2010 Mac Pro 12-Core - $300

[CC_333]

You mean South Bay Area, don't you?

Except perhaps for Marin, parts of Sonoma (namely the town of Sonoma, Santa Rosa, Healdsburg and Windsor), and Napa, there's not so much affuence up here as there is down there.

Anyway, I'm staying with 10.9. I'll upgrade to 10.11 eventually, probably when I discover a way to theme it so it looks more or less like 10.9.

Besides, I thought it was still somewhat supported? My understanding is that support for 10.9 will be completely dropped when 10.12 comes next year.

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[Compgeke]

Almost sounds like Napa, New Tech has 2010 15" Macbooks for teachers as well as an organization to handle fundraising and such. To the best of my knowledge they don't have chromebooks (unless they got them this year) but other schools do and they're complete garbage, everything from keyboard to SSD failures. District isn't a Mac district though, everyone else is getting Lenovos (X1 Carbons, worse than the Chromebooks).

 

[olePigeon]

I meant Northern California, South Bay Area.

Yeah, Chromebooks are cheap for reason.  We have some Samsung Chromebooks with about 15 of them district-wide had screens that cracked when you opened them from the corner (so flimsy, the screen flexes when you open it, and the LCD cracks.)

We've had 3 or 4 Acer C120s do the exact same thing.  The C140s actually have aluminum frame, so the screens don't flex when you open it.

 

[Hotdog Zanzibar]

Yep, Mactracker confirms the 2010 MacBooks will support 16gb of RAM. That's pretty cool.