I am responsible for research and purchasing of laptops at my company, and I'll say that we aquired about 45 R30/31/40 ThinkPads over the last 18 months, and the only problem I've had was with a bad memory chip, and one LCD flicker. My CFO instructed me to order two Dell Inspiron 8200, fully loaded, for him and myself. They are the most annoying, bulky, heavy, piss-poor UI designed laptops I've ever used. Who the hell puts a Firewire port under the PC Card slot? And why would you want the Network Cable on the left side near the front? And both came with bad memory from the start, not to mention Wi-Fi that never stays connected.
I'm not a fan of Apple, but it it's between Apple and Dell, I say go for the iBook!
I Change my stance - as a MCSA, I agree - this can go to a higher level. But in all reality, our office (as exposed as it is to the general internet) has gotten lucky in missing the major hits this year, including the SQL, Blaster, and most recent Sobig.f@mm. Although we have other pieces in place, most of that is blocked by a simple $1200 WatchGuard Firebox. A fwe added features like VPN, Virus and SMTP scannning, and we've twarted off *most* of the bad guys, and caught the rest isolated and cleaned withing a day.
And all that is from a sole IT guy running a $30M dollar companies IT department.
And yes... IT sucks to be the only IT guy in that large of a company.
The point - the IT guy should be capable of working with what he's got to make it right (or darn close).
Why is Microsoft and Windows always to blame? That's like the guy that told me the other day that he prefers open standards over WMA because he doesn't like Microsoft knowing his every last move....
That's why you read the technical documentation and configure things correctly - had these guys been up to date and monitoring security, this wouldn't have been a problem.
I'm with the first guy, this is an Administrator problem, not the OS. Microsoft may need to start locking things down by default in the future (as with Windows 2003), but I don't think that reason to point fingers at them.
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I'm not a fan of Apple, but it it's between Apple and Dell, I say go for the iBook!
I Change my stance - as a MCSA, I agree - this can go to a higher level. But in all reality, our office (as exposed as it is to the general internet) has gotten lucky in missing the major hits this year, including the SQL, Blaster, and most recent Sobig.f@mm. Although we have other pieces in place, most of that is blocked by a simple $1200 WatchGuard Firebox. A fwe added features like VPN, Virus and SMTP scannning, and we've twarted off *most* of the bad guys, and caught the rest isolated and cleaned withing a day.
And all that is from a sole IT guy running a $30M dollar companies IT department.
And yes... IT sucks to be the only IT guy in that large of a company.
The point - the IT guy should be capable of working with what he's got to make it right (or darn close).
Why is Microsoft and Windows always to blame? That's like the guy that told me the other day that he prefers open standards over WMA because he doesn't like Microsoft knowing his every last move.... That's why you read the technical documentation and configure things correctly - had these guys been up to date and monitoring security, this wouldn't have been a problem. I'm with the first guy, this is an Administrator problem, not the OS. Microsoft may need to start locking things down by default in the future (as with Windows 2003), but I don't think that reason to point fingers at them.