Over winter break, the district purchased new technology for the school’s journalism and business departments. The print journalism and broadcast journalism rooms received new Mac computers while the business classes received newer, updated Dell computers.

Approximately 1,274 Dell computers were purchased along with 150 Mac computers. The total cost of the new technology received was approximately $1.3 million.

Graphic design teacher Jerry Howard thinks the new Macs will help improve his class.

“[The Mac computers] are faster, better, bigger and the size is much better,” Howard said. “You can also open more applications, which is useful in graphic design.”

Business teacher Adam King has not seen much improvement in the hardware but wants to see improvement in the software in the new Dells.

“Currently I haven’t seen much change in the new computers from the old ones,” King said. “But we hope to be able to maintain the new software that we will be implementing for the classes.”