Re: IBM Rational Developer for i, V9.5.1 delivers new support for Apple Mac platform and other significant enhancements

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is what I see as well. Sadly even though the cost of 'sufficient 
capability' for RDi is now well less than the cost of RDi itself (less 
the monitors perhaps) some still won't step up to even that level.

I know of one company where staff would go buy memory, install it 
themselves and get BIG boosts from that. Then during a PC Audit, said 
memory would be detected AND REMOVED as 'non-standard'. Can't have some 
users with more than others you know. The next day staff would install 
new. I would never work for that company by the way.

As a NON employee one of the things I like best is having my own PC 
configured the way I want it. Many gigahertz lots of GB and a big old 
hunk of SSD. That cost is SO worth it when apps load NOW and files open 
QUICK and never do you sit and wait. I almost dread helping people with 
old laptops......

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 9/7/2016 9:08 AM, Justin Taylor wrote:
> I've always assumed the majority of RDi users are corporate developers who don't have any say in the PC's they use.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Bartell [mailto:aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2016 7:56 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: IBM Rational Developer for i, V9.5.1 delivers new support for Apple Mac platform and other significant enhancements
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> Ha ha.  I wish my geek knowledge extended to washers and dryers :-)
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> I'm curious, is this new support from IBM causing anyone to go out and buy a Mac?  I still like my Mac.  I am not as enamored as I used to be (they aren't as reliable as they used to be); but they are still better than Windows (my perception) and are more supported than Linux (which is what I hope to go back to some day).  Oh, and Macs last a looong time.  My wife's finally died after about 9 years (spinning HD started making noise).
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> Aaron Bartell
> litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i