A decision of the Toronto District School Board to switch from Macs to PCs is proving controversial, reports say. The changeover was first announced on November 13th, and has since been explained as happening because a PC can be bought for less than the cost of an equivalent Mac; PCs are further described as having cheaper and easier automatic maintenance. "The Apple computer in a large-scale network -- their capabilities for automatically managing that many machines really pales to what's available in the PC world," says the TDSB's general manager of Information an