The other downside to local user accounts is a loss of control over that system. Either the user will fail to backup, or you and your staff will have to backup each computer personally.
Of course the information can be backed up to an external source but unless that process is simple, and seemless to the end user you will likely not have much success. Should some component of that laptop fail, like the hard disk, the user can easily lose all their information or at least lose access to in while the machine is being repaired. First and foremost the user can only access their data from that particular laptop and not from any other computer on the network. This solution is far from ideal in a number of ways. It consists of an account locally stored on the computer, with all the users data kept on the internal hard drive of the computer. The local user account option is the standard laptop setup that most people use.
Management of Notebook accounts is a little more difficult then the typical user account, in order to create a managed enviornment for the user and maintain the integrity of your network you are faced with 3 options: Local User Accounts, Standard Managed Accounts, and Mobile Accounts. I was not a part of this decision making process, it was before my time, but to me the purpose of providing the teachers with a MacBook instead of an iMac is to allow them to take there work home, or at least out of the classroom enviornment. We made the decision to provide our elementary school teachers with an Intel iMac in the classroom (In addition to the 3 g3 iMacs, and 5 g4 ibooks for students), and the MacBooks for the Middle School teachers. The idea of course is to provide our teachers with the ability to utilize advanced technologies in the classroom while making it more convient for them to do the preperation and grading required to maintain that classroom.
Over this past week, spring break in my district, we prepared over 130 MacBooks for deployment in our two middle schools, Hinsdale Middle school and Clarendon Hills Middle School.
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