At Hyperic, 75% of us run Macs, and of that - maybe 20% of us have had serious problems with them. Mostly because some of us got the MacBooks with the lovely intel processors... our community guy stripped OS/X for Ubuntu, and I have to run parallels and can't have it run at all reliably with anything less then 2 gigs of memory. We've both had crashes where we lost all our data within the first 3 months of having them. Couple others have had the dreaded fan problem - where it stops working and fries the hard drive. I love my Mac, but its unstable with lower memory and the new Intel chip that NOTHING really runs on yet. Sales and support uses PCs and they've had no problems. That said, the folks that have them are the heaviest, most demanding users in the company. So its expected we have more problems.
I gotta say though... we love our Macs here, despite the problems...the genius bar folks are great and help get things resolved very quickly...and they are definitely doing something right given Apple's revenues!
37 acre tree farm covered in Yews and dirt in CT.
Note: It was my childhood home and I frequently filled the holes that the yews were in with water to make swimming holes in the summer. I can attest to being cancer free... but not sure if our lack of a proper swimming pool damaged the cancer curing dirt. =)
Personally this article puzzled me. I remember reading just about a month ago about a WAY cooler (pardon the pun) technology that they had developed for the chipsets. It is based on fiberoptics instead and carried far more data, at an incredibly small cost. I distinctly remember the article saying that they could divide all of manhattan into two camps of 4 million each, and one of the camps could have all 4 million people call the other 4 million people and it would take either a single chip or the same energy as a light bulb. Now THATS cool. This seems complicated and prone to meltdowns. Speaking as a user who has had 4 hard drives implode in 5 years due to heat (and sometimes a bad fan), this is just scary.
Same. I think this will do a world for its generally crappy performance. However, changing the OS is great as long as they don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. A lot of their problems are doing "desktop productivity" stuff with Micro$oft technologies. I too want to be able to synch my Exchange calendar and read attachments sent in a variety of forms. Are they relying on openoffice for this?
MyNewPlace.com just replaced a two year, painful investment in Nagios. Turns out SNMP isn't the best way to manage *everything*. Latency caused huge alert storms. Anyway, they looked at HP and after recovering from the sticker shock and realizing that it was going to take an army of consultants to build workarounds to functionality that wasn't there, they landed on Hyperic. Took 1.5 hours to convince them.
Nagios network monitoring felled by SNMP false alarms
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At Hyperic, 75% of us run Macs, and of that - maybe 20% of us have had serious problems with them. Mostly because some of us got the MacBooks with the lovely intel processors... our community guy stripped OS/X for Ubuntu, and I have to run parallels and can't have it run at all reliably with anything less then 2 gigs of memory. We've both had crashes where we lost all our data within the first 3 months of having them. Couple others have had the dreaded fan problem - where it stops working and fries the hard drive. I love my Mac, but its unstable with lower memory and the new Intel chip that NOTHING really runs on yet. Sales and support uses PCs and they've had no problems. That said, the folks that have them are the heaviest, most demanding users in the company. So its expected we have more problems.
I gotta say though... we love our Macs here, despite the problems...the genius bar folks are great and help get things resolved very quickly...and they are definitely doing something right given Apple's revenues!
-Stacey http://www.hyperic.com/
37 acre tree farm covered in Yews and dirt in CT. Note: It was my childhood home and I frequently filled the holes that the yews were in with water to make swimming holes in the summer. I can attest to being cancer free... but not sure if our lack of a proper swimming pool damaged the cancer curing dirt. =)
Personally this article puzzled me. I remember reading just about a month ago about a WAY cooler (pardon the pun) technology that they had developed for the chipsets. It is based on fiberoptics instead and carried far more data, at an incredibly small cost. I distinctly remember the article saying that they could divide all of manhattan into two camps of 4 million each, and one of the camps could have all 4 million people call the other 4 million people and it would take either a single chip or the same energy as a light bulb. Now THATS cool. This seems complicated and prone to meltdowns. Speaking as a user who has had 4 hard drives implode in 5 years due to heat (and sometimes a bad fan), this is just scary.
Same. I think this will do a world for its generally crappy performance. However, changing the OS is great as long as they don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. A lot of their problems are doing "desktop productivity" stuff with Micro$oft technologies. I too want to be able to synch my Exchange calendar and read attachments sent in a variety of forms. Are they relying on openoffice for this?
MyNewPlace.com just replaced a two year, painful investment in Nagios. Turns out SNMP isn't the best way to manage *everything*. Latency caused huge alert storms. Anyway, they looked at HP and after recovering from the sticker shock and realizing that it was going to take an army of consultants to build workarounds to functionality that wasn't there, they landed on Hyperic. Took 1.5 hours to convince them. Nagios network monitoring felled by SNMP false alarms