50% aren't paying federal income taxes because their income is so LOW. As wages continue to stagnate, fewer people cross the line where they pay taxes. Don't understand wage stagnation? Don't think it's happening? My GF is in the food business. She was a restaurant manager in the early 2000's and started at 36k / yr. She found a position the other day similar to that one, with about twice the responsibility and hours, guess the pay? Yup, 36k. All the jobs she finds similar to that one from the early 2000's are all around the same number. Now what costs have gone up since then? Everything. As long as this continues nothing is going to get better.

This is why I despise the "trickle down" arguments made by the GOP and TEA parties. It used to work, but just does not anymore. The money goes up, and is never paid back down, at least not in the amounts (by percentage) that they used to. People need to spend more money to get out of this, but they have to earn more to start. No amount of education can escape teh fact that people are being paid at rates from 10, in some cases 20 years ago.

It is incredible except for one thing, it's 4:3, not 16:9. This and this alone have held me back.

I would gladly take a "bulky" device with a ton of battery. I don't understand the the tablet manufacturers all trying to copy the thinness of the fruit product. Keep them relatively slim, but kill em on battery life. Take the transformer, it's thin enough and light enough. Now that they CAN make it slimmer than the fruit product DONT, fill the space with frigging battery!

They have pretty much lost the school system I work for with this rigid, we know better attitude. All administrators are on the lenovo tablet now. Supports AD and computrace right out of the box. Management tools are robust and support windows environments. We're ramping up to put tablet products on the schedule for students, it'll probably be the lenovo k1 ( or its upgrade) by then.

We had a school get 38 kindle fires, didn't ask IT of course. When we described the hell they would have to go through to manage and actually buy anything on them they were hastily returned, except the 1 that was opened. They were shocked that no, you cant buy stuff for all of them at once. Yes, you'll ned 38 different email addresses. No, if they get stolen they are gone and there is jack we can do to get them back.

This is ultimitley why PC sales are down. Good enough old systems coupled with a broke populace = no new sales. Take it from someone who fixes computers for a living. My sales are way up as more people are getting older systems upgraded or repaired because they're still fast enough, and cheaper than a new machine. Ultrabooks aren't going to do dick to spur sales, as they are too expensive (even at price points like 649 usd) and most customers I talk to plan to spend less than 500 when they absolutely need a new machine. Apple is running out of people that can afford their product, and with food and fuel expected to surge next year I am fairly sure they have peaked. If people have to choose between an idevice or food and a non idevice I think we all know which one wins.

What design work? Apples products are nothing but "plain Jane" design.

1 and 2, the taxpayer, no doubt. Because we pay 50 dollars a box to set them up (which central IT can do ourselves, but don't because then we don't get the warranty benefits, don't worry we're fixing that.) and then pay for "extended accidental protection", to the tune of another 110 per box. The hardware vendor makes out great, the taxpayer gets screwed.

3. in the school system I work for, about 3 days, because they refuse to properly staff support.

4. Upgrades only come after we have spent the cost of a new machine supporting the old ones, so about every 8 to 10 years or so, again this is based on the school system for which I work. Schools get told to upgrade, blow the money on other unnecessary things, then cry to us when their 8 year old machine isn't fast enough to even load our minimal image to it. We have some schools sitting on P3 machines because the principals wasted all the tech money for the last 12 years on other crap, and then have the nerve to DEMAND that central IT "get them something"

What does the buyer do when the guts of the TV are outdated in 2-4 years? buy another one? Unless the guts are replaceable, or people start buying tv's every 4ish years, this won't work.

TWX is spot on in his comments. A bit to add...

Get classroom management (for computer labs) software like LanSchool. Then you can face the machines however you want. With software like this you can see all the monitors, lock computers, turn the internet off, etc. You can get a demo version from their website (www.lanschool.com)

Also make sure the room has proper cooling. We have schools losing machines left and right because AC is "too expensive" So is replacing lab machines every 2 years due to failure from overheating. At one school their entire lab failed in about 14 months, and cost 4x what installing AC would to replace. This brings another point, if a tech (like me) tells you something LISTEN TO IT. Usually this isn't a problem as it's the principals that truly don't listen to us. We tell you something, you tell your principal and then nothing happens. If this happens to you, email the tech and get a written suggestion from them, forward it to your principal. It'll save your ass if same principal tries to blame you later on for a failure that could have been avoided by LISTENING TO THE TECH. I hate to use caps, but it's that important.

The problem with personal devices in education is 1) The average user expects us to support them. We take no responsibility for anything a school didn't buy through the correct channels. 2) Legally protected data travels round on machines we cannot track 3) See #2 4) See #2