On Oct 23, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
I took a video project to the talent's home tonight. They brought
out an
early Intel Mac laptop.
The files were Quicktime. The small resolution overview played fine.
The
wide screen HQ files were only 1024 wide or so but played haltingly.
Yuck!
And streaming video off youtube was a joke. I do not mess with the
machines
of others. But there are 5 year old PCs that would not flinch at
this. If it
had been my machine I would have been very embarrassed. And Apple
should be
ashamed.
Huh? How in the hell should APPLE be embarrassed by something screwed
up on some random person's laptop? Are you implying that no Apple
laptop of similar vintage can run streaming video?
An Intel Mac ! And too messed up to cut the mustard. Owned by the
wife of a
highly placed professor with access to a department IT guy. And
Apple Care
too boot.
Without even SEEING the machine, I'll wager it was a first gen Macbook
with (places envelope to head a' la the great Karnak) 512 megs of RAM,
running Tiger.
And sorry to burst your bubble about 'access to a department IT guy',
but 90% of the 'department IT guy's out there are MSCE types who
couldn't give a crap about some professor's laptop.
The ONLY reason our college has Mac support at ALL is me, and it's
pure happenstance that I work where I work, because I had some
experience programming, a teensy bit of database experience and a
willingness to dive into terra incognita to port the College's
financial and alumni databases from Ingres running on a Mini-Vax to a
'modern' Sybsase 4 system running on a HP/Apollo minicomputer.
At the time we were limited to 4 macs on the network, because that's
the minimum client pack Novell sold for Macs. In fact I was once
officially reprimanded for providing Mac support.
ALL of the Mac growth on our systems has come from the ground up, from
the users, and even with my work, or official policy is 'Mac support
is ad-hoc; you're mostly on your own'. This is pretty much typical for
the vast majority of campus IT.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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