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onehandle

(51,122 posts) Thu May 28, 2015, 03:59 PM May 2015

IBM gives workers choice between Macs or PCs, plans to deploy 50,000 Apple MacBooks

This is amazing, considering Apple and IBM's history as rivals.
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Each machine will come preloaded with all necessary software, such as VPN and security tools, the company said. The memo remarked that IBM already has about 15,000 active Macs deployed through its bring-your-own-device program, but aims to deploy 50,000 MacBooks by the end of 2015.

That number will allegedly make IBM the world's biggest Mac-supporting company. IBM adds that it plans to share lessons learned from the deployment with Apple, which is helping with the task.

The new policy was first pointed out by several IBM workers on Twitter.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/05/28/ibm-gives-workers-choice-between-macs-or-pcs-plans-to-deploy-50000-apple-macbooks

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IBM gives workers choice between Macs or PCs, plans to deploy 50,000 Apple MacBooks (Original Post) onehandle May 2015 OP

Kind of strange coming from the inventor of the PC. Does IBM even make them any more? arcane1 May 2015 #1

that part of the business was sold off to a Chinese company several years ago DrDan May 2015 #2

A MacBook running Linux woud be fine with me... hunter May 2015 #3

arcane1

(38,613 posts)

1. Kind of strange coming from the inventor of the PC. Does IBM even make them any more?

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2015, 04:03 PM

May 2015

DrDan

(20,411 posts)

2. that part of the business was sold off to a Chinese company several years ago

Reply to arcane1 (Reply #1)

Thu May 28, 2015, 04:07 PM

May 2015

(I am an IBM-retiree)

hunter

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3. A MacBook running Linux woud be fine with me...

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu May 28, 2015, 04:31 PM

May 2015

... but I don't work for IBM.

Someday maybe I'll find a beat-up and repairable MacBook and build a computer I like. But for now my laptop is a beat-up old Dell, some of it held together with hot glue and duct tape, the hard drive replaced with a flash drive, maybe thirty dollars cash and recycled trash.

The "Desktop" I'm posting this from is a similar machine.

Linux and other Open Source software and mildly hacked hardware makes that possible.

I feel much too restricted by Apple, Microsoft, or Android operating systems.

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