Apple Gives Jaguar Free to All U.S. K-12 Teachers

Apple Gives Jaguar Free to All U.S. K-12 Teachers

CUPERTINO, California October 17, 2002 Apple today announced its X for Teachers program that gives a free copy of Mac OS X version 10.2 "Jaguar" to every K-12 teacher in the U.S. "Jaguar" combines a stable and robust UNIX-based foundation with Macintosh’s legendary ease-of-use to create the world’s most advanced operating system for teaching, learning and administration. The free copy of "Jaguar" is accompanied by free copies of Apple’s Digital Hub applications – iMovie™ for digital video editing, iPhoto&trad; for organizing and sharing digital photos and iTunes&trad; for building a digital audio library.

A nice idea, but without hardware (maybe some educational discounts on eMacs, if that hasn’t been done?) I’m not sure what good this does. I’d certainly be pushing it at my son’s school, but their old Performas won’t be able to run it.