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

[David Rayment]

Macs consume more problems due to the fact everybody (including my 4
year old niece) knows windows.
They are using intel due to the sole reason linux support is widely
available and there is bugger all support out there for their alpha
chip.

Cheers
David


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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:
> 
> - 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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