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[Keith]

It's a fair point IMHO, not only do the av apps take an age to start, they hook into a fairly low level in the OS which means they can often be the source of crashes or slowdowns generally. We measured the speed impact on email apps with the latest slew of windows av tools and it's awful. Many also slow down your net access generally through inefficiencies and the inevitable download scan.

You can mitigate against SOME of the slowdowns by very fast disks, loads of memory and so on but ARGH!

In terms of longevity, I took a 5 yr old sony vaio round to my parents. It was so slow in todays terms and no memory for any modern apps really. Then DW realised that her macbook was about the same age, running the latest/greatest all nicely etc.

[Skywatcher]

How old is the macbook pro Ihave keith? that just flies!

[ukwdwnut]

very fair point, also depends how much software is on it as well that makes the registry huge..i find with the newish MS A/V boot time is still really fast, but ive no firewall as you would get on a hospital/surgery network and evrything else thats there too

just wondered can you logon to a win server with a mac?

[Keith]

very fair point, also depends how much software is on it as well that makes the registry huge..i find with the newish MS A/V boot time is still really fast, but ive no firewall as you would get on a hospital/surgery network and evrything else thats there too

just wondered can you logon to a win server with a mac?

you can RDP into it with native tools, and you can get to filestores etc and domains. So mac talking to an existing windows server setup? yeah it's ok.

Just as apple has a whole ecosystem with its hardware/software/phones/ipad, microsoft has emerged over the last few years at the standard for very highly integrated corporate networks. They've pretty much killed novel and unix was never quite as tightly integrated.

This is one area where apple have a huge fight on their hands and macosx server just isn't there yet.

[Keith]

How old is the macbook pro Ihave keith? that just flies!

I'd have to really think hard about that but not very old... mid 2008? cant remember exactly :/

[ukwdwnut]

you can RDP into it with native tools, and you can get to filestores etc and domains. So mac talking to an existing windows server setup? yeah it's ok.

Just as apple has a whole ecosystem with its hardware/software/phones/ipad, microsoft has emerged over the last few years at the standard for very highly integrated corporate networks. They've pretty much killed novel and unix was never quite as tightly integrated.

This is one area where apple have a huge fight on their hands and macosx server just isn't there yet.

blimey ive not seen novell in donkeys years was always a pain if memory serves. to setup a win server domain is a piece of cake...all those forests and trees tho, thats a lot of wood

[josh.p.]

It's met the reserve with 1 day and 12 hours left, Hoping I'll just get that bit extra now.

[Skywatcher]

better order that iPad mate

[josh.p.]

[Claire]