![]() Many of the arguments given are very generic (e.g. Exactly what DO you do all day that would truely benefit from using a Mac. Not that it's nicer, but it has to be a whole lot more than "nice" to warrant introducing another type of machine into your environment right? If they're sitting right next to you and you have four Sun keyboards and Monitors sitting right there, then the connectivity issue becomes very uncompelling. Are the servers you admin in some distant place (other floor, other building, secured area). The only remotely compelling argument I've heard is the issue of connectivity and X compatability. If she gets you a Mac and you quit/get fired, how usuable is that Mac going to be for someone else in the company, esp if no one else knows anything about Macs. Not really arguments for or against, just some issues that could come up. Personal preference is certainly part of the argument, but I do think that the toolset on Macintosh is much more suited to being in a Unix environment. That's a fair trick to do on a Windows machine, usually requiring additional software. ![]() It more closely resembles X on Solaris, so it has a generally easier time rendering remote GUIs than eXceed or Cygwin/XFree86ģ. Even Terminal does a better job than PuTTY.Ģ. On windows, there is PuTTY and Cygwin, so the gap is narrower there, but both of those are not nearly so nice as the options on the Mac. The telnet client in Win2k is better than previous versions, but it's still not quite right for proper emulation, and I find vi is much happier when I work from my Mac. Terminal emulation is much better in Terminal and xterms (through X11). It's much nicer than the Windows machine for a couple of reasons:ġ. I also do sysadmin work on a number of solaris machines and I use my PowerBook when I can to do my work. ![]() Maybe someone from where I work will read this and I'll get fired for hanging a personal machine off the corporate network (we have the same policy).
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