I use my PB in 3 locations dial-up, Airport w/Cable and Airport w/ISDN all locations work well. The New Airport Admin Utility in 10.1 works well. One GREAT thing PowerBook users receive with 10.1 is the "screen brightness and volume controls" work from the keyboard!! like there suppose to.
-- Roger Turpin VP [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ChooChooMac Chattanooga Macintosh Users Group http://www.thinkdifferent.org > From: "jud spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:12:01 -0700 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: OS 10.1 > > A couple of people at work have pointed out how well the Airport support > works. I think the new location settings in 10.1 work well if you use an > Airport. If you don't....well. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Sell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Entourage mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 7:20 AM > Subject: Re: OS 10.1 > > >> Okay, I know there is no "location manager" in OS X... But I find the >> "location" setting in the apple menu to be completely sufficient and about >> 90% the same. >> >> Maybe what many don't realize is that each location can have multiple >> "ports" defined in the Network preferences. For example, for my "Work" >> location I have the AirPort and Ethernet setup and active. That way no >> matter how I connect, it just figures it out. If I plug in to the wall it >> uses that, if not, it uses the airport -- I don't have to do a thing. >> >> For home, I have Airport, Ethernet, and dialup. Again, all of these are >> active and it just figures out which way you're connected automatically. >> The only thing is, that for dialup, I open he internet connect app and > click >> "connect". >> >> All of this is no more work than it was under OS 9. The only thing it >> doesn't do is set things like timezone and default printer. And as Paul > has >> shown, an applescript solves the SMTP problem in Entourage (which existed > un >> OS 9 anyway). >> >> -Steve >> >> On 10/1/01 10:08 AM, "Alan R. Houtzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I don't want to resort to name-calling, but essentially, I agree. > Laptop >>> users have apparently been put on the back burner in X development. The >>> Energy Saver has no separate settings for battery power, power drains >>> rapidly compared to 9.x, and the lack of a real location manager makes > the >>> PowerBook difficult to use unless the only way you ever connect is to > the >>> internet by phone. >>> >>> X 10.1 is very tempting to use, and has much usability (once you figure > out >>> how to substitute for the lack of tabbed folders and other eliminated >>> conveniences), but I am now typing in MacOS 9.2.1 . (sigh) >>> >>> I hope Apple rapidly adds features by looking at what is missing, > comapred >>> to 9.x >>> >>> >>> >>> On 10/1/01 1:05 AM, "Harry (lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> on 9/30/01 3:23 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> >>>>> Apple have dropped Location Manager from OS X: >>>> >>>> Idiots! >>>> >>>>> it doesn't work in OS X native or in Classic. >>>> >>>> Morons! >>>> >>>>> There is a very primitive "Location" aspect to the Network System >>>>> Pref, but System Prefs are still not scriptable in OS 10.1, and may > never >>>>> be. >>>> >>>> Complete idiots - I'm referring in the above, and the following > expletives >>>> to the morons from the development team that made this decisions. > Location >>>> manager is the single most important utility for any professional with > a >>>> laptop, and the lack of support shows, once again, Apple's lack of user >>>> testing. >>>> >>>> Idiots! As impressed as I am currently with 10.1, if there won't be any >>>> location manager support (which really is just a simple and primitive >>>> support for scriptable system preferences, as it was elegantly > implemneted >>>> under OS 9), I'll have to diss the OS for it. >>>> >>>> Damn! What are they thinking? Here's hoping that as the NeXT influence >>>> fades, such essential tools will resurface, or be reintroduced by third >>>> parties. >>>> >>>> Harry >>>> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> http://www.zinkdifferent.com >>>> >>>> "Virtue does not come from money, but rather from virtue comes money, >>>> and all things good to man" -Socrates >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To search the archives: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To search the archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
