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Grandaman.com - Apple / Mac Tips
At work, I help to manage hundreds of Windows XP boxes on a domain. But we do however, have a quite a few Macs.
Listed below are some helpful tips and tricks that we have discovered while working on the Macs
Don't use a Mac
... haha, just kidding. While they are useful for particular tasks and some people just are afraid to let them go when outdated, the fact of the matter is that we have to deal with them.
One thing Macs are good for us ease of use, and thats because they bombard the network with mDNS traffic, so if you can, filter this out at the switch or router level.
At HOME, people usually have 10/100 networks, added to the fact that they don't have more than a handfull of Macs connected to that network, these users never notice the difference that their Mac's mDNS traffic makes.
Now, on a corporate network with hundreds of computers, regardless of Mac or PC, each and every machine needs to talk on the network to get things done.
If you have a bunch of Macs that don't use network resources efficiently, throughput sufferes. Now, if you use iTunes on your PC, you just brought this disreguard for network efficiency to your PC.
Your next task, equally difficult, is to explain this reality to the Mac people. Good luck.
I do have more tips and tricks, both with the hardware and OS. I'll get to that soon as I'm still working on this site.
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