amd vs intel for education

[Noir]

and you have to pay for OS security upgrades (I know I shouldn't post about apple, but it drives me crazy)

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I cannot begin to imagine what she could do to cause this. If you want to update the OS, slap in the OSX install disc and reinstall OSX - it will update automatically after that.

Actually I just thought of something:

I once porked my OSX installation totally by following windows logic - I checked file permissions on my drive after updating the hdd and saw I wasn't the owner on many things. If you take ownership to the files and override the original rights you'll hose the whole OSX good. If you did that then it's reinstall time.

Yeah, you say it takes 3 clicks and a few seconds?  Uh, huh, then why is it her computer has been dead for almost a week now?  It it was Windows, I would have wiped the drive and re-installed the OS and had her running in an hour, or so.

I was talking about windows in a virtual host there Roy. You can have her OSX sparkly shiney by inserting the OSX install DVD and restarting the computer holding c key at startup. Optionally you can hold the option key at startup at which time you can choose to boot from a recovery partition (necessary on some newer macs). If she has OSX Lion, then http://www.apple.com/macosx/recovery/ helps

No one at Apple has been any help, at all.  And see, that is where the biggest issue lies with Apple products.  They are fine, until they are not fine, then you are pretty much screwed unless you pay Apple a ton of money for support.  If that perception is incorrect, then Apple needs to work on it.

I would just try to reinstall the OSX first. You'll be prompted to either create an account or sign in after the basic setup. The iforgot site will guide you through if she already did one.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

and you have to pay for OS security upgrades (I know I shouldn't post about apple, but it drives me crazy)

Really? I receive updates for free monthly and new OS versions are 29 bucks versus 129 bucks for windows.

[olds442]

let me say this. apple is like a mini cooper. windows is like a corvett. linux is like a truck, it dose what you want it too do.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

let me say this. apple is like a mini cooper. windows is like a corvett. linux is like a truck, it dose what you want it too do.

MMmmmkay 

[Denniss]

let me say this. apple is like a mini cooper. windows is like a corvett. linux is like a truck, it dose what you want it too do.

I'd say Windoze is the truck - overloaded and slow but does it's job. Linux is a similar truck but with headroom for speed upgrades and tuning.

[Skuzzy]

Wife solved her problem.  After being down for over a week she took it back to her IT folks and told them where to shove it and told them if they ever tried to foist anything like that on her again she would make life a living hell for them.

Apparently they got a new IT person from out of school who is big on all things Apple, yet he was pretty much confused as to what happened with her computer and was not in any big hurry to fix it.

They ordered a Dell laptop for her.  She should be back to work in a couple of days.

I am thinking that new IT person is not going to be around very long.  In an industry where a few minutes of downtime can costs tens of thousands of dollars, being down over a week is just insane.

[Pigslilspaz]

http://cdn.thenextweb.com/files/2010/09/mac01.jpg

Always a fun read.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Wife solved her problem.  After being down for over a week she took it back to her IT folks and told them where to shove it and told them if they ever tried to foist anything like that on her again she would make life a living hell for them.

Apparently they got a new IT person from out of school who is big on all things Apple, yet he was pretty much confused as to what happened with her computer and was not in any big hurry to fix it.

They ordered a Dell laptop for her.  She should be back to work in a couple of days.

I am thinking that new IT person is not going to be around very long.  In an industry where a few minutes of downtime can costs tens of thousands of dollars, being down over a week is just insane.

Apparently you got a lemon. We haven't had a single problem with the dozen macs we have at the office. I'm 99% sure it was a hardware problem - if it was anything software related a simple reinstall would have reset the situation.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

(Image removed from quote.)
http://cdn.thenextweb.com/files/2010/09/mac01.jpg

Always a fun read.

Heh if you can't afford a Ferrari you obviously don't buy one.

[guncrasher]

Heh if you can't afford a Ferrari you obviously don't buy one.

I think the right quote would be "if you can't afford a car that looks like a ferrari but isnt dont buy one"    .


semp

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I think the right quote would be "if you can't afford a car that looks like a ferrari but isnt dont buy one"    .


semp

And the correct answer would be "if you don't know what you're talking about you should be silent"

[guncrasher]

And the correct answer would be "if you don't know what you're talking about you should be silent"

I may not know anything except about how best to spend my money  .


semp

[2bighorn]

And the correct answer would be "if you don't know what you're talking about you should be silent"

 

People in the know would build their own "Ferrari" ie Hackintosh and save big time on AppleSnob tax...

[MrRiplEy[H]]

People in the know would build their own "Ferrari" ie Hackintosh and save big time on AppleSnob tax...

That would be like tuning a volkswagen beetle with a fiber glass chassis kit and calling it a Ferrari

OSX works so well because Apple controls the hardware. When you start to blend in general off the shelf hardware nobody guarantees it will work anymore.

I don't know what was the problem in Skuzzys case but whatever it was it's highly unusual. I don't understand why nobody tried reinstalling the OS for example when the stability problem started.