For all those OS X Administrators out there, keeping large numbers of Macs together can be tricky. Fortunately, over the years Apple has consistently improved it’s Mac Management application, Workgroup Manager, and it’s quite powerful. Here are seven little tricks that Workgroup Manager can do to make OS X administration easier.
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7 Workgroup Manager Tricks to Keep your Managed Macs in Line
Should you upgrade to Snow Leopard?
OS X updates always induce a frenzy of early adopters – people just have to have the latest version. But not everyone should upgrade. There are still a few Macs out there that really should go no further than Tiger (10.4). How do you know whether you should upgrade or wait until you get a new Mac?
Now that OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is steaming towards it’s release date, which should be within the next few weeks, let’s take a look at whether it’s an update for you or not.
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Do You Need a New Mac or Just Some Cleaning?
When we first get a new Mac it’s fast and runs so much better than our old one. We think that it will last that way forever. A few years down the road, the experience isn’t the same anymore. It’s dirty, sluggish, and you frequently see the beach ball.
At first glance, you’d think it’s time for a new computer. But sometimes, a new computer isn’t necessary. You just might need a little cleaning, tweaking and possibly an inexpensive upgrade to get your old Mac back.
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Antivirus with a Mac, Do You Need It?
In the past eight years that OS X has been around, there’s been a few pieces of Malware written but nothing on the scale that Windows users face. This doesn’t mean Macs are impenetrable as many may think. To counteract Malware, there are several Antivirus programs. While it’s a no-brainer that Windows needs them, what about the Mac users? Do OS X users need Antivirus?
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11 Dumb Things Almost Everyone Does With Their Mac but Won’t Admit.
Nobody’s perfect, although we’d like to think we are. We’d also like to think that we treat our Macs better than anyone else. Chalk it up to ignorance, stubbornness of just being uninformed, here are eleven dumb things we’re all guilty of doing to our Macs at one point or another and why we shouldn’t.
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