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space captain wrote on Oct 31, 2011, 11:40:
macbooks and imacs have seamless networking.. way better than windows
dunno what yer smokin over there
im definitely not an apple fanboy, altho i am ACMT
When apple products work, they "just work". When they don't work, it's a f*cking nightmare because they were designed by engineers who believe that they will always "just work" and thus don't give users the tools to troubleshoot the problem.
We have a small, creeping mac influence in our company. There's a diehard mac fan who insists we should switch the entire company over immediately- when I ask him what we'll run our accounting software on since that's windows-only, what we'll run our scalehouse software on- that's windows only, and how we'll migrate the data from windows to mac in a timely and cost-effective manner he just looks and me and says smugly "well I don't know but I'm sure it'll all just work." Like Macs spawn relevant software when you turn them on.
My policy is "You can use a mac, but I won't support it. At all. If you want me to support it, I need a Mac to get up to speed on and to muck with." To date nobody's ever taken me up on that. iPhones are an exception because 1. they use activesync, which I know how to set up, and 2. they bought me one to get up to speed on.
But yeah, generally I discourage macs because I can't adequately support them, and I don't want to hear from the mac-hole that I'm somehow an idiot or incompetent at my job because I don't divine how to fix a mac when it doesn't "just work" (which has actually happened three times now. The third time I actually quit my job for about 20 minutes until they talked me into coming back).
Oh, and the "Genius" bar at the apple shops is anything but. Owner bought a macbook like six months ago and wanted to access exchange via HTTP: Something that I've pushed most windows laptops to and it works great. Apple's yahoos couldn't get it done even after I gave them the relevant information. Which is silly, because you'd think "I want to connect to exchange" would be a common enough request. They then suggested that the owner spend another few thousand dollars or so and get a server that could entirely replace our mail server and then the lone macbook would connect just fine.
Thankfully the owner has a short temper. He stormed out, called me up, bitched for a few minutes, and an hour of research later his email was merrily syncing up, his calendar and contacts were up to date, and he was happy as a clam.
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Oct 31, 10:48 |
Employee Macs blocked more |
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Oct 31, 11:17 |
Re: Employee Macs blocked more |
xXBatmanXx |
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Oct 31, 12:48 |
Re: Employee Macs blocked more |
Raven |
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Oct 31, 13:14 |
Re: Employee Macs blocked more |
xXBatmanXx |
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Oct 31, 11:40 |
Re: Morning Safety Dance |
space captain |
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Oct 31, 15:52 |
Re: Morning Safety Dance |
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Oct 31, 16:23 |
Re: Morning Safety Dance |
space captain |
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Oct 31, 17:51 |
Re: Morning Safety Dance |
Kitkoan |
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Oct 31, 19:46 |
Re: Morning Safety Dance |
space captain |
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Oct 31, 20:15 |
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Kitkoan |
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