Justin and all,
I might suggest:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
Also, you can lead a horse to watter, but you cannot have them
drink. In order to justify a formal request for a Mac, you have to
use the same logic you'd use for any other request. The problem you
will run into with rehab and employers though is that there is a
strong sense whether real or imagined that the Mac will not play
nicely with windows networks so is dismiissed since it is not
windows. Looking at the myriad of employment adds out there, many of
them require windows even if it is not explicit. Rehab is in the
business of providing folk with support leading to employment and
till they *know* otherwise, they will move in the windows direction.
This is not an adversarial situation although that statement about
giving you a hard time was perhaps a bit off the mark. I think we
are at least a year away from the time when all but the most
progressive rehab agencies will be providing Macs under most
circumstances. I suspect we are bit further out on a lot of
deployment. As long as emplloyers and other entities continue to be
windows shops, rehab will be in their camp. This is as it should
be. Now, that does not stop you from getting a mac of your own and
helping that cause along.
Take care.
--
Jonnie Apple Seed
With his:
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
On Dec 6, 2005, at 8:30 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
Hi guys
my department of rehab counsilr, from whom I hope to get my mac for
college, said the following.
"I am going to give you a hard time, though, if you want to get a
Mac. It does not have the operating system that is compatible with
the majority of the
business world applications."
Could anyone offer me some ammo for this debate? Thanks
Justin Harford
Espiring university student
