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. 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. Delays hit education hardestĪs 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. I’ll focus first on how the supply chain problems have affected the education market, because that’s who was the most inconvenienced. But the on-going backlog has had an outsized impact on education and enterprise customers. Many of the delay reports have come from annoyed consumers. (Higher-end iMacs are available right away, however.) iMac, if ordered now, won't be in hand for "nine to 10 weeks," according to Apple's online store. If you order now, you'll have to wait until at least July 28, and maybe well into August, before the new hardware arrives. ![]() MacBook Pro laptops, which have been on sale since last fall, are weeks out from delivery. How bad is the problem? Apple's 14- and 16-in. But you can’t upgrade many Macs after you buy them, so – for some – this problem is not trivial. Granted, many of these delays involve systems with added memory or storage. For some configurations, customers were told they would have to wait until August to get their new machines. ![]() ![]() In the run up to last week's Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), a concerning problem hit people trying to order new Macs.
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