Hi Rod, I strongly doubt that a Non Disclosure Agreement has anything to do with this. I've signed a few from apple and they never give out information about non released products except to those who definately need it. I don't think a customer would qualify as needing to know new information like this.
It sounds like you've got a few people who either think it's better to make everyone stick to one thing (acer) or that someone is dragging their feet. If they are waiting on the itel ibook they may be waiting for awhile as apple hasn't announced it's release. I suspect Apple won't release the ibook for awhile because of issues invoving the redesigning of ibook hardware and not making it so close to the powerbook that it's essentially the same machine. But then again, Apple is a tough company to predict. Take it easy, Mike --- Rod Blitvich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi WAMUGers > The WA Dept of Education and Training run a > Notebooks For Teachers program > whereby for a small cost teachers can sign up for a > 3 year laptop lease. > When the program began there was no mac option. > After Union involvement, a Statewide Grievance > against the employer and a > monumental battle, finally iBooks were included. > The first iBook people's 3 yr lease expired last > November. > > Guess what - DET are yet to finalise a replacement > Apple lease contract > despite allegedly working on it since April last > year. So these poor old > iBook users are hanging on to 4 year old iBooks > whilst their ACER using > colleagues have brand new ACERs. > > There are hints of Non Disclosure Agreements and > people are unable to > explain why a new Lease has not been finalised. > The cynic in some people sees this as another > conspiracy, just like 4 years > ago. > > I was wondering - When are the Intel iBooks due out > and do you think this is > the possible holdup??? > Probably a real longshot here as a new model would > have to be "evaluated" by > DET and so at this stage would be months and months > away from being ready to > put on the NFT Contract. > > Rod > -- > Rod BLITVICH Head of Learning Technologies > Balcatta Senior High School > Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003 > Amy and Sam's Dad > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0409 681 256 > http://blittosblog.blogspot.com/ > http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > They can't fire me... Slaves have to be sold! > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - > <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
