From the article: > Good news everyone: Mac imaging isn't dead... yet. Also the article title doesn't mention breaking anything. So why does the title of the HN post say disk imaging has been broken?
Fixed - thanks.
The Untouchables – Apple’s new OS “activation” for Touch Bar MacBook Pros
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#52> We need a up-to-date portal with information regarding the future of mac management.
"mac management" is not in Apple's target market anymore. Actual professional usage ended with this mac laptop series.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except it's not. At least not until someone starts making aluminum unibody laptops with Retina displays running some enterprise Linux distro in which everything on the desktop "just works" including printing and networking.
Why Retina? 15" HP Spectre x360. UHD display. Option for double the max RAM in the new MBP. Several other nifty features, including an aluminum body and somewhat replaceable components without all of the glue nonsense you'll see in Apple products.
Good point. Frankly I feel like the retina screens hurt my eyes more than others. But it always seemed like one of the big Mac selling points.
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> The windows machines are unusable with all the forced updating, antivirus inefficiencies, and basically spyware. Hardly ever had such problems on machines I was able to manage myself. I'm not sure what you're referring to by "forced updating"; the W10 upgrade or just regular updates?
My company uses a product called LanDesk to manage updates on machines instead of WSUS. It pops up at least once a week if not once a day and says that I have to reboot. It gives me 60 seconds to choose to reboot now or postpone the reboot boot for 4 hours but you can only postpone 3 times before it automatically reboots. If you don't act in those 60 seconds, the system reboots. It doesn't matter if you were getting…
You listed the exact set of crap installed on our workstations when I worked for Blue Cross & Blue Shield...then you threw HIPPA out there and really sent it home. Do you work for a medical insurance company?
Re: The Untouchables – Apple’s new OS “activation” for Touch Bar MacBook Pros
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
My company uses a product called LanDesk to manage updates on machines instead of WSUS. It pops up at least once a week if not once a day and says that I have to reboot. It gives me 60 seconds to choose to reboot now or postpone the reboot boot for 4 hours but you can only postpone 3 times before it automatically reboots. If you don't act in those 60 seconds, the system reboots. It doesn't matter if you were getting…
You listed the exact set of crap installed on our workstations when I worked for Blue Cross & Blue Shield...then you threw HIPPA out there and really sent it home. Do you work for a medical insurance company?
Nope, a non profit charity.
Re: The Untouchables – Apple’s new OS “activation” for Touch Bar MacBook Pros
#56> We need a up-to-date portal with information regarding the future of mac management. "mac management" is not in Apple's target market anymore. Actual professional usage ended with this mac laptop series.
Tell that to IBM, adding 1500 professional Macs a week.
By the end of 2016, roughly one in four IBM employees will use a Macintosh computer. The tech giant, which employs 400,000 people, bought and provisioned 90,000 Macs since it started to support Apple laptops in June 2015. It expects to have at least 100,000 Macs deployed by 2017.
IBM now has the largest enterprise Mac deployment in the world, and it is Apple's biggest business customer for Macs, according to Mac maker. Apple declined to provide details on the other leading enterprise Mac customers, but SAP, Kelly Services and Intuit are among the company's most recognizable clients. In total, IBM says it manages 217,000 Apple devices for its employees today, including those 90,000 Macs, 81,000 iPhones and 48,000 iPads.
http://www.cio.com/article/3133945/hardware/ibm-says-macs-sa...
Re: The Untouchables – Apple’s new OS “activation” for Touch Bar MacBook Pros
#57Between this and the Windows 10 dual boot blowing speakers in the new MBP, I question the short term Linux viability on Macs, let alone the long term.
Re: The Untouchables – Apple’s new OS “activation” for Touch Bar MacBook Pros
#58Another indication that Apple is no longer committed to professional customers of their computer line and their needs - iDevices get the required admin tools, but the target demographics for their computers are consumers and web dev shops where everyone tends to their systems.
I do not know why Google doesn't just come in and absolutely dominate Apple in the 'laptop geared towards developers'-market... The Chromebook Pixel 2 is absolutely gorgeous, but it still comes with a prohibitively small SSD. They need to develop their own super-robust and sexy Linux distro and drop the ChromeOS nonsense. I just can't figure out why they aren't doing this.
Google wants to move you to the cloud. They can't ensure the data collection they need if it's regular Linux.
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I do not know why Google doesn't just come in and absolutely dominate Apple in the 'laptop geared towards developers'-market... The Chromebook Pixel 2 is absolutely gorgeous, but it still comes with a prohibitively small SSD. They need to develop their own super-robust and sexy Linux distro and drop the ChromeOS nonsense. I just can't figure out why they aren't doing this.
"I do not know why Google doesn't just come in and absolutely dominate Apple in the 'laptop geared towards developers'-market" There could be many reasons. Off the top of my head: * Google is not a devices company (disregarding recent forays into the the high end smartphone market), but a services company. It's not in their DNA to this, and it doesn't fit their (current) business model. The don't have the required ha…
> The "pro" market is not big, its probably not growing
Not sure I agree with that, when we're teaching everybody and their grandparents how to program, in order to compete in the "new economy."
Doubly-so for developing countries.
I would hope that the proportion of developers in the world should be increasing.
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I would argue that "pro" doesn't mean "user in an aggressively locked down IT department." I am a pro and I never need this.
Not all pros work in large enterprises, but a large portion of them do. My employer (a 20,000+ employee healthcare system) issues me a MacBook Pro, but the client techs have to do heroics do manage it, compared to the Thinkpads that are normally issued. I'm happy to have the choice (I actually like the Thinkpad hardware better, but OSX is better suited to my workflow as a developer compared to Windows), but Apple cer…
Yikes. As a professional, I'd never submit to someone else controlling the tools I use to ply my trade, and in my entire career I've never had to. Even when I've worked for large orgs (40k+ employees), Developers have always been root on their own machines, which were never managed centrally.
Do you seriously beg some tech to allow you to install the tools you need, or allow you to load kexts to instrument system calls for debugging, etc? That sounds demeaning.