![]() ![]() I could probably look up the RAM specs on the Apple Macbook Pro line, but there is no guarantee you can swap them. The RAM ? The cheapest Macbook Pro has 4gig and the next one up has 8 Gig. ![]() ![]() changing the HD is probably a lot of effort for little gain. The Retina display ones have a solid state drive. The cheapest Macbook Pro has a 500Gb drive and the next one up has a 750Gb, so you're not really upgrading much. Most current Apple's have a recovery partition hidden on the drive to restore your computer. I doubt it is on the Lenovo either.Īs to