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MacBook not so popular with the ignorant?

ktbubster said:
MINE TOO! :) We have a special mac lab just in our union and then another apple store down the street :-D I love the signs in all the dorms reminding people to install antivirus software with the little * and the "unless you are running mac os or linux" it makes me smile :-D
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Texas Tech has a full lab of G5's donated by Bob Knight in the library, and the mass communications college has three full mac labs and two mac-certified engineers, it makes my life much easier haha.
 
I also get nothing but compliments. The MBP brings lots of attention. It is pretty sleek! But I guess you already knew that. I go to UMKC in Kansas City and they are very Mac friendly. Our network is great. Easy to use and very fast. Plus I have never had a problem with the network or anyone who ran the network.
 
orangemacapple said:
they didn't have wifi, so i plugged in my airport express while i was there. somehow it reset their modem and they couldn't get their pc online afterwards. one was down for several days while she called customer support ($) and the other was down a couple days before he could figure out what my airport had done to his modem settings.
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I've seen this happen at my sister's place. I don't know for sure, but I suspect what happens is that the cable/DSL modem binds itself to the first device that it talks to (using the MAC address as an identifier). It will refuse to connect with anything else until it is reset, at which point it binds itself again.

So when you plugged in your AirPort Express, it became the only device allowed to talk to the modem, and when you took it home and left, they were screwed... probably until they hard-reset their modems.

I could be (very) wrong but that seems to describe what I have seen.
 
notjustjay said:
I've seen this happen at my sister's place. I don't know for sure, but I suspect what happens is that the cable/DSL modem binds itself to the first device that it talks to (using the MAC address as an identifier). It will refuse to connect with anything else until it is reset, at which point it binds itself again.

So when you plugged in your AirPort Express, it became the only device allowed to talk to the modem, and when you took it home and left, they were screwed... probably until they hard-reset their modems.

I could be (very) wrong but that seems to describe what I have seen.
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that seems to be exactly what happened. airports must be EXTREMELY aggressive, and is called airport EXTREME! that's probably why people don't like mac's around. but it makes things extremely easy for us.

anyway, since then, i'm not allowed to use my mac at either of their places.
 
My college got fed up trying to fix settings on/for Windows laptops that they just opened the network and said connect if you can, but you're on your own if it doesn't work.

The net result is that the macs can connect without any problems, but the Windows ones have awful trouble.:D
 
it really annoys me how so many people are ignorant regarding macs, theres still a common misconception around people i know that mac crash more often, and are incompatible etc...
if only everyone knew the truth, no-one would buy a pc again
except hard-core gamers
 
orangemacapple said:
that seems to be exactly what happened. airports must be EXTREMELY aggressive, and is called airport EXTREME! that's probably why people don't like mac's around. but it makes things extremely easy for us.

anyway, since then, i'm not allowed to use my mac at either of their places.
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I have had this problem with every router I have ever used, it isn't a mac problem. The solution that works for me is powercycling the modem and router simultaneously.
 
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