Dorky says:

Those guys are pathetic. Beat someone up with a chair coz he was pushing in front line? Next time i’ll bring a gun. So the guy with the stupid chair don’t let me find you pushing in front of the line — I’ll gun you down.

Andrew says:

And for four-year-old computers, too. Sheesh. These folks need to hear about eBay. :)

Chuck Staples says:

I think would have occurred regardless of the platform. There are a lot of folks to whom the price of entry for even a basic PC is too high. This represented a rare opportunity for them (watch the video clips, do you see Izod or Polo shirts, etc.).

This has nothing to do with Mac users and a chunk of them being cultish. It has everything to do with Henrico dealing with the sale incorrectly.

Please don’t let your beef (as much as it is deserved) with the likes of MacDailyNews and it’s many delusional posters bias your opinion.

gnomic says:

I’m reporting this from ground zero - I live in this town and I’m a relative newcomer to the area.

My brother in law asked me to pick one up since he could afford the $50. This wasn’t a MAC thing - this was too many people wanting too few computers that were priced too cheap and poor planning and crowd control by our public officials.

A larger question is “Was this a good use of taxpayer resources?” The county could have sold the systems on ebay at a price set by the market. They could have sold them to a refurb company like epcusa.com. They could have had a lottery. The could have done a lot of things that would have resulted in the taxpayers recouping more money and less chance to appear stupid. But then, they did buy the Macs in the first place - not the best tool to prepare kids for the business world that overwhelmingly uses IBM PC type computers.

Jason Lockhart says:

1. The sale was undeniably conducted poorly (to say the least).
2. This was certainly not a “Mac” thing. If it was four year old cars going for 1/20th their value, sold in the same fashion, you would have seen the same results.
3. Asinine and uninformed comments about platform choices are ridiculous. It’s the right tool for the right job. Period. You have multiple tools in your tool chest to do different jobs, you have more than one power tool. Why on Earth would you have ONLY one computer platform to do the myriad of business, home, research, and instructional computing needs? For the AVERAGE, non-hobbyist (no technical background) computer user there’s nothing wrong with the Mac or its capabilities. Say games and you lose more credibility. Computers are tools, not toys to those with a clue.
4. Lemmings suck!

Jason Again says:

5. Don’t drink the Kool-aid!