Schools and government agencies often get discounts when they shop with certain vendors, and some of these groups are required to use specific vendors whenever they do technology procurement. This might mean, too, that you have to work with a vendor you have no previous relationship with or one that doesn’t offer the discount you need. Some of Apple’s channel resellers can add your purchases to Apple School Manager and Apple Business Manager, but it can be challenging to figure out which resellers can do it. Most enterprise and education customers, however, tend to order directly from Apple because that ensures they will easily be able to add their new Macs to Apple School Manager or Apple Business Manager and enable zero-touch deployments.
Some Apple sales partners, including Amazon, have Macs available without long delays. It’s also important to note that shoppers are not experiencing these delays through many of Apple’s resellers.
MAC BEATS UPDATER UPDATE
I have never done a device lifecycle update during that short break between semesters but, in my days in higher ed, I did manage a complete system refresh across several Mac-specific labs. While it’s not ideal to attempt major lifecycle management tasks during that short break it is, at least, possible. IT teams often use that break to manage big projects such as upgrading technologies, archiving student work, and offering training to faculty and staff. The winter break between semesters is often several weeks long. Schools don’t have other breaks of much longer than a week in any year - and a week is not a realistic timeframe for doing lifecycle management or upgrades.Ĭolleges and universities, theoretically, could weather these delays a bit better.
MAC BEATS UPDATER FULL
If these delays mean a school can’t buy enough Macs to update its fleet this summer, that school won’t have another opportunity for a full year. For this reason, the device lifecycle in schools is almost completely built around summer break.
As anyone who’s worked in education – either K-12 or higher ed – knows, summer break is the only opportunity in the year to replace, refresh, or retire your fleet of computers and tablets.
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