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Re: MacBook Pro's at JPL

JEDIDIAH
SubjectRe: MacBook Pro's at JPL
FromJEDIDIAH
Date08/07/2012 16:12 (08/07/2012 09:12)
Message-ID<slrnk228i7.i97.jedi@nomad.mishnet>
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Newsgroupscomp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy
FollowsJustin

On 2012-08-07, Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu>wrote:

Justin
On 8/6/12 7:40 AM, Nobody wrote:

Nobody
On 8/6/2012 2:17 AM, ed wrote:

On Sunday, August 5, 2012 11:48:11 PM UTC-7, Mike wrote:

Quite a few around the control room at JPL.

Oh wait, the trolls say Macs are only for graphics!

nasa is generally pretty mac heavy. last i was at jpl (around march iirc), there were a whole lot of macbook airs in the meeting.

It must be fine to work out those budget cuts and layoffs on a bunch of MacBook Air laptops...

Justin
They saved money using the Macs, rather than hire 25 IT guys who never

It doesn't take that many people to deal with even WinDOS desktops.

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