Apple computers

[MossRoad]

As I posted back in post #10....

"About MacStadium

MacStadium is the leading provider of enterprise-class Apple Mac infrastructure providing scalable, reliable, and secure private clouds and dedicated servers for workloads that require macOS."

 

[drssg]

Yep... and I can go one better... Have the original boxes and packing when bought new and a Apple 40 cps daisy wheel printer and a box of decals apple sent me... Working minimum wage a 3000 purchase was 3x more than I paid for my car!

Amazing. I'll estimate that $3000 equates to about $10,000 in today's money. Things sure have changed.

 

[Ortimber]

On an off topic question, if you work in an IT department, do you write your own software / code, or do you buy canned programs and have to have a 3rd party re write programs if you see changes need to be made in the software?

My company is an aerospace machine shop, so we write programs to control our machine tools, but do not write any software that is used by our computers. If we need to alter default CNC parameters/logic, it’s outsourced to a 3rd party.

 

[Sigarms]

What a silly question..... you outsource everything so you have no employees! :laughing:

The irony is if you have people (employees) that know what they are doing on how to write your own software programs, you don't have to outsourse anything.

I've found from my own work experience that a IT person is more along the lines of a "network adminstrator" that can't do jack crap if a program has to be changed and what the IT person does is make certain that everything is plugged in on your side. You want "real work" done, you have to re write the software which the company (who pays the 3rd party software company) IT employee has no clue on what to do.

DO NOT ever call your IT department a "Network administrator" because they don't know how to write code LOL.

 

[jaydee325]

If you like Mac's, they are the best.

If you like Windows, then those computers are the best.

There, did that clear things up?:laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

The irony is if you have people (employees) that know what they are doing on how to write your own software programs, you don't have to outsourse anything.

I've found from my own work experience that a IT person is more along the lines of a "network adminstrator" that can't do jack crap if a program has to be changed and what the IT person does is make certain that everything is plugged in on your side. You want "real work" done, you have to re write the software which the company (who pays the 3rd party software company) IT employee has no clue on what to do.

DO NOT ever call your IT department a "Network administrator" because they don't know how to write code LOL.

There's two different schools of thought about what I.T. should be.

School 1 provides working hardware and software and support for how to use both, resolve issues, develop solutions, work with the users, etc...

School 2 provides working hardware and software. The end. It's up to the users to figure out how to actually use it.

I was in school 1 for a long, long time. Then we were forced by corporate to follow school 2 rules. It was the time when I.T., basically a cost center, because they don't generate any income, switched to a revenue center, because corporate I.T. charges child companies for their services. So child companies have to budget I.T. expenses that go back to corporate I.T.

It's about the time I.T. changed from being helpful saviors to despised weasels. :laughing:

I saw my time coming to an end and side-stepped a reduction in force by taking a position in maintenance. Got back to working with my hands. :thumbsup:

 

[Sigarms]

There's two different schools of thought about what I.T. should be.

If you're in the IT department, IMO you write the code for the software your company uses to function as a business.

The reality is most "IT departments" do nothing but plug and play with eletronic devices, don't write code or software for the company who employes them, and at best act as an intermediary to the actual software people per worse case scenario and get charged an arm and a leg to make the most basic changes because it's a canned software that is bought.

I've had way too may "we can't change that on the invoice because we didn't write the program and it's too expesnive to change it" so deal with it people who graduated with people who can't even write code but have a fancy title of "department head of the IT department" LOL.

I'm spoiled, my wife writes code and she does very well for herself because SHE can make the changes or add things that people want per the computer system they want.

 

[RalphVa]

People tell me that Apple computers are really wonderful and that I should ditch my Dell with Internet Explorer and Windows 10. I'm pretty computer savvy.
What do people with Apples think?

I recently inherited an iPad from having used it in a Yoga class. It's my 2nd use of Mac stuff in the last 15 years. Mac stuff is irritating in that I often find myself not knowing how to do something very simple. Can usually Google it online and find out what to do.

The more "apps" I add, the longer it takes the iPad to boot up, and it just sits there not telling you a thing until the startup screens actually pop up. At least Win10 usually gives you that little circle going around to show it's doing something.

The applications are nicely integrated, and then they're not. They're just a set of keyboard movements that are standard across Win10 that seem a tad different from "app" to "app" on the iPad. On Facebook or Twitter, for instance on the iPad, I find myself accidently bumping the screen and going somewhere that I don't want, and I rarely seem to get back to where I was.

Nice to not need security software but bad in that all the "apps" have to come from the AppStore. No other source, it seems.

Ralph

 

[Maxify55]

2 yrs ago, I bought an iMac with a 27" monitor
The mother board fried in the first 30 days.
Of course, they fixed it under warranty but
after 2 yrs of extra slow glitchy operation I gave it to our church for the deduction.
What a boat anchor?
We love our iPhones & get new ones every 2 yrs like clockwork.
Love our iPads, as well, but iMacs?
People either love 'em or hate 'em.
You don't find out until you own it and they're very very pricey.
Save the extra money they want to feed the Cupertino Beast and stay Windows with the rest of the world.
You'll always have the fringe people that likes them but they're just far too expensive unless you're a professional talking to anopther professional.
Most of the rest of the world uses Windows and can't help the fringe in their world but
we will take their money.

 

[Ken45101]

I agree, Apple has their way and expect everyone to think and work like they do. I have an iPhone and a MacBook that I am typing this on. I have photos on the iPhone but I cannot transfer them to the darn Mac laptop (much less to my Windows PC). That darn Apple ID is hard to type on a phone and I usually get it wrong. They even sometimes demand it for free downloads! And now they want to add another level of password security? No, no, no.