Victor Langelo wrote:
| OK. There's exactly one machine with a CD Rom drive. The least expensive
| iBook. I doesn't exactly see how this is going to slow the academic
| market from getting Tiger. At least not any more that the usual glacial
| pace. I'm sure some where at every institution there's an external drive
| of some sort that can be used to perform an upgrade. The installer may
| even work off a server.
I wonder whether you understand just how poor the average school system is.
That low-end model is available to academic customers because they need it
and buy it. It's not at all unlikely that *every* purchase at a school would
be the DVD-less model. The same cash starvation would make it likely that
there *wouldn't* be "an external drive of some sort" just lying around,
because that drive wouldn't be purchased unless someone justified the cost
and then scrounged the money for it from somewhere. Until a couple of days
ago, most schools probably had no real need for a DVD drive at all, making
it rather hard to justify spending money on one.
Glen Fisher
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