Friday, January 18, 2002 |
13:42 - How's That for Forward Migration?
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0201/18.migration.php
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Faced with a bewildering multiplicity of hardware profiles in all the students' laptops, a Cincinnati university decided to standardize on a single model of laptop: the 400MHz TiBook.
Result? Support costs are way down, networking problems are gone, classes can sit right down and get to work, and all the software is still covered just fine. And:
The most interesting find: when asked if they would trade their Mac in for a PC isgiven the chance, not one user would, he added. And this coming from a historically PC-centric industry, where most users' previous experience with computers in high school and around the home was with Wintel-based products.
Not one.
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