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Princeton University Details iPad Wireless Networking Issues
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Thank you for showing us you have absolutely no clue what are you speaking about
You don't have to be grateful or arrogant. He/she wasn't talking. She wrote a list that remains true, nevertheless. The current story and all those dropping/poor wifi threads support this.
Oh, yes, and you can add:
it can't make coffee
it can't launch space ships
and a lot of other things to that list
BTW we know that it will have proper multitasking support in a few months (if you really care), and iPhone OS is a REAL os.
It can't take photos ??? Wtf, did you ever see an iPad ? Are you seriously going to take photos with a device like that ?!?
Oh, yes, and you can add:
it can't make coffee
it can't launch space ships
and a lot of other things to that list
BTW we know that it will have proper multitasking support in a few months (if you really care), and iPhone OS is a REAL os.
It can't take photos ??? Wtf, did you ever see an iPad ? Are you seriously going to take photos with a device like that ?!?
Thank you for showing us you have absolutely no clue what are you speaking about (not my words).
Coffee? Space ships? Are you for real?
Currently, the list you are arguing about stands. By real OS, he/she obviously means a full OS, something that doesn't come from an iPod with a small screen and limited features.
I fixed this for you.
also, iPhone OS is a real OS? The TI-83 has a more substantial OS than the iPhone.
I believe the way the standard specifies the operation is that in the middle of the lease, the client requests to continue to use the address they have. IF the client does not request to continue to use it by the time the lease expires, then the address is returned to the pool. It would be after that return to pool time that the iPad would be 'forgotten' and the address *could* be given to a new device, although the DHCP server is supposed to check that the address is really not being used before it just gives it to another device.
DHCP has had a number of implementation issues in the past. I seem to remember a version of Windows Server that would occasionally drop their database of assigned addresses and would just redistribute them without checking the network for them. It causes all kinds of hell on large networks as you could imagine. Netware had some issues too. It's not as uncommon as you would think to have these kinds of issues, and it's more than likely a software issue that could be fixed with a patch/update...
DHCP is defined in the following RFC documents: RFC2131 and for IPv6 in RFC3315...
It is interesting that this issue was not picked up in testing prior to the start of mass manufacture but nothing tests like actually shipping the product...
Its rather sad because Cocoa/Cocoa Touch is a good quality framework. I'm not quite sure but I think basic networking stuff is also implemented in the Foundation Framework.
Puh-lease. Thats like saying the original doom is better than most FPSes out there because it has a chainsaw.
If you're going to pull of fanboyish comments at least make them have decent substance.
First, that article in no way disproves what I said. Apple had been 1 and then was 2. How is that poor compared to the rest of the industry?
Second, the methodology of that report, particularly its sampling of Apple products, is laughable.
If you look, you won't see anything about reliability in my claim either. I also never claimed they were the best. Simply that their QA is above average for the industry.
Here is some reliability data.
http://apcmag.com/who-makes-the-most-reliable-and-least-reliable-notebooks.htm
Apple is above average even when compared only to other premium laptops, let alone the bulk of the industry.
I've replaced 8 bad hard drives in Dell laptops in the past 10 months. Roughly 4 of them were in year old Dell E series laptops.
I've also replaced two LCDs in two Dell E series laptops, one about 5 months old and one about about 13 months old.
Yes, Apple hardware fails sometimes. As does everyone else's.
20 years without a problem I think is an extreme anomaly.
Computer parts fail. Replace and move on...
Maybe those hard drives were Segate? I've had an issue with the segate hard drive in my family's HP desktop. the Segate drive in my mom's work Latitude E6400 seems okay. It is a bit loud though.
I think most of them were Hitachi and Mitsubishi. One or two were Seagate, which surprised and disappointed me. Generally, I've found Seagate drives to perform and last very well. But nothing's perfect.
Hitachi/IBM Travelstar and Deskstar drives seem to have high failure rates. I tend to be an un-fan of Western Digital drives, too, which seem to have higher than average failure rates.
But, I haven't researched any hard data. Just personal experience working as a support professional (and it's not like I keep track of every HD I replace with respect to manufacturer, model, size, age, etc.).
It could be that Seagate has statistically high failure rates and I've just had good luck with them. Hard to know.
Don't know what or why, but.....
My iPad kills my home network constantly. If I turn the thing on, it works while I'm using it, but then my wireless goes off line when I stop using the pad, and then I have to reboot both that and my router. Same gear as I've had for years, but the pad is definately disrupting it. I also get where the pad "forgets" its wifi settings, and I have to drop and re-add to get it to work again. I hope there is a patch eventually....
FWIW, Apple has a bad track record on wireless from my perspective. My 2006 imac loses wireless if I use the energy saver functions. When I come out of sleep, my mac says there's no wireless hardware at all, and I have to pull the plug to get it to re-recognize. I reported this through the Apple bug tracker, and they acknowledged it 2 years ago and still never fixed it.... If there isn't a patch fairly soon, I'm going to return the pad as I'm not going to have all my wireless Apple products defective and screwing up my network.
