Posts made by AVI-NetworkGuy

Awesomeness!!

Currently wrestling a Linux server whilst eating a sandwich called "The Turkey" (It's wonderful. It's like Thanksgiving dinner between two slices of homemade bread - yum...)

I've never been burned by purchasing something that has been refurbed and guaranteed to work. With that being said, I'm guilty of having the same trepidation when buying something "used" as opposed to new. I suppose it comes down to the perceived savings. If I feel like I am saving a ton of money by buying refurbed than I do it. I got a factory refurbed Vitamix for like 1/3 the normal price directly from the manufacturer and it has performed wonderfully ever since!

FYI - My Twitter = @GalloTheFourth

@Minion-Queen Yup, got all that going already!

@Minion-Queen LOL!! Yeah, we don't a repeat of that.

So, I'm planning on acquiring a fairly decent Scotch while down in Austin and I'm not afraid to share it with my awesome fellow SpiceHeads at SpiceWorld 2015! The "where" and "when" can be determined via this thread, or even while down in Austin, but I'm open to whenever\wherever. I'm happy to offer my room at the Marriott (by the convention center) as a venue, but I'm open to whatever.

I'd love to hear your thoughts!

-Rich

@scottalanmiller honestly the insanely low cost of almost all kinds of storage these days really negates most excuses for choosing RAID 6 over RAID 10. Just my opinion

@JaredBusch said:

@Ambarishrh said:

http://www.appleserialnumberinfo.com/

Useful. Wish mine support more memory. But biggest thing I need to do is replace the original HDD with an SSD.

We just put an SSD into an almost dead MacBook Pro from 2011 - it is a NEW machine and is totally useful again. We bumped the memory to max, put the SSD in, and replaced the battery. Incredible, the value that an SSD can add.

@SeanExablox said:

@AVI-NetworkGuy +1 on JV.

I have been using Apple JV for the past 5 years when they began making more of a push into corporations. At $100/user/year it's not insignificant, but I have found on many occasions scheduling a support call and h/w support to be well worth it.

Another benefit is loaner laptop if you have to leave yours with the Genius.

That's right! I forgot about the loaner benefit. That came in handy for us the other day when I had bring an iMac in for a repair.

I've struggled with this decision a lot lately, especially after your OBR10 posts in the past, so this article is awesome. Thanks Scott!

@Dashrender said:

@AVI-NetworkGuy said:

@Dashrender said:

So what happens when all 20 of those people waiting in line have JointVenture?

Sounds like a nice plan right now.

While, of course, that is possible, it's highly unlikely.

Maybe, the reason I don't find it so unlikely is that the people who are buying a MAC already don't care about how much they spend on equipment, so slapping another $80 a year for this type of support would probably be next to nothing to them. Of course I'm only referring to Mac Book Pros, desktops, etc.. not iPads (maybe they would want it for the iPhone though).

You have to verify that you're a business. little Natalie who got an iPad for Christmas can't sign up for this. You also need to buy a minimum of 5 licenses to get started, so what you just said isn't really how this happens. So, like I said earlier - unlikely. lol

@Dashrender said:

So what happens when all 20 of those people waiting in line have JointVenture?

Sounds like a nice plan right now.

While, of course, that is possible, it's highly unlikely.

@Nic said:

This should help:

AMAZING! hahaha

@Dominica said:

lol, yup. No matter what you say, someone is going to get butthurt by it.

LOL.. "Butthurt"

We recently purchased about 7 different iDRAC's from xByte and they were beyond wonderful. In fact, one of the cards required another piece of hardware which I didn't know about, so a rep from xByte called to ask me if I needed it since the card required it. Saved us some hassle right off the bat. If you are a Dell shop (or even if you aren't - they sell refurbed servers), I would highly recommend checking them out. Good prices and great people to work with.

On a serious note - how cool would it be if they added terminal functionality into PowerShell ISE? Two birds with one stone.

Someone get Nadella on the horn! We need this, STAT!!!

This cert seems really "niche" to me. It looks like a cool conferencing product though. I would expect that if you find a company that really depends on it, having that cert would naturally be valuable to them (thus, valuable to you ;-)...)

@scottalanmiller My CEO absolutely LOVED the fact that they treated him like the CEO of Apple when he had to bring his iPhone in for something. There were around 20 people waiting to see a Mac Genius that day and he blasted right past them! He got a kick out of it. So now, when we buy a new Mac, getting a JointVenture license is a part of the purchase. There is also a portal where you can invite Apple-centric employees to so they can make their own appointments at the Apple Store.

OH! One other big thing. You also get a free training session on basically anything Apple for up to 8 of your employees! Most of it is fairly basic, but can be valuable to people who need to use Mac software who may not be too comfortable with it, from basic OS X usage to creating a great Keynote presentation.

Important note - this program does NOT replace AppleCare. Think of it as a "companion product" to AppleCare.