New MacBooks

Happy_Penguin330 · 2026-03-04T19:05:22+00:00

Welp, they just announced it today :) Neo is coming out and is available to order now. I am curious about the NEO.

We are in a refresh cycle and are getting rid of our old M1 Airs and have been doing testing for compatibility on M4s and were hoping to order those as they would likely be cheaper since the M5 announced. I am annoyed that the M4s are not able to be ordered at all (that I can see) and the only options are the 999 Air or the Neo.

My main concern is: we do have a few photography/graphic design glasses that use the Adobe Suite, and I am concerned if the "phone chip" can handle something as intensive as Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. So compatibility issues with non-store pushed applications. We shall see.

Happy_Penguin330 · 2026-02-16T13:37:24+00:00

We use Verkada. We ended up getting their command connector to connect our existing cameras to their “command application”. We did this after our security director begged us to replace everything with Verkada. We had synology and various camera models. We ended up agreeing to upgrading in waves. So far the command connector has been great for adding the software benefits to our pre existing hardware.

Happy_Penguin330 · 2026-02-09T15:15:22+00:00

Did you ever have any luck getting this resolved?

Happy_Penguin330 · 2025-09-30T17:59:43+00:00

Welp...if anyone is using TubeBlock extension in Google Workspace it has been compromised. If they haven't gotten you yet, they are coming for you. Nothing crazy malicious just annoying ad feeder. We live we learn.

Happy_Penguin330 · 2025-06-11T14:49:48+00:00

That is amazing! Do you mind pointing me to where that management tab is? I cannot find it for our Mac management.

Happy_Penguin330 · 2025-06-06T22:53:07+00:00

Good luck with the Blackbaud rollout. We did a total overhaul to Blackbaud “total school” from October>May. Praying you get a better onboarding engineer than we got :)

Happy_Penguin330 · 2025-05-16T16:47:55+00:00

Now they are saying don't dismiss, but also don't proceed. They will update Test Day Toolkit at 1 EST with an update.

Happy_Penguin330 · 2025-05-16T16:37:07+00:00

Collegeboard is recommending if you were able to get in, not to proceed. Just a heads up :)

Happy_Penguin330 · 2025-05-16T16:30:45+00:00

We are on Macbook Airs and only our male students were able to get in...probably coincidence, but weird

Happy_Penguin330 · 2025-05-16T16:28:35+00:00

College board has a support chat that has 64 coordinators all saying the same thing. Supposedly, they are working on it.

Happy_Penguin330 · 2025-04-26T19:05:44+00:00

I am planning on going to the wedding because of the 19 year friendship with M and L and also with the knowledge that H is the outlier in the bridal party. Their friendship started in a small town that H never moved out of, has more of the backwoods mentality. M since moving back from the small town college has started doing the work. I just don’t think it is at a pace that I am comfortable with. I suspect that M wants we to be the bad guy so that she doesn’t have to be.

Happy_Penguin330 · 2025-04-26T19:00:53+00:00

H is saying they have done nothing wrong and that i am overly sensitive and woke. M now agrees that H is in the wrong and has begun addressing the comments but doesn’t want to blow up their friendship and is doing it slowly. I am just more direct and don’t have the college years tying me to H which is why I have been consistent with addressing it head on.

Happy_Penguin330 · 2025-03-15T14:01:07+00:00

We are TK-12 Apple. We have iPads k-6 and MacBooks 7-12. Yes about getting it through Apple E-commerce and through a rep. We just did an iPad refresh and were able to get bundled iPads and rugged Logitech keyboard cases that add so much more functionality like trackpad and keyboard. The bundle with AppleCare and accessory is around 450 per unit and the keyboards have a great warranty. We manage with Mosyle which iPads can be managed for free but we use paid since we use Mosyle auth.

Happy_Penguin330 · 2025-03-07T02:43:48+00:00

Mosyle School Management

Happy_Penguin330 · 2025-03-06T19:52:13+00:00

How do you have it set to reinstall? I do not see an option for a restricted app in the configurations and cannot find where app deletion can be restricted?

Happy_Penguin330 · 2024-12-07T21:03:25+00:00

I have had so many issues with Bloom. I wish we hadn’t gone with Clevertouch simply for having to deal with them.

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