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To: soup who wrote (15864)	7/21/1998 12:07:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (2) of 213177

<<MOT to settle on NT?>> I think we and especially stockholdters of MOT should note their dissatisfaction. It's as if Motorola were conceding that their own products are failures. They might as well forget about rolling out NT workstations and just close thier doors and call it quits in the chip business. But I do argue this point from that MacInTouch thread: <<a) A new PowerMac takes from 45 minutes to 2 hours to fully configure with the standard suite of engineering and office applications. A Pentium workstation takes from 4 hours to 2 days to set up with a similar configuration.>> The above works if you do a standard manual install of the software and all its component. Lately, I've been rolling out NT workstations using Ghost software which essentially clones machines on a massive scale and very quickly too. Where it can take over an hour to install NT itself traditionally from the installer CD or disks. Ghost can install NT, a full suite of Office software AND configurations and customizations to network, remote access and desktop settings in as little as ten minutes!!! All that needs to be done in the end is to redefine the machine name and computer ID. Then, additional upgrades in the future can be performed remotely with SMS or WinInstall. Ladies and gents I've seen this implemented in the past four months. I've helped rollout 500 Win95 machines in about 1 month with six people. As I was doing this, I said to myself, "Does the Mac have software like this?" Traditionally, to speed and automate the process on the Mac, I copy a configured Mac Hard drive complete with Office software and configs to a CD. The process to roll out a new machine still takes nearly an hour to do vs. 15 minutes on Ghost. The closest to that kind of replication speed that I can get on a Mac is using drive replication hardware. Connect a source hard drive to the replicator and the destination drive to the other port. Takes about ten minutes for 1 gig drive. Ghost did a 4 gig drive in 15 minutes (1 gig used for software). Clearly, someone needs to develop this for the Mac. -Bill_H

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