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Posted on October 12, 2009 | tags

 
 

Tech: Snow Leopard has teeth: Apple’s new OS has a really big bug.

  • Do not log into the guest account. Since last month, users have been reporting a major Snow Leopard flaw on Apple’s support forums. Essentially, if you log into a guest account after you upgrade, then log out and go to your regular account, everything’s gone. And you can’t get it back. Yikes. This is not the kind of thing that users run into every day, but it’s a common enough feature to freak us out. source

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  • Phick5150

    What?!? The Mighty Mac has a bug in the OS? Tsk tsk.

    Overpriced, overhyped.

  • http://shortformblog.com shortformblog

    At $29, the OS upgrade is cheaper than Windows. Just sayin’.

    It just has a massive bug in it.

  • Phick5150

    I’m not willing to pay twice as much for a computer just because of asthetics, tho. Sorry, but I’m not gonna chunk down $2,500 for a computer that I can get for $1,000 (or less) with the exact same specs.

  • micahp

    But it’s NOT the same specs, it’s got a different OS-hence different performance and platform. Hardware-wise, there’s a bit of a premium, but not as much as people tend to think. A $1,200 iMac is a perfectly suitable desktop computer in %80–90 of situations.

  • Phick5150

    A $1,200 iMac is STILL twice as much as a comparable PC. No matter how you cut it, Macs are overpriced for no other reason than asthetics, IMO. I use one at work, and the $3,500 Mac Pro sitting on my desk is the first Mac I’ve ever seen (my very first computer was a Mac) that even comes close to living up to the hype. I consistently have more trouble with my work Mac than I’ve ever had out of any PC I’ve owned. Just sayin’ …

  • micahp

    Funnily enough, I manage two IT departments, One %100 mac from the servers down to the desktops, and the other is a %50-%50 PC/Mac hybrid. And while anecdotal evidence is, well, nice for soundbites, I’ll throw some of our actual metrics your way: While there is a premium of anywhere between %14–25 on the cost of the mac hardware, our ROI (return on investment) is 4–5 years on a standard apple layout vs. 18–21 months on a PC layout.

    Partnering with the enterprise sales team (who are still in a relative infancy as a program), I’m able to cut the costs further, keeping that premium in the %14 range. Our hardware failure rate for our mac environment is currently at %5 of desktops in our first period of 18 months. We have not upgraded our OS to snow leopard as of yet, due to the testing and bug shakeout, but when we do, the price of which will be $499 per server (Unlimited client license), $29 per desktop-as opposed to $3999 per server (25 Client Licenses) , $199 per machine.

    This doesn’t even touch the pricing of the office suites (which again favor Mac), or maintenance contracts (agian Mac favorable)

    Not only do the software license costs balance out the overall cost of the Mac platform, they actually reduce our overall overhead.

  • Phick5150

    You’re not going to change my mind, just as I’m not going to change yours. Those are nice ‘metrics’ you tossed out, but in my personal experience, gimme a PC any day over a Mac. My workplace is 100 percent Mac from the server down, and we consistently have crash issues, hangs, etc. — and we’re using Mac Pros across the board. I run a four-machine PC network at home, and I never have any problems. The thing runs 24–7. Others may have different experiences; those are mine.

  • micahp

    Funnily enough, I manage two IT departments, One %100 mac from the servers down to the desktops, and the other is a %50-%50 PC/Mac hybrid. And while anecdotal evidence is, well, nice for soundbites, I’ll throw some of our actual metrics your way: While there is a premium of anywhere between %14–25 on the cost of the mac hardware, our ROI (return on investment) is 4–5 years on a standard apple layout vs. 18–21 months on a PC layout.

    Partnering with the enterprise sales team (who are still in a relative infancy as a program), I’m able to cut the costs further, keeping that premium in the %14 range. Our hardware failure rate for our mac environment is currently at %5 of desktops in our first period of 18 months. We have not upgraded our OS to snow leopard as of yet, due to the testing and bug shakeout, but when we do, the price of which will be $499 per server (Unlimited client license), $29 per desktop-as opposed to $3999 per server (25 Client Licenses) , $199 per machine.

    This doesn’t even touch the pricing of the office suites (which again favor Mac), or maintenance contracts (agian Mac favorable)

    Not only do the software license costs balance out the overall cost of the Mac platform, they actually reduce our overall overhead.

  • Phick5150

    You’re not going to change my mind, just as I’m not going to change yours. Those are nice ‘metrics’ you tossed out, but in my personal experience, gimme a PC any day over a Mac. My workplace is 100 percent Mac from the server down, and we consistently have crash issues, hangs, etc. — and we’re using Mac Pros across the board. I run a four-machine PC network at home, and I never have any problems. The thing runs 24–7. Others may have different experiences; those are mine.

 

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