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@Minion-Queen said in iMac Pro:
@fuznutz04 said in iMac Pro:
For anyone using an older MBP, like @JaredBusch , what is your average battery life like? Mine sucks, and have to keep it plugged in most of the time. I'm considering getting a new battery for it.
I get about 4-6 hours that is with heavy usage.
wait.... what year MBP?
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@Francesco-Provino said in iMac Pro:
@scottalanmiller said in iMac Pro:
@Francesco-Provino said in iMac Pro:
@scottalanmiller said in iMac Pro:
Asus C201
I would trade it any day for an iPad pro with keyboard.
Ha, only because you've not used one. SO much better.
I had an iPad air (before it was stolen) for 1.5 years and it was very great. Unbelievable battery life. Never had a problem.
I've heard those are decent and I almost traded in for one when I had the Pro. But having used Mac OS recently, why deal with getting the Air and needing a better OS when you can just get the C201 and not worry about it, spend a fraction of the money and getting a lighter, more useful system with even longer battery life?
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@Minion-Queen said in iMac Pro:
@Francesco-Provino said in iMac Pro:
@scottalanmiller said in iMac Pro:
Asus C201
I would trade it any day for an iPad pro with keyboard.
I LOVE My Ipad Pro. I can use that pretty much all day long 8-10 hours battery life.
Would you recommend it for remote sysadmin stuff? I found the iOS rdp client very good, and the ssh clients also.
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@fuznutz04 said in iMac Pro:
@scottalanmiller Well that's better than what I'm getting now.
My C201 gets 13 hours. Best, laptop, ever.
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@Dashrender said in iMac Pro:
Now that's funny, everything I've ever read said the Mac had the best track pad on the planet.....
Though never having used one I have no clue.
Because Apple's marketing department wrote all those things you read. And yes, their trackpads suck big time. The best trackpad is still a slightly shiny turd, but the macbook one is like the gooey residue on the hose they use to clean out porta-potties.
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@fuznutz04 said in iMac Pro:
@Minion-Queen said in iMac Pro:
@fuznutz04 said in iMac Pro:
For anyone using an older MBP, like @JaredBusch , what is your average battery life like? Mine sucks, and have to keep it plugged in most of the time. I'm considering getting a new battery for it.
I get about 4-6 hours that is with heavy usage.
wait.... what year MBP?
2015
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@Minion-Queen SO that probably makes a difference. A few years difference in battery tech is huge.
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@Francesco-Provino said in iMac Pro:
@Minion-Queen said in iMac Pro:
@Francesco-Provino said in iMac Pro:
@scottalanmiller said in iMac Pro:
Asus C201
I would trade it any day for an iPad pro with keyboard.
I LOVE My Ipad Pro. I can use that pretty much all day long 8-10 hours battery life.
Would you recommend it for remote sysadmin stuff? I found the iOS rdp client very good, and the ssh clients also.
Not What I do, never even tried to do anything like that.
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@Minion-Queen said in iMac Pro:
IpadPro I can do it all on (IT side and Marketing).
Actually that's where a Chromebook shines. IT tools need nothing. It's development that needs some power in some cases. Graphics design, that kind of stuff, that's where Windows is often good. Mac is specifically bad for that. But marketing and IT are in the Chromebook wheelhouse.
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@Francesco-Provino said in iMac Pro:
@Minion-Queen said in iMac Pro:
@Francesco-Provino said in iMac Pro:
@scottalanmiller said in iMac Pro:
Asus C201
I would trade it any day for an iPad pro with keyboard.
I LOVE My Ipad Pro. I can use that pretty much all day long 8-10 hours battery life.
Would you recommend it for remote sysadmin stuff? I found the iOS rdp client very good, and the ssh clients also.
Their SSH is excellent, but expected.
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@Francesco-Provino said in iMac Pro:
@Minion-Queen said in iMac Pro:
@Francesco-Provino said in iMac Pro:
@scottalanmiller said in iMac Pro:
Asus C201
I would trade it any day for an iPad pro with keyboard.
I LOVE My Ipad Pro. I can use that pretty much all day long 8-10 hours battery life.
Would you recommend it for remote sysadmin stuff?
That's one of the hardest questions because it all depends on your environment. If you do "old school" manual adminstration with GUIs, you do everything through RDP.
If you use the "no login" Windows tools like RSAT, you really need Windows.
If you use state systems like Ansible, there is no need for any of that and a Chromebook will keep pace 100% with the most expensive systems.
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@scottalanmiller said in iMac Pro:
@Francesco-Provino said in iMac Pro:
@Minion-Queen said in iMac Pro:
@Francesco-Provino said in iMac Pro:
@scottalanmiller said in iMac Pro:
Asus C201
I would trade it any day for an iPad pro with keyboard.
I LOVE My Ipad Pro. I can use that pretty much all day long 8-10 hours battery life.
Would you recommend it for remote sysadmin stuff?
That's one of the hardest questions because it all depends on your environment. If you do "old school" manual adminstration with GUIs, you do everything through RDP.
