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From: JF Mezei on 8 Jan 2010 01:29
Alan Munn wrote:

> whether Apple does ship machines this way. I've been told by our IT
> person that he doesn't have startup disks to give to faculty with their
> laptops. This has never happened before, and I frankly don't believe
> it and am trying to get a definitive answer on whether this is a normal
> practice for Apple or whether our particular IT person is just a control
> freak.


It would likely be the later. Perhaps the units were shipped with the
disks, but customized by IT and then distrinuted without the disks.
From: Paul Sture on 8 Jan 2010 18:34
In article <1jc0gb0.m7i419ctzjy1N%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz>,
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

> Barry Margolin <barmar(a)alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > In article <0025df60$0$28499$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>,
> > JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > However, the question beckons: is there a reason why you want those
> > > systems "bare" without a pre-installed OS ?
> >
> > He never said he wanted them without a pre-installed OS. He just didn't
> > want lots of extraneous, duplicate install DVDs. If you're not going to
> > give each user their own install disks, you just need 2 or 3 sets in the
> > IT Dept.
>
> Except when the time comes to upgrade to new computers and you want to
> sell the old ones.
>
> If you don't have an official set of DVDs for every computer, most of
> them will end up being sold without reinstallation media, which is not
> good for the new owner.

A good reason for the central staff to keep hold of them. If distributed
to each system's owner, a lot will get lost or go missing.

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Paul Sture
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