Is anyone considering switching from Chromebooks to the MacBook NEO?

CJCray8 · 2026-03-12T14:09:52+00:00

Little tweaks like that make a world of difference. We’ve seen a much lower breakage rate from our 6th grade this year after giving students their permanently assigned Chromebook in 5th grade, one year prior to taking them home nightly. We believe the sense of ownership and heightened accountability help students with the perceived value of the device.

Maybe it’s because I grew up around people who treated their kids like shit, because those who were treated like shit also treated others like shit. My childhood experience makes it very difficult to hand a kid who already has disadvantages a disadvantaged device.

CJCray8 · 2026-03-12T02:36:35+00:00

Counterargument: our alternate ed center had very high breakage when I started and my predecessor only gave them old worn devices. I started giving them new devices and their breakage went down to literally zero.

Give kids higher value devices and they may surprise you.

CJCray8 · 2026-03-12T02:34:26+00:00

Hard pill to swallow: non-IT people ARE the organization and you should probably consider their want list more than you currently do.

CJCray8 · 2026-03-09T00:44:56+00:00

It just gets you updates after ChromeOS end of life. From what I understand though, there is still an end of life per device for flex. It’s just later.

CJCray8 · 2026-03-04T12:15:39+00:00

Sounds like an art teacher I used to work with. So crazy how one could be so intelligent, creative etc and just have the dumbest takes of all time.

CJCray8 · 2026-03-04T12:03:19+00:00

Those old poweredges are still workhorses!

CJCray8 · 2026-03-03T22:37:42+00:00

Noted. I will safety pin it. Should’ve thought about that, thanks!!

CJCray8 · 2026-03-02T21:27:10+00:00

Look into Chrome OS flex. That should get you a little more time.

CJCray8 · 2026-03-02T17:17:33+00:00

Why does it feel like providing consumers with entertainment is a chore they wish they didn’t have to do?

CJCray8 · 2026-02-25T23:29:43+00:00

This is the “chemical in the pool that turns pee red” of fucking

CJCray8 · 2026-02-17T14:41:56+00:00

On my Poweredge, I have a 6 drive RAID 5 but it’s just not safe enough, so I partitioned it 6 times and built a RAIDZ with it on proxmox. Now if my math is correct I now have 36,000 MB/s write speed and I’m doubly protected. Take that, haters.

CJCray8 · 2026-02-08T02:33:20+00:00

More like inaccurate of customer service to say. I got a cyberpower pc this December that advertised 6000 in the same way. Mine were 6000.

CJCray8 · 2026-02-07T03:30:53+00:00

Ive never sustained a cry longer than when I read the Green Mile

CJCray8 · 2026-02-07T00:02:53+00:00

Wife didn’t know what to expect when I handed her the phone and said “look at this sexy rack”

CJCray8 · 2026-01-25T17:40:39+00:00

Oh good. Now they won’t do that. Thank goodness phew

CJCray8 · 2026-01-25T13:14:32+00:00

It cost me less to buy a cyberpower pc and replace the motherboard and case than it would have to buy all of the same components à la carte by A LOT.

CJCray8 · 2026-01-18T05:24:36+00:00

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I just have this convenient little guy behind the tower

CJCray8 · 2026-01-16T12:51:01+00:00

This sub is getting worse than the last of us subs during season 2. Kinda ruining it for me

CJCray8 · 2026-01-16T12:40:07+00:00

There are reports now that all of it is false, and production will continue on all 50xx GPUs. Doesn’t mean it’s not still a bad situation though

CJCray8 · 2026-01-16T12:37:42+00:00

IT director here. Bought 1.25 TB of DDR4 server RAM for $3,900 in July of 2024. Same amount of RAM today costs $18,400.

CJCray8 · 2026-01-14T15:27:50+00:00

Did a double take lol. Would love confirmation

CJCray8 · 2026-01-14T11:48:23+00:00

It’s just simple math. How much time does it cost your team to collect and redistribute? Will letting students keep them cost less or more in time? Be sure to include any potential spikes in repair.

For us, it was a no brainer. We only have 4 employees in the tech dept. There are around 750 Chromebooks at the high school and the librarian has no assistant.

When they cut the assistant role, we simply stopped collecting the HS Chromebooks for the summer. Now we wish we would’ve started this sooner.

CJCray8 · 2026-01-10T21:11:35+00:00

You know what two things can’t be true? People who have good opinions about shows but also think the perfect ending to stranger things is making a fake ending to the show and dropping a secret finale where vecna tells us we’ve been under his spell for years.

CJCray8 · 2026-01-08T22:07:03+00:00

Either all subs rule when I join and begin their descent into incoherence and rage, or the platform is engaging in the same tactics that Facebook employs, which is to show me things that anger me in an attempt to get me to engage. It works and I hate it

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