My laptop courtesy of the K Rudd government

Ok say as you may or may not know, all australian year 9 students recieved there own laptops as part of the DER (digital education revolution) campaign. All laptops are free and the students are allowed to keep them provided they finish year 12. Year 9 students of 2009 from all around Australia recieved them, making us the first students to test out this new program. Our schools model (don't know if different schools get different models) is the Lenovo S10e. Since they are bought in extreme bulk, they are really cheap (between $200 and $400) but the software (if you buy it like a sucker) is worth around $4000. Instead of photoshop CS4 we get photoshop elements... They are meant to not be able to run exe files etc etc etc. This is to ensure students don't abuse there laptops to play games. It should be a good solution but unfortunately upon right clicking the application, using the option "run as administrator" allows anyone to use those programs. Sure it's nice to play peggle nights or CS CZ on our laptops but i'm seriously dissapointed at this fail attempt to stop us playing games... When I informed a few of my teachers that we were able to play games on our laptops, they were absolutely dumbfounded. Anyway moving on i have some pictures i took of my laptop. I have a few comic books and some manga on my laptop. So far the funniest thing to happen with our laptops was a cracked version of GTA vice city, in it there was a folder called anim. The person who began to circulate it around the school put a movie clip in there called boxing match. People curious as to what type of boxing match this was watched the video and much to their (and my) surprise it was a hardcore porno. We then asked people around the school if they wanted to watch an intense boxing max. We photographed their reactions and compiled them into a video. very funny stuff. Anyway if anyone else has a different model of laptop i'de love to see it.






yes that is a bag of doritos

 

I'm a year 9 though... And I live in Australia, why haven't I gotten mine??

 

All I got is the crappy stimulus package that gave me my psp

 

The subwoofer bit made me drool all over mine...but I can connect mine up to my stereo anyway

You sure know what you want there sir...but you mentioned some parts got repleaced or swapped...was this one of those upgradable laptops?

 

Do these Governments give you any old crap to keep the costs down.Ive never heard of that brand the original poster has and Acer are not good.
I quite liked the Toshiba satellite pro range,but I thought big corporations etc bought Dell..

 

Thats a good budget they gave you,I thought they only gave you £500.Is that laptop/budget you had from 10 years ago.
I once owned a Sony toughbook-cost £3000 and that was crap,but that was 15 years ago.

 

Loony,what would you go for now with that sort of budget,in case any students are wondering...

 

We don't get laptops for free in the US.... but it wouldn't matter if the year 9 students did get them this year, i'm in 12...

 

I was talking to 2 x student birds and they told me you only get a free laptop here if your dyslexic

 

Our school supplies us with a free homework planner. Good stuff. :

 

I am in year 10 in Australia
All the year 9's run around talking about proxies and facebook, then moan about them being blocked.
I am not envious.

 

yes lots of people do moan about the net being blocked, a few of my friends and myself all found ways around the internet blocking. Not hard, but now everyones asking us about it and bugging us about it.

 

US Government giving us laptops??? lol, never happen. Our nations school programs are horrible. I remember in 7th grade and i would ask questions about stuff in the book, and i got kicked out of class for asking stuff the the teacher didn't even know.