My iPad kills my home network constantly. If I turn the thing on, it works while I'm using it, but then my wireless goes off line when I stop using the pad, and then I have to reboot both that and my router. Same gear as I've had for years, but the pad is definately disrupting it. I also get where the pad "forgets" its wifi settings, and I have to drop and re-add to get it to work again. I hope there is a patch eventually....
FWIW, Apple has a bad track record on wireless from my perspective. My 2006 imac loses wireless if I use the energy saver functions. When I come out of sleep, my mac says there's no wireless hardware at all, and I have to pull the plug to get it to re-recognize. I reported this through the Apple bug tracker, and they acknowledged it 2 years ago and still never fixed it.... If there isn't a patch fairly soon, I'm going to return the pad as I'm not going to have all my wireless Apple products defective and screwing up my network.
I would imagine you work with a very large pool of Dells
I've hard hardware failures over those 20 years, but they were single pieces in self built computers.
I wouldn't call it poor, but your wording in the post before would seem to say that Apple is miles ahead in QA compared to the rest. Either way, I get your point.
My wording did not imply that in any way. Your interpretation of my words was likely influenced by the proliferation of extremists posts on these forums. Moderate views are simply unrecognizable.
FWIW, I do believe that Apple has the best QA in the industry among the significant players. QA encompasses more than just reliability. It also includes the design choices, user experience, and services that go along with the products.
Computer hardware as a whole has gotten less durable. With how quickly stuff evolves, and how much cheaper it has become (forgetting inflation, a major factor, entirely).
Most surveys I see of Apple computers- such as those conducted by Square Trade and PC Magazine - seem to indicate that they're actually about average in reliability.
The one exception is that the ThinkPads I've had were both problem free. My Dells - especially my most recent- have been nightmarish.
#1 was a really cheap budget laptop (lowest tier by Dell -B130) . I upgraded it (Pentium M 1.6GHZ, 2GB RAM, etc.) for ridiculously cheap because I was able to stack a number of coupons that cut $800-something dollars (excluding tax) off the price. Pretty much everything gave out right after year 2.
Laptop #2 is a Latitiude D630. I seriously it's possessed
Having a Quadro NVS135M (bad bumping material).
NVIDIA finds this out and has Dell put out a BIOS update that makes the fan run 24/7 at decent RPM on all cards.
Since a normal card wouldn't heat up that much all the time, the fan craps out, then other components nearby get hot too.
The number of times I've had this thing repaired...
I'm probably not going to buy Dell again. Asus or Thinkpads.
Computer hardware as a whole has gotten less durable. With how quickly stuff evolves, and how much cheaper it has become (forgetting inflation, a major factor, entirely).
Most surveys I see of Apple computers- such as those conducted by Square Trade and PC Magazine - seem to indicate that they're actually about average in reliability.
The one exception is that the ThinkPads I've had were both problem free. My Dells - especially my most recent- have been nightmarish.
#1 was a really cheap budget laptop (lowest tier by Dell -B130) . I upgraded it (Pentium M 1.6GHZ, 2GB RAM, etc.) for ridiculously cheap because I was able to stack a number of coupons that cut $800-something dollars (excluding tax) off the price. Pretty much everything gave out right after year 2.
Laptop #2 is a Latitiude D630. I seriously it's possessed
Having a Quadro NVS135M (bad bumping material).
NVIDIA finds this out and has Dell put out a BIOS update that makes the fan run 24/7 at decent RPM on all cards.
Since a normal card wouldn't heat up that much all the time, the fan craps out, then other components nearby get hot too.
The number of times I've had this thing repaired...
I'm probably not going to buy Dell again. Asus or Thinkpads.
The latitude issue is Nvidia's fault. It affected MacBook pros too. while the fans weren't on 24/7, theMacBook Pro i played with had the intel cpu heated up around 212F full load, and that heated up the heat sink, so the Nvidia chip died.
My wording did not imply that in any way. Your interpretation of my words was likely influenced by the proliferation of extremists posts on these forums. Moderate views are simply unrecognizable.
Oh, how accurate you are.
The TI-83 can run non Texas Instruments approved programs, this alone qualifies it as a more versatile operating system.
Go ahead and let Apple control what you want to run on your computers, but I'll keep my freedom thank you very much.
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I decide what to install and run on my computer. I decide which computer to buy. Apple is a free choice for me.
Go ahead with your beloved TI-83 ...
Oh, I'm aware that every G84/G86 chip, regardless of manufacturer, is defective.
It's Dell's handling of the issue (band-aid fix to push it out of warranty, make the battery life run less, machine is hotter and more noisy) that rubbed me the wrong way.
Then why don't you take your "freedom" and do something productive?
Start by losing your uncontrollable infatuation with Steve Jobs perhaps.