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I've literally not found a site I can't get to that I actually browse. Android tablets are lagfests. I've got Samsung Galaxy Tab. I know which one I prefer.

iPad. Don't waste your time with an Android tablet unless it's the ASUS Prime... unless you love screen lag.

Every console maker sells consoles at a loss for the first few years. The only exception MAY have been the Wii, I don't recall.

BlackBerry isn't leaving consumer, don't let the article fool you. BlackBerry 10 is a very consumer-driven version of their OS. What they do mean... is that they'll retool and again try to recapture the Enterprise market shares that they've lost. There's plenty of money to be made in Enterprise, and I'd venture to say a good bit more than the consumer market when you consider the server-side software they can produce and sell to businesses. A consumer simply buys a subsidized phone. A business buys a lot more.

I haven't noticed an issue with V10. But I'm running it on a i7 vPro with 16GB of RAM and servers at the moment. I've yet to really attempt it on a terribly slow computer. Be pushing it to 21,000+ clients soon enough, I'll let you know.

A lot of the places you listed are large and super archaic in their technology. We've nearly abandoned XP.

UltraVNC. Never had a problem with it with W7 machines.

Ours is off with a WSUS server up.

I don't think the IT Industry expects you to use touch/voice devices to create information. They're media consumption devices, they've long been considered that, and that's what they are. You can do light creation with them, sure, but nobody wants to write a novel on a smartphone.

Just have to ask this here, because it's kind of confusing reading this forum sometimes. Do most of you in the UK/Europe work at just one school and manage everything that occurs at that school? I only ask because some of the numbers here sometimes seem silly to me. We're managing over 50+ virtual servers and will be managing over 100 by this time next year. We also support 40,000+ students though and over 60 locations. Just curious, it'd help me try to separate my thinking to just one location, as opposed to the entire county that we support.

Sell yourself and tell the truth about what you know. Tell them you're eager and willing to learn, etc. A lot of it is luck, right place - right time, but a lot of it is how you carry yourself. I've been in a few interviews where the person lies about their technical knowledge. An interview for a technology job is not a place to lie about your technical skills, because as soon as someone in the interview senses it, they're going to grill you until your head spins.

Oh yeah and 4G LTE.

1080p video recording, A5X w/ quad core graphics, retina display with 3.1 million pixels. All the rumored stuff, basically. Voice dictation.

We have virtualized, I believe 55 servers, or 56. I can't remember. By the end of next year we will have nearly 100 virtualized. As others have said, backups are a breeze, failover is simple. We have no downtime on our systems that are virtualized because they failover to another running server with no issue. The biggest selling point for us has been the actual dollars saved by virtualizing our environment. We're nowhere near fully virtualized, but we're getting there. We've used Hyper-V to create our own cloud in our data center. The actual monetary value we save each year makes this investment more than worth it.

We do ours that way through group policies set up to specific computers. You could do this with users as well using GPOs and Active Directory security groups. Basically, we do it like this. We set up the printer on the print server (2008R2). We create a security group in AD named what the printer share name is (no reason other than our own information, name it whatever). We personally put the computers that we want to have access to that printer in that group. You could put users instead. At that point, we modify the settings we have for that specific location's printers in GPO. I set item level targeting to be that particular AD security group created and we're good to go. I'm not sure how complex your AD structure is. For us, we have 64 locations, 45,000+ users, and a metric ton of printers. It works very well for us, and what you want to do is very possible.

Retina display. More RAM. A5x chip. Thicker. Better camera. No stylus, no SD card slots.

I've got it on a Dell Latitude ST tablet. I like it on that platform. But God help us all putting this into our schools. I can't imagine needing to teach people a basically ENTIRELY new way of doing desktop computing. XP, Vista, 7, etc... all same basic principles. 8, completely different. Yes, there's a desktop and us techies can figure it out, but can you imagine a normal user with this? I just think it's going to be a disaster in those types of settings. For me personally, I think it's interesting and will be fun to learn and mess with. I just think for the desktop you should be in "Windows 7" mode basically and be able to go to the Metro side. I think on phones, tablets you should be in the Metro side with the option to go to the full desktop. And don't strip features out of the full desktop.

I'm a Server Engineer from North Carolina. Deal with Server 2008R2, 2008, 2003R2, 2003, Novell Netware. Deal with Sophos Anti-Virus to 21,000 computers, Sophos Web filtering for 45,000 users, Sophos e-mail filtering for 5,000 users. Microsoft Group Policy. Google Apps for Education. BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Active Directory. That might be all, I can't remember. Back to work.

Not sure what price range you're looking at and how good you are technologically. The Kindle Fire that just came out is $199 and has already been rooted. Give the dev community some time and they'll have a stable, stock version of Android running on it. If price is no object I'd get the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10. It is easily the best Android tablet currently available. I have both an iPad and the Galaxy Tab, and they are both very good.

We've set up a master account and placed it on the Android devices we have. We have only piloted 30 for Dell so far. The biggest problem we've had is there's no solution for locking them down. If I had to guess, I would assume the teacher does not even use them anymore due to the inability to stop them from accessing any application they'd like. Doesn't help that the tablet had games pre-installed that can't be removed.

The school district I work for uses the 1:1 model. We have started at the middle school level (I'm in the US) and are currently in 2 grades, going to a third after Christmas.. and then moving into the high schools next year. We are currently at probably 7,000 devices. Once we reach all of high school we'll probably be somewhere around 20-25,000 devices in student hands. Our district currently has 20,000+ computers, but obviously those are not going home with students. For the middle school level we have used Dell 2110s and we also have some pilot programs where we use iPads, Android tablets, etc. We will be selecting a different choice for the high schools, I would imagine, because there are certainly some limitations to the netbooks. We have had very few theft issues and very few break issues. All in all, the program has been a massive success here and has really started a massive transformation in how children are learning and the overall technology in our school system.