Re: [Fed-Talk] Holy Cow - Wow
Re: [Fed-Talk] Holy Cow - Wow
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Holy Cow - Wow
- From: Joel Esler <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 13:11:38 -0400
Recently I was provided a huge Dell workstation with all kinds of crazy RAM, processors, and 3 big monitors. Had dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu on it.
I moved everything, put my macbook pro down, and attached one of the monitors to it.
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On May 10, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ) wrote:
> I've done a lot of Apple praise through the years, it has just been
> recently with iOS I had beefs... I still think Android is better for
> phones, but on the computer front nothing is better right now.
>
>
> On 5/10/11 10:33 AM, "Link, Peter R." <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I guess lightning has struck or h*** has frozen over. Mike actually has
>> something nice to say about Apple. Is this really from Mike??????
>>
>>
>> On May 10, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ) wrote:
>>
>>> I know I've done my share of apple bashing latelyŠ But I want to take a
>>> moment and just say how beautiful Apple is on so many fronts.
>>>
>>> After an iPad and and Android tablet, and still not having what I need
>>> and the fact Best Buy had like $200 off of every Mac product last
>>> weekend I took my Xoom back to Costco and I bought a MacBook air. It's
>>> the perfect combination of portability and powerŠ
>>>
>>> I got the 256GB SSD versionŠ
>>>
>>> One wordŠ. WOW!
>>>
>>> The thing boots up in 3 seconds, it launches Adobe CS5 in like three
>>> secondsŠ This MacBook Air is easily 15 times faster than my Quadcore Mac
>>> ProŠ I can't even use other things now!
>>>
>>> But what really was amazing is how everything just workedŠ When I
>>> unpacked the Macbook Air, I loaded Office 2011, Adobe CS 5 Master
>>> Collection and some other thingsŠ
>>>
>>> I had to printŠ. When I clicked the magical Print button, the MacBook
>>> Air immediately says "Michael Pike's MacPro has a color laser".. I
>>> selected it, it read the SAMSUNG drivers FROM the MacPro and printer
>>> flawlessly, instantly.
>>>
>>> It just reminded me of how amazing Apple stuff isŠ There is not a
>>> windows configuration in existence that has you up, running, networked
>>> and working inside of 15 minutes and I did absolutely nothing technical.
>>>
>>> I have seen the light, it is SSD :)
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
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>> Peter Link
>> Cyber Security Analyst
>> Cyber Security Program
>> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>> PO Box 808, L-315
>> Livermore, CA 94550
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>>
>>
>>
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