Cheap laptops provoke Mac mayhem

[steve2470]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4159678.stm

A sale of second-hand Apple laptops costing only $50 have caused a near riot in Virginia in the US.

More than 5,500 people queued for a chance to buy one of the 1,000 laptops and stampeded when the sale of the computers started.

In the crush 17 people were injured and four needed hospital treatment.

The four-year-old iBooks were being sold off cheap because Henrico County switched to Apple to Dell to supply laptops for its schools.

Riot gear

People began queuing at the Richmond International Raceway in Henrico County, Virginia shortly after midnight for the start of the 16 August sale.

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[Nomad559]

1. : )

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3871049

:)

[Lerkfish]

2. hey, I like macs, but not THAT much.

:)

[rocktivity]

3. They should have had a lottery

which would have raised a lot more money for the school. I would have been willing to gamble, say, ten bucks on winning one. Then for a couple of hundred bucks you could upgrade it to compete with today's Apples. Coming to think of it, wouldn't it have been more cost-efficient to upgrade them than switch to Dell? That may have to be looked into.

:headbang:
rocknation