NYC Dept. of Education suspends Mac orders pending wireless issue fix

April 18th, 2008 | Category: Apple Desktops

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Desktops, OS, Education, Bugs/Recalls, Apple, Leopard

Apple Insider is reporting that the New York City office of Education has put all shipments of Macs to schools on complete hold while they’re apparently waiting for Apple to fix a Wifi connectivity issue with OS X (which should be fixed with the 10.5.3 update). And Apple is apparently scrambling to get it worked out — they’ve sent an apologetic newsletter to faculty and have asked schools to try and separate any orders of computers that won’t need wireless (that will use a regular ethernet hookup) to ship

now.

Unfortunately, there’s no tip of precisely how many Macs we’re talking about here, but whether that is a substantial number of computers, and word gets out causing other organizations to delay shipments as well, Apple will feel more and more pressure to get the problem fixed ASAP. poor news for the kids who want Macs in New York City (that’s the DoE’s seal on the right, in case you didn’t recognize it), but good news for anyone else having that problem — Apple’s working hard on a fix.

Thanks, Rich!

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