Wow this is an interesting thread. It seems that some of you have a
different IT philosophy in your company than ours. In our company, it is
not IT's job to decide what tools users need to do their jobs. It is
their job to implement and support it, or get the tools and skills
needed to do so. It is also not the end users' job to determine what
equipment they will just buy or show up with. It is a coordination
between management and other team members.
It seems that some have some sort of totalitarian last word control over
what products are used to make their company function (most likely self
delusional), and others are forced to either support what a user brings
from home are tell them to get out. This is the perception anyway.
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Along the lines of insinuated Mac resiliency - its utter
nonsense. I
have been supporting them for years, and they can have the same
glitchy behavior that apps do on Windows. Crash an app enough
times,
and oh guess what - you need to reinstall it because it became
corrupted.
Of course, when looking in the Apple KB, they simply and briefly
recommend that you reformat and start fresh. A good suggestion
ultimately. If more PC owners did that, they would probably
have less
over-all problems too. They tend to provide fewer details that
may
confuse the user into trying other things. Apple is very good
at the
KISS concept. Which I think ultimately empowers their users to
having
a better running system more often.
The thing that really cracks me up is that there is no defrag.
The
recommendation is to either copy all files off and then back
onto your
system - reformat and reinstall all your apps. But then all the
zealots say that: no, Macs don't need to be defrag'd! Umm ya,
k!
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We support Mac's here, a lot of the CAD/CAM is done on MAC's and web
design is especially done on the MACs. NO real issue with them in a
Win2k3 domain except for the need for file/print services for macintosh
for them to store there files, other than that. Have at it, if that is
what they need to accomplish there work, then IT needs to make it work
for them.
Z
Edward E. Ziots
Network Engineer
Lifespan Organization
MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA
Phone: 401-639-3505
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