to their fullest, but that is what it comes to when there are too many kids doing stuff they should not do on their school computers. We didn't have computer in school, like at all, there was one phone, but it was not allowed to be used, only principle was allowed to use the phone. Mobile phones were not invented back then, then again there was no internet either, school has changed a bit from those days
It could be a lot worse... My middle school gave us (what was new at the time) 2010 unibody plastic macbooks that had endless quality issues. While we retained admin rights, we were constantly monitored through screen sharing and usage statistics. In addition, we had a lot of stuff pre-loaded (1/2 of which I never used) and HDDs failed left and right.
I remember when we first had to get our own computers for school. We were supposed to bring them in for "registration" before school started. What they meant by that is they would install LANschool, so they can control the computers. They didn't tell anyone they did, but I knew. I uninstalled it the second I got home. The school ended up getting in trouble for doing that without permission from the owner of the computers, and one person almost went to jail, but got out of it for some reason. I feel you buddy.
