Does Apple ever ship machines w/o startup disks?
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From: Alan Munn on 29 Dec 2009 15:57 Hi, this is a question for anyone who has experience with large volume corporate and/or educational purchases. Does Apple have a program whereby machines are ever shipped without their original install DVDs? I've been told that this is the case, but I have never heard of such a program in all my years of buying Macs at major US universities. If anyone can point me to information about such a program I'd appreciate it. Of course it's hard to prove a negative, but if you're in a position to know if such a program doesn't exist, that would be great. Comments about whether such a program would make sense etc. (IMO it wouldn't) are not relevant to the conversation. Thanks Alan
From: JF Mezei on 29 Dec 2009 17:29 Alan Munn wrote: > Hi, this is a question for anyone who has experience with large volume > corporate and/or educational purchases. > > Does Apple have a program whereby machines are ever shipped without > their original install DVDs? If you are large enough to talk to Apple corporate sales, I suspect that they would consider such a request. They are already geared to handle custom orders, so skipping the disk imaging and not including the DVD would be within the realm of the possible.
From: Alan Munn on 29 Dec 2009 18:12 In article <01819192$0$10151$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > Alan Munn wrote: > > Hi, this is a question for anyone who has experience with large volume > > corporate and/or educational purchases. > > > > Does Apple have a program whereby machines are ever shipped without > > their original install DVDs? > > If you are large enough to talk to Apple corporate sales, I suspect > that they would consider such a request. They are already geared to > handle custom orders, so skipping the disk imaging and not including the > DVD would be within the realm of the possible. Thanks. I'm sure it's in the realm of the possible. I'm trying to find out if it's in the realm of the actual. Alan
From: Alan Munn on 6 Jan 2010 20:00 In article <michelle-F9A93D.16204729122009(a)nothing.attdns.com>, Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article <amunn-88513E.18120129122009(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Alan Munn <amunn(a)msu.edu> wrote: > > > > If you are large enough to talk to Apple corporate sales, I suspect > > > that they would consider such a request. They are already geared to > > > handle custom orders, so skipping the disk imaging and not including > > > the DVD would be within the realm of the possible. > > > > Thanks. I'm sure it's in the realm of the possible. I'm trying to find > > out if it's in the realm of the actual. > > The best way to find out is to contact Apple directly. Yes, that was in the works, but I thought I'd ask the wisdom of the newsgroup to see if anyone knew. As it turns out, Apple never ship machines without original restore disks, no matter how large the customer. Alan
From: Nitefall on 6 Jan 2010 21:48
On 2010-01-06 17:00:10 -0800, Alan Munn said: > In article <michelle-F9A93D.16204729122009(a)nothing.attdns.com>, > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > >> In article <amunn-88513E.18120129122009(a)news.eternal-september.org>, >> Alan Munn <amunn(a)msu.edu> wrote: >> >>>> If you are large enough to talk to Apple corporate sales, I suspect >>>> that they would consider such a request. They are already geared to >>>> handle custom orders, so skipping the disk imaging and not including >>>> the DVD would be within the realm of the possible. >>> >>> Thanks. I'm sure it's in the realm of the possible. I'm trying to find >>> out if it's in the realm of the actual. >> >> The best way to find out is to contact Apple directly. > > Yes, that was in the works, but I thought I'd ask the wisdom of the > newsgroup to see if anyone knew. > > As it turns out, Apple never ship machines without original restore > disks, no matter how large the customer. > > Alan We purchase MacBooks in bulk from Apple. We get cases of 5 machines. In the case is _one_ set of documentation, and one set of boot/restore media. |