noonespecial
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Arrghh.. BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES!!! THREE !! HOW WILL I COPE!!!!
Windows has.... one or two more...
anyway.. knowing Macs n Pcs affords me a damn good lifestyle, so, I'm not going to knock it am I!
Arrghh.. BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES!!! THREE !! HOW WILL I COPE!!!!
Windows has.... one or two more...
anyway.. knowing Macs n Pcs affords me a damn good lifestyle, so, I'm not going to knock it am I!
crockers
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Knew as soon as MAC raised his head SPINAL would appear with his views...lol...I think I raised the Q of MAC V Microsoft earlier last year..
Spinal
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Mac gives me daily headaches - all my colleagues are die-hard macolytes... there is nothing more I like than a good mac-bash
Guilty, as charged...
Today it was getting perian to stop trying to update then crashing... oh, that and several hours spent trying to diagnose why the Mac Pro G5's are being moody. Tomorrow I'm going to reinstall the operating system from scratch off discs (not off the clone! Such a waste of time!) and see if it makes a difference...
I'm dreading calling Apple to tell them that we have 22 systems whos only symptom is behaving slowly (5-15 minutes to log-in slowly...). If these have these symptoms, I wonder what will happen to the others...
Michele
I've had a couple of VAIOs, they both fell apart in my hands, hinges were pretty useless.
I use a Dell D610 for work. It's never skipped a beat in the 18months i've had it, but it has all the charisma of that gunk you find under the fridge.
At home, and what i'm typing on now, i use a...MacBookPro 15", which is utterly marvellous and i wont have a bad word said against it. It.just.works and thats exactly what I need after coming from working with broken software all day long.
I use a Dell D610 for work. It's never skipped a beat in the 18months i've had it, but it has all the charisma of that gunk you find under the fridge.
At home, and what i'm typing on now, i use a...MacBookPro 15", which is utterly marvellous and i wont have a bad word said against it. It.just.works and thats exactly what I need after coming from working with broken software all day long.
ibrar
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Spinal,are you saying.....to go out and buy a Mac?
I will cos it certainly sounds like Merc
I will cos it certainly sounds like Merc
noonespecial
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If you have Pro support from Apple they are great.. 5-15 to log in is a joke, someone can't do their job. simple as that.
even on a mixed AD / OD network our eMacs boot from cold and desktop in no time..
Spinal
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Tell me about it... We've had Apple sent 2 different technicians several times, and according to them "its normal" and there is "nothing out of the ordinary" - strange that in the second lab which has an identical setup, (but was bought 6 months later) the same use can log-in in under a minute.
All times are not counting boot time...
At first I thought it was a switch/cabling issue - but swapping the machines made no difference; the slow machines stayed slow...
I'll be happy when this year is over, we are scrapping any non-intel machine... We have some old iMac indigos that have been hiding in rooms for years, all the way to 44 Mac-Pro G5s that will get recycled...
I'm a bit reluctant to let our eMacs go - they've all gotten brand new motherboards from Apple a capacitor blew on them... That said, they are old 1.25Ghz machines; most of them 3-6 years old now...
Michele
P.S. We're an Apple affiliated educational institute... all hardware is "handled" directly by someone they appoint...
noonespecial
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PM me and I'll put you in touch with the people Apple use. They guy who works there is a friend of mine and if he can't fix it..... then no one can!
noonespecial
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oh and I'm quite sure your slow boot will be down to DNS / AD (if you have it) or OD or a mix off all of em!
mb240
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I have a Vaio laptop, A417 series around 2.5 years old.
- battery hasn't worked in a year - it must be plugged in permanently to work, always at 0% charging as teh connectors are screwed
- screen has totally failed, and I need to use the VGA out to use it (on my TV at th moment)
- several keys have fallen off since I've bought it.
It is a piece of utter junk, but because it keeps trudging along, I'm was too lazy to change (and I didn't have to pay for it), but since one of the USB ports stopped working I think the time has come. It failed to boot at all a few weeks ago and I thought it had finally given in, but after a few minutes it started up.
I think Battlefield 2 being played for 20 hours a day in shifts probably did it TBH. Wouldn't buy another similar Vaio.
- battery hasn't worked in a year - it must be plugged in permanently to work, always at 0% charging as teh connectors are screwed
- screen has totally failed, and I need to use the VGA out to use it (on my TV at th moment)
- several keys have fallen off since I've bought it.
It is a piece of utter junk, but because it keeps trudging along, I'm was too lazy to change (and I didn't have to pay for it), but since one of the USB ports stopped working I think the time has come. It failed to boot at all a few weeks ago and I thought it had finally given in, but after a few minutes it started up.
I think Battlefield 2 being played for 20 hours a day in shifts probably did it TBH. Wouldn't buy another similar Vaio.
grober
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Dell off the shelf.
I see both TESCO and PC World are now selling Dell off the shelf. Perhaps worth a look?
I see both TESCO and PC World are now selling Dell off the shelf. Perhaps worth a look?
