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Hey RB this is for you
As our buddy Eyezlee says "It's only gay if your in front; Everything else is just partying":26::26:
Let me stress YOUR buddy :26::rofl:
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Oh, so you know Paul :03:
Brad on a serious note the only things that I can critisize Apples on has been for us they have not been very good at repairing the lap tops. We sent one back 4 times and they still did not get it right. Wound up tossing it in the trash and buying the customer a new one. When you only make like 10 bucks on the damn thing that sucks. The back up situation I do not remember the specifics about it but it was not a straite back up, there were certain perameters that had to happen. Apple at the time (about 3 years ago) had a very hard time meeting the parameters. I wish I could remember what they were but I just can not. There were 15 designers that needed their computers backed up I do remember that. Apple also from what I have seen does not have a very good CAD program that works well with them. The windows emulation seems to work fairly well but is no more stable from what I have seen then a PC. IMO if you are going to use the windows emulation you may as well get the PC. My programming software (Crestron and so on) is also developed to run on PC's not Macs and it seems like every time I am at training there are a few guys that use Macs that have trouble with the software in one way or another. Like I said in my first post 98% of the people that use computers would be more then happy with both and you are correct most would probably be more happy with the Mac as they are more stable. Barring the issues with the software that I use all the time I would probably own one. The other way to look at PC's isthat I can look at them as more of a through away solution. When they go bad you can toss them and buy a new one. They are for sure a lot cheaper. The one I am on now is a work horse however and I have no complaints. I have used it so much that I have worn through the paint on the mouse keys, corners of the laptop were my arms rest. I have come out to find my son trying to fold it in half the wrong way, walking on it, been dropped a few times on job sites... you get the point. It is still running very well. It's all good however to each his own. :sifone::sifone:
Oh and it sounds like I want to keep Paul in front of me at all times.
Oh and it sounds like I want to keep Paul in front of me at all times.
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Jon, there are lots of things I don't like about Apple. It for the most part starts and ends with Jobs and then filters down to Cook and Schiller. Jobs, loathes the enterprise. He is on the record of calling the fortune 500 CIOs, 500 enigmas. I think he developed his disdain of them during Next. You can't plan for crap because the roadmap they give you is "released product". Steve, could really give a rats ass about the commercial market.
I really lost track of apple until 2002. At the time we were heavy into the launch of Dell Managed Service and were fighting Apple for the New York board of ed contract. It was for over 300,000 desktops. It was my job to write the competitive strategy. Which in simple terms meant why should they buy from dell versus apple. What I went into thinking was going to be simple turned out to get kind of complicated. That was when I learned that he (jobs) had continued his work on the next platform and had basically taken the Mac User Interface and laid it on top of BSD Unix and the Mach Kernal. NYBOE was at the crossroads of do we migrate to Apple's OS X or make the switch to the PC Platform. Dell won the contract and there is no telling how much money that ended up costing NYBOE. They switched just in time to witness all of the virus and worm stuff that nobody new how to counter. MS, couldn't even keep their stuff up (during that time). That was also the beginning of the end for me at Dell. I wanted us to press into the total management of they platform and they were too concerned about risk. I wanted to develop a Linux Desktop for general utility use and MD personally put the stop to that. I detonated a 20 megaton personal nuke and ended my career at Dell.:03::03::03:
About a year later I was running an infrastructure project up in milwaukee and before my eyes watched my machine get infected with which ever worm it was that brought down the North Eastern power grid. My machine was up to date and current and still got hacked. That was when I was done with windows. I tried to come up with a linux desktop so I didn't have to buy that expensive stuff that Apple had. I just couldn't make it work so I bit the bullet and bought a Mac. I've been delighted for the most part every since.
Today, I sell Human Resource Solutions and get my technology fix debating stupid crap on the internet:biggrinjester:
I really lost track of apple until 2002. At the time we were heavy into the launch of Dell Managed Service and were fighting Apple for the New York board of ed contract. It was for over 300,000 desktops. It was my job to write the competitive strategy. Which in simple terms meant why should they buy from dell versus apple. What I went into thinking was going to be simple turned out to get kind of complicated. That was when I learned that he (jobs) had continued his work on the next platform and had basically taken the Mac User Interface and laid it on top of BSD Unix and the Mach Kernal. NYBOE was at the crossroads of do we migrate to Apple's OS X or make the switch to the PC Platform. Dell won the contract and there is no telling how much money that ended up costing NYBOE. They switched just in time to witness all of the virus and worm stuff that nobody new how to counter. MS, couldn't even keep their stuff up (during that time). That was also the beginning of the end for me at Dell. I wanted us to press into the total management of they platform and they were too concerned about risk. I wanted to develop a Linux Desktop for general utility use and MD personally put the stop to that. I detonated a 20 megaton personal nuke and ended my career at Dell.:03::03::03:
About a year later I was running an infrastructure project up in milwaukee and before my eyes watched my machine get infected with which ever worm it was that brought down the North Eastern power grid. My machine was up to date and current and still got hacked. That was when I was done with windows. I tried to come up with a linux desktop so I didn't have to buy that expensive stuff that Apple had. I just couldn't make it work so I bit the bullet and bought a Mac. I've been delighted for the most part every since.
Today, I sell Human Resource Solutions and get my technology fix debating stupid crap on the internet:biggrinjester:
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