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by NolF 3525 days ago
MacOS has plenty quirks for me though... I cannot get it to reliably connect to a win10 samba server (my android or boot camp give me no trouble). I should probably blame Google, but the ATF app sucks and gives a lot of problems transferring large or numerous files (ended up using WiFi... I get periodic blue screens (kernel panics) from using Chrome. When finder crashes I can't seem to be able to initiate it without a hard restart... I have had it for 3 years and it's only been one thing after another.

I love some features, but the trouble on a day to day basis is not worth it.
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AnonymousPlanet 3525 days ago
> I cannot get it to reliably connect to a win10 samba server Windows is by far the worst peer when it comes to file shares.

Are you sure it's the Mac? In my experience, things suddenly start working on the network once you remove Windows from the equation.

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NolF 3525 days ago
Other than when I restart the mac it sometimes connects, my android devices connects no issues, and bootcamp/VM do so too without problem, yes it could be windows.

I also used to have very slow transmission speeds between the two devices until I changed the mac to 2.4G (from 5G) (PC is wired)

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stomato 3525 days ago
If they were so much trouble, why did IBM deploy them stating they are 3x less expensive overall including support?

http://www.businessinsider.com/an-ibm-it-guy-macs-are-300-ch...

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majewsky 3525 days ago
My guess (from experience with using a Macbook at work in a similarly large IT company) is that their corporate Windows image has a huge pile of shit bundled into it for historical reasons that breaks all the time, while the Mac image is relatively frugal.

I can observe a slow tendency that our corporate Mac image piles on more and more junk over time, probably because more people are using Macs than the year before and thus IT allocates more headcount to work on Mac customizations.

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