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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by germinalphrase on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:12PM (#14248289)
Which is all well and good until my students aren't able to - you know - do basic educational tasks because their computer 'is broken'.

If I - as a teacher - can do an immediate 'restore to neutral state' with core educational files and programs retained then by all means open them up.

Otherwise, I have to be curmudgeon and say that the existence of the computer in the classroom is to more effectively complete educational tasks. If having an open system gets in the way of that then the system should not be open.

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Re:Introducing Surface Laptop by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:35PM (#14248549)
The Chromebook 'powerwash' seems to fulfill this requirement nicely[1] - you can even let students drop the machine into Developer mode, play with Crouton[2] and so on, and if (when) things go wrong, poof, a single chord at startup and you're back. 1: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/183084?hl=en 2: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
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