Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops?
by walterbell on Sunday November 06, 2016 @10:38PM
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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
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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.
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.
Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops?
by walterbell on Sunday November 06, 2016 @11:10PM
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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/...
Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops?
by ben1040 on Sunday November 06, 2016 @11:16PM
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Everywhere I've worked that deployed Macs in any large capacity also used this management suite from Jamf.
Re:Whatever happened to Japanese laptops?
by astrange on Monday November 07, 2016 @01:07AM
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I'm amazed that works, but don't do what they did. Use configuration profiles where possible.
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/featuredarticles...
ironically my 20k employee corp uses Microsoft Active Directory.
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).