On Saturday, September 25, 2004, at 07:00 AM, Howard R. Katz wrote:
At 12:39 AM -0400 9/25/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:He blurted out "Macs? *laugh* No, no... these people use PCs. Mac wifi cards
would be of no use...!"
In spite of the fact that ALL of the 16-bit wifi cards I use have WinDoze
software also, I nodded in "agreement," thanked him and moved on...
I know this is off-list-topic, but: one of my part-time jobs is working in a computer lab for a local University.
I once had a salesdrone tell me that Macs couldn't do TCP/IP, that that was Windows-only...
But on the bright side, the Switcher subversion program is working. 6 years ago, I was told that if I didn't stop recommending Macs, I'd be in trouble.
In March, I finally replaced my PC on my desk at work with a Mac.
Last month the Dean of the College got a 12" Powerbook for his home use. Last night, while walking to my bike, I ran into him, and he was mentioning that his PC at home is making a strange noise (It's an old Gateway Profile AIO), and that his wife REALLY loves the new Powerbook.
So I told him about the new iMacs 8-> He asked if I thought they were in the new Apple store yet, I said, probably. We'll see if he has a new computer after this weekend.
Roughly half of one department is all or mostly macs, they have a good beach-head in another, and I'm starting in on the rest. It didn't hurt that of the last 9 faculty hires in that department, 4 came in with Macs for them and their labs, and told out IT director that, no, they weren't in the slightest interested in giving up their Macs.
Since there were two center directors and a department head in those hires;-) they're carrying a bit of weight. So we've gone from two Macs when I started to more than 30 now. Also an increasing number of our students are coming in with Macs, which number just increased by one yesterday when I helped a grad student install her airport card and get her brand new iBook up on the network.
(now, of course it's meant that I've been kept busy, since I'm the only support for them, and them being Mac folks, expect support as good as their computers. The other folks in our office are like your students 'Oh it's different, I can't learn that!' Pussies. I've had to learn Linux, all the flavors of Windows, OS 9 and OS X...plus Oracle, HTML, perl and sql, and I was just a defrocked biochemist who knew Applesoft Basic when I started ;-)
But there's a slight change in the wind, a low noise in the ground. I don't know if it's a real shift or just a momentary sidestep, but I think people are starting to wake up...people I would have NEVER thought would switch are thinking about it, at least.
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