Whatever happened to Japanese laptops?

Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by TheAceOfHearts on Sunday November 06, 2016 @09:55PM (#12888459)

I work for a startup with roughly half of its employees working from Japan. All developers use Apple laptops. I can't remember off the top of my head if non-developers used other brands.

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Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by donw on Monday November 07, 2016 @01:24AM (#12889266)

Can confirm: developers here that work with foreign companies are almost all on Macs.

Windows still reigns absolutely supreme in native companies, though.

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Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by santaclaus on Sunday November 06, 2016 @10:06PM (#12888509)

I work with a few developers from Japan - MacBook Pros running Windows, across the board.

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Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by walterbell on Sunday November 06, 2016 @10:38PM (#12888635)

Why do they run Windows on an expensive MacBook Pro, e.g. how is power management, HiDPI, driver support, etc? Is this mostly Windows 7 or 10? Why not macOS + Windows in a VM?

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Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by raihansaputra on Monday November 07, 2016 @12:50AM (#12889078)

I don't know about running Windows in a VM, but drivers are very good and battery life (even on Windows) is probably better than most Windows laptop. Not to mention you could get a fully-loaded MacBook Pro almost anywhere on the planet if something happens.

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Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by gcb0 on Sunday November 06, 2016 @10:50PM (#12888678)

probably USA centric company that forces macbooks on all employees for IT policies. But then the devs need to work on compilers/debuggers for hardware that only runs on windows.

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Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by walterbell on Sunday November 06, 2016 @11:10PM (#12888745)

How do IT departments manage policy for a lot of Macs? MacOS server MDM is for small biz. Are there good OSS tools? I've seen a paper on cfengine, https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa10/tech/full_papers/...

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Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by ben1040 on Sunday November 06, 2016 @11:16PM (#12888772)

Everywhere I've worked that deployed Macs in any large capacity also used this management suite from Jamf.

https://www.jamf.com/products/jamf-pro/

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Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by astrange on Monday November 07, 2016 @01:07AM (#12889157)

I'm amazed that works, but don't do what they did. Use configuration profiles where possible.

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/featuredarticles...

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Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by gcb0 on Monday November 07, 2016 @11:52AM (#12892508)

ironically my 20k employee corp uses Microsoft Active Directory.

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Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops? by wapz on Monday November 07, 2016 @01:12AM (#12889195)

I live in Japan and laptops here are real expensive. Macbooks are not much more than similar-spec'd windows laptops (well until the newest generation came out). I wanted a decent windows machine with a dedicated video card and was looking at $1700 (for something I could get on sale in the US for $1200 from Dell).

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