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Summer Faad, a third-year law student, already has her laptop securely in stow.
Laptop shortage
affects law students
Heavy demand has left
Apple with little supply
for the University
By Sara Jarrett
Oregon Daily Emerald
Notebook computers are a req
uisite for attending the Universi
ty’s law school — each classroom
is equipped with ethemet access.
Therefore, everyone should be
hooked into the system.
But does it do any good if the
computer distributors are unable
to keep up with the demand?
Students at the School of Law
have a choice between the “IBM
Think Pad 390 and the Apple
Power Book G3/333,” Michael Re
bar, manager of technology at the
University book store said, de
pending on what brand they are
most comfortable using.
Apple, however, has been un
able to supply enough to keep up
with the heavy demand.
“They’re not available through
any channel in the nation right
now,” Rebar said.
Orientation began Monday and
classes start today, though the
shipment of Apple notebooks is
n’t expected to arrive for another
three days, Rebar predicted.
This is upsetting to students
who prefer Apple computers be
cause the first week of school is
devoted to “receiving training on
how to install the software and
trouble shoot,” Rebar said. “It’s an
excellent training program.”
It’s excellent if you have the
equipment to work with, that is.
This is also the first year in
which the requisite for laptop
computers has affected every
class. In the past, the school could
n’t make such a requirement to up
perclassmen who enrolled in the
program before the policy was
made, so the requirement had sub
sequently been given to incoming
students only, Ben Greer, assistant
to the director of admissions at the
School of Law, explained. Now,
for the first time, all students must
have a portable computer.
The new building also makes
the policy easier to enforce be
cause students “can actually plug
in to every classroom,” Greer said.
Because more people are choos
ing EBMs this year than last, the back
order of Apple computers has not af
fected as many students as might be
thought. Only a few have called
Greer to voice their concerns.
“There’s just nothing we can do
about it, though,” Greer said. “We
don’t have the resources to pro
vide computers for them.
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