If you use the "no login" Windows tools like RSAT, you really need Windows.
If you use state systems like Ansible, there is no need for any of that and a Chromebook will keep pace 100% with the most expensive systems.
This last part is the part that the other 99.99% of the world lives in though. Us plebs of system admins. . . .
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@scottalanmiller said in iMac Pro:
@fuznutz04 said in iMac Pro:
For anyone using an older MBP, like @JaredBusch , what is your average battery life like? Mine sucks, and have to keep it plugged in most of the time. I'm considering getting a new battery for it.
I feel like it was around four hours for me. I'm not sure though. It was decent considering what all it was running.
With macOS I would get 3-5 hours out of it depending on what I was doing. I have an SSD in it.
With it running Korora 25, I get 3ish i think. Only ran it down one time form full to dead while I was actively on it.
Every other time, It has been used/notused/used for hours.
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@JaredBusch said in iMac Pro:
@scottalanmiller said in iMac Pro:
@fuznutz04 said in iMac Pro:
For anyone using an older MBP, like @JaredBusch , what is your average battery life like? Mine sucks, and have to keep it plugged in most of the time. I'm considering getting a new battery for it.
I feel like it was around four hours for me. I'm not sure though. It was decent considering what all it was running.
With macOS I would get 3-5 hours out of it depending on what I was doing. I have an SSD in it.
With it running Korora 25, I get 3ish i think. Only ran it down one time form full to dead while I was actively on it.
Every other time, It has been used/notused/used for hours.
I'm surprised that Korora is doing that well. In the same ballpark at least. Power control is a weak spot since it's not vertically integrated.
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@JaredBusch said in iMac Pro:
@scottalanmiller said in iMac Pro:
@fuznutz04 said in iMac Pro:
For anyone using an older MBP, like @JaredBusch , what is your average battery life like? Mine sucks, and have to keep it plugged in most of the time. I'm considering getting a new battery for it.
I feel like it was around four hours for me. I'm not sure though. It was decent considering what all it was running.
With macOS I would get 3-5 hours out of it depending on what I was doing. I have an SSD in it.
With it running Korora 25, I get 3ish i think. Only ran it down one time form full to dead while I was actively on it.
Every other time, It has been used/notused/used for hours.
I need to actually do a test one time. I feel like it is soo short, because it almost always dies on me when out on a job. But the state of the battery also says "Service battery". Which from my research, just means that the battery holds less thatn X percent of it's original design.
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@JaredBusch said in iMac Pro:
@scottalanmiller said in iMac Pro:
@fuznutz04 said in iMac Pro:
For anyone using an older MBP, like @JaredBusch , what is your average battery life like? Mine sucks, and have to keep it plugged in most of the time. I'm considering getting a new battery for it.
I feel like it was around four hours for me. I'm not sure though. It was decent considering what all it was running.
With macOS I would get 3-5 hours out of it depending on what I was doing. I have an SSD in it.
With it running Korora 25, I get 3ish i think. Only ran it down one time form full to dead while I was actively on it.
Every other time, It has been used/notused/used for hours.
I'm also still on El Capitain
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@DustinB3403 said in iMac Pro:
If you use state systems like Ansible, there is no need for any of that and a Chromebook will keep pace 100% with the most expensive systems.
This last part is the part that the other 99.99% of the world lives in though. Us plebs of system admins. . . .
You have to include the cost of equipment in the cost of not doing things this way, of course
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@fuznutz04 said in iMac Pro:
@JaredBusch said in iMac Pro:
@scottalanmiller said in iMac Pro:
@fuznutz04 said in iMac Pro:
For anyone using an older MBP, like @JaredBusch , what is your average battery life like? Mine sucks, and have to keep it plugged in most of the time. I'm considering getting a new battery for it.
I feel like it was around four hours for me. I'm not sure though. It was decent considering what all it was running.
With macOS I would get 3-5 hours out of it depending on what I was doing. I have an SSD in it.
With it running Korora 25, I get 3ish i think. Only ran it down one time form full to dead while I was actively on it.
Every other time, It has been used/notused/used for hours.
I need to actually do a test one time. I feel like it is soo short, because it almost always dies on me when out on a job. But the state of the battery also says "Service battery". Which from my research, just means that the battery holds less thatn X percent of it's original design.
That's what I would expect it to mean, yes.
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@scottalanmiller said in iMac Pro:
When I had the job that had the Macs, I literally asked for a Chromebook as it would have made me much more efficient. And now that I have one, my Asus C201 little Chromebook is definitely far more polished and usable than the Mac had been two years ago. Sturdier, more polished, better battery life... totally different machines of course. But one is much more well designed for its purpose, the other was just... built to be marketed.
You wrote about underpowered macbook pro… I think your workflow has changed so much. Advantages of the chromebook vs iPad pro for a devops-like workflow?
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@fuznutz04 said in iMac Pro:
For anyone using an older MBP, like @JaredBusch , what is your average battery life like? Mine sucks, and have to keep it plugged in most of the time. I'm considering getting a new battery for it.
My MBP 2011 still got ~7 hours.
