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Justifying Mac purchase to company?
Neil Burnside | Jan 21 2008
I have a friend who is a prof at a uni. She wants to use part of her budget to purchase a new laptop for work and prefers a Mac. The uni has a contract with IBM and would prefer her to buy a winbox. They told her she can "opt out" and purchase a Mac as long as she can justify the purchase. Can the 43f HiveMind give us some ideas on how she can justify the Macbook? She is a sociologist if that helps get your creative juices flowing. 5 Comments
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 Depends on what type of university...Submitted by mdl on January 23, 2008 - 9:48pm.
I'm sorry to report that not all university IT departments are quite so flexible. I currently teach at a university where Windows is all but crammed down the throats of faculty and staff. To make matters worse, the IT department sends out scare messages about the danger of worms and viruses--which it then uses as justification to bar Macs running Leopard from the university network, because Leopard and the MacOS in general, according to the IT folks here, is known to have so many security problems?!?! (Do I smell kickbacks from Microsoft?) I called a couple of IT support people to make a case for a Mac, citing LaTeX and a variety of Unix tools. The two people I spoke to had never heard of Unix. So I avoid the horrid XP by running Linux from an external hard drive on the sly. Sorry to be a doomsayer here. I wish your friend better luck. But watch out for universities where administrations that don't know better think it will save money and time to force the entire university to run a single platform. » POSTED IN:
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