[Technical] Notebooks for New Staff - DET needs to help

[Stephen Digby]

Assume that they will be switchable from Mac to Win OS...
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From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Con Zymaris
Sent: Monday, 20 February 2006 5:09 PM
To: Technical Discussion in Schools Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Technical] Notebooks for New Staff - DET needs to help

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 04:57:48PM +1100, Stephen Digby wrote:
> Words of wisdom again. Jim.
> We now have many Macs on the network both a notebooks and desktops BUT there are two main problems:
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> - Macs consume far more tech assistance due to integration problems 
> with a Windows network environment (eg many apps do not yet offer Mac based versions etc etc etc)  Roll on the new Intel Macs !

What makes you think that the new Intel-based Macs are more likely to offer support for Windows apps?


> - anecdotal observations indicate staff with Macs tend to have a higher 
> proportion of non work related activity on their macs while at work and home

<tongue --> cheek> Perhaps you can get them all to use Linux? That'll
reduce their home pleasure activities ;-)

Cheers,

Con Zymaris

- CEO, Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
- Director, Open Source Industry Australia, Limited.
- Convenor, Open Source Victoria (A Government-funded industry cluster.)
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