vani raja

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iTunes U: mobile learning for the next generation #mac #education #itunes

via apple.com

"Teachers are using iLife and iWork applications on the Mac to create customized educational materials, such as language lessons that students can listen to on the bus or at home. And with the help of tools like Podcast Producer and Wiki Server — both of which come with Mac OS X Server — IT professionals at your school can help you produce and distribute all kinds of multimedia content on iTunes U or a class wiki. Once your classroom presentations and lectures have been captured and published, students can download them from iTunes. Then they can transfer them to iPod or iPhone and take it all with them. And suddenly, any place — a café, a bus stop — can be a place to learn."

24 hrs w/ a 13" MBP

All I can think of is 'slick'. The look of light brushed aluminum, the feel of buttery soft smoothness beneath my fingers, the near-silence as it wakes from sleep...
 
Of course, I'm still in a little denial about the having to reboot after the Grey Screen of Death that happened when I inserted an SD card, but we'll let that slide for now.
 
Instead, I'm mostly impressed by what doesn't catch my attention, compared to my old Macbook: no spinning beachballs, no random fans running hard, no twitchy lag when you least need it. True to the Apple ethos, it just works.