More on Yale
I forget who originally posted about Yale, but here's some follow-up from macosrumors.com, Sept. 19:
"For those unaware of the situation, Yale University's Daniel Updergrove, Director of Information Technology Systems, issued a letter at the beginning of the semester to students saying that Yale would not support Macs past the year 2000 and suggesting that students switch to Windows. Here's how the situation has played out, according to one student there:
'I was talking to one of the yale microcomputer support center (MCSC) employees today, and it turns out that updergrove's letter has caused an uproar. the MCSC, expecting sales to reflect that letter, ordered huge quantities of wintel machines and software, and basically NOTHING for the macintosh. as a result, it is utterly impossible to get hold of a mac at academic prices (they are quoting delays of up to 2-3 months for high-end models!!),
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'the yale student newspaper has carried articles about previously mac-savvy freshmen, terrified by that letter into buying wintel machines, being reduced to tears of frustration while attempting to hook up to the campus network. the telephone lines of the MCSC technical support office are constantly busy, and they have been asking their mac experts to try and sort out wintel problems, they are so overwhelmed.
'... an alumnus who was going to give the computer science department a ONE MILLION DOLLAR bequest has turned out to be a mac lover, and withdrew the offer!!! that's the way to do it--hit them in their wallets! latest rumor is that uptergrove's position is now extremely precarious, because he has cost the university such a huge sum of money (not to mention pissed off lots and lots of students). the MCSC staff, most of them graduate students and almost all mac people, are also up in arms--my source could hardly contain his glee about the lost bequest--because they were not consulted, given no forewarning, and many of them had little or no experience with wintel machines.'"
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On another topic, in relation to your post #5048 re PowerComputing, Bill Jackson says:
"Why not leave the memory alone and make a greater price cut?? The old Power would have done that, leaving the customer to buy his own memory at the best price(lots less than Power/Apple). When you try to put the customer in a box he usually kicks his way out. . . . these are natural price cuts just to maintain industry parity, but the way they are done show a lack of marketing knowledge."
Bill
Bill: The old Power would _not_ have done that. The "old Power" did offer large memory (and other special configurations) as special promotions during their summer "Power Hour" specials.
Their lack of marketing knowledge got me a reliable and fast PowerComputing machine with 64 megabytes of RAM last July, for a not bad price.
(And just like all tech purchases, "If I could only have waited two more months...") |
