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Re: Apple Business

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Post by givinguflac »

dangus wrote: post #125
selectively wrote: post #118

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One of the things is an Acer. The other is a Mac. That sways purchase decisoons - one is a nice thing, the other one is a low end PC. I have used countless modern PC devices, including some from Acer. Few PCs have a trackpad of the level of the Neo and none from Acer. Your logic with "Apple's intentions" reveals a person who is incapable of decent analysis; macOS relies on gestures a lot because the vast majority of…

My point is that Apple is in many ways joining Acer, not bringing their luxury product down to the masses. Yes, in many ways they’re bringing a very polished product to the space. But in many other ways, look closely and you’ll see the cut corners. Again, I’ve felt the Neo in person. The chassis feels nice, sure. It’s not built to the same level as Apple’s other products, though. The bottom plate is not CNCed, it’s a…

>Look at laptop reviews from places like Just Josh Tech on YouTube

I stopped reading here.

Re: Apple Business

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Post by givinguflac »

dointheatl wrote: post #210
Schiendelman wrote: post #187

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I think you might be very surprised by what you can do with eight gigs of RAM on Apple Silicon. Apple does hardware compression into memory - it performs as well as a 16 GB machine did with an Intel chip.

I don't think you get it, OC tried the trackpad in a MicroCenter. It's game over.

Thank you, point well made!

Re: Apple Business

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Post by Melatonic »

zzyzxd wrote: post #79

This is interesting to me as the IT support for my family. I have been considering using MDM to provision Wi-Fi credentials and other device configurations. 3rd party solutions are a little bit too much for what I need. Apple Business Essentials with AppleCare+ for 3 devices and 200GB iCloud storage is $19.99 per user/mo. That's the same price as AppleCare One alone.

For home use I think you can just generate configuration profiles manually ? If you don't want to pay

Re: Apple Business

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Post by wil421 »

geoffharcourt wrote: post #86
meego wrote: post #77

I recently tried setting Apple Business Manager for our ≈20 people SME. The first step was "Domain Lock/Capture" which takes over all Apple accounts for a specific domain. I've never had a worse experience from Apple. The process is buggy, filled with foot-guns and dead ends. It expects huge amounts of work from users who have had their account for more than a few weeks and are expected to remove a lot of their perso…

The domain lock process was an absolute fiasco at our company. I think this could work if you did this at the time your company launched, but the moment you have employees who have Apple IDs tied to their work email that aren't from the Business Essentials system you are stuck in an impossible-to-mange place. There are several cheap MDM solutions for Apple devices that I would rather pay for than be dependent on this…

How does a company allow personal Apple IDs?

Re: Apple Business

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Post by [deleted] »

SoleilAbsolu wrote: post #222
meego wrote: post #77

I recently tried setting Apple Business Manager for our ≈20 people SME. The first step was "Domain Lock/Capture" which takes over all Apple accounts for a specific domain. I've never had a worse experience from Apple. The process is buggy, filled with foot-guns and dead ends. It expects huge amounts of work from users who have had their account for more than a few weeks and are expected to remove a lot of their perso…

FWIW, my experience doing this process for a ~130 person org last year was pretty painless compared to other Domain Claims I've initiated for other SAAS vendors (Docusign in particular), and MDM nightmares (expired JAMF certificates, I'm looking at you). We had to do it as ppl had made personal Apple accounts using our domain, meaning if they logged in with such an account and left, their iPhone magically transformed…

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Re: Apple Business

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Post by matt_daemon »

meego wrote: post #77

I recently tried setting Apple Business Manager for our ≈20 people SME. The first step was "Domain Lock/Capture" which takes over all Apple accounts for a specific domain. I've never had a worse experience from Apple. The process is buggy, filled with foot-guns and dead ends. It expects huge amounts of work from users who have had their account for more than a few weeks and are expected to remove a lot of their perso…

Apple's cloud software has been buggy as hell for a long time, at least for me.

I'm in a family iCloud group with my parents... one day I just woke up and had all my podcasts and music replaced with my Mum's :/

Would not want this anywhere near a "business" experience

Re: Apple Business

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Post by [deleted] »

philistine wrote: post #159
dangus wrote: post #132

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The computer is $600. It’s only $500 on the education store. Many Apple customers will not have access. Anyone who walks into a physical Apple Store will have to prove their eduction status. I am not sure why it’s eating competitors lunch when many very well-regarded competitors are in the price range available at stores. What’s better about a Neo than a Yoga 7? Same price range. https://www.bestbuy.com/product/lenov…

Aside from the pitiful screen resolution for a 14-inch screen and the fact that the Lenovo has a fan, they are indeed similar. But I don't know why you cannot see it as terrible for the PC makers that Apple finally has entered the sub-1000$ market. Since Apple has existed they've been in the high-end of the market, and now they're not. The Lenovo I'm sure is fine, but what it doesn't have is clarity of purpose. The N…

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