ISSUES

Please add issues that are of concern to this list:

1. There is still one Mac Book Pro not delivered. Also four hard drives and two RAID card not delivered yet. Till now, there is no further information from Julian. 2. Three Mac Book were found with touch pad problem and already sent back to Beijing for repairing. According to Joe, those could be repaired by the end of next week. 3. We already have Microsoft Office Open License for Mac, but no CD media yet. According to my phone call with Microsoft yesterday, the CD media for open license is not formally sold in China. Hopefully around two months, we could get the CD media. I already spoke with Joe that whenever he get quotation from Microsoft, please inform us immediately to order the CD media. 4. All our software need to be upgraded to run in Mac Leopard, especially Adobe Suite. Our current version is CS/2, which cannot run well in Mac Leopard and Windows Vista.(24 Jan 08)
 * We did some test on our network printers. The result is all double-sided printers cannot work in Mac Leopard. Concerning this problem, I did check with Hewlett-Packard, the answer is the printer driving program was developed for Mac Tiger, there is no information when the updated driving program will be issued. (25 Jan 08)

The following is the confirmation from Solutionkeys concerning my question on Mac Book and Mac Book Pro – 1. DVD-RW: if the standard configuration is Combo or CD-ROM, cannot be changed to DVD-RW unless after delivery, we pay extra money for changing. This means if teachers prefer DVD-RW, we cannot choose model MB061CH/B, but choose MB062CH/B instead. 2. Software: iWork is not included. The following is the software list == l Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard which include (Time Machine、Quick Look、Spaces、Spotlight、Dashboard、Mail、iChat、Safari、Address Book、QuickTime、iCal、DVD Player、Photo Booth、Xcode Developer Tools) l iLife '08 which includes ( iTunes、iPhoto、iMovie、iDVD、iWeb、GarageBand）、Microsoft Office 2004(30-day trial version)、iWork ’08 (30-day trial version)、Aperture trial version. This means if we want to have iWork, we should pay for extra fee. (27 Nov 07)
 * My suggestion is that we collect software requirement from teachers, test in the computer and create image. By the end of May, we could recollect those computers from teacher. I consult the expert while taking training in Shanghai. According to him, to re-imaging 60 Mac computers for dual system, it will cost three people two days.
 * Also, please consider one thing – do we really want to setup internal Podcast server? Do we want our students to access Podcast server at home? During the training I spoke with person from international schools in Shanghai and Guang Zhou, they all mentioned the Podcast server will be helpful for education. Of course, this function is resource consumption. I heard WAB use two Mac server to do cluster for Podcast. At the moment, we can only do some Podcast test.
 * Configuration:

Concerning RAID function of Mac server, I will talk with Apple engineer through phone tomorrow.