Update: Only Durham College students will have a choice of laptops next year. UOIT students will still have to buy into the mobile learning program.
A reporter from The Chronicle today was interviewing students in the Commons about what they think about UOIT ending the laptop program. She stated that next year students will have the choice of either having their own laptop or purchasing the school laptop at a discount. The reported said that the decison has already been made (for Durham College students).
Durham college technology students use the same model of laptops as the UOIT students. In the past they were sold to their students at the discounted price of $600 each. Note that none of the schools plans have been officially announced.
And now my rant:
The mobile learning program is really not useful. It’s expensive. It support is unhelpful, for example: 3 months waiting for a replacement battery & their solution to any problem is reimaging your computer, meaning you lose everything. The version of Windows XP they put on the computer and want you to use is so slow and buggy. It really makes it not worth getting having their software. I put my own operating system on my computer, and many of my friends do too. It defeats the point of everything. Which is where I find myself at the start again, there is no good point in having the laptop program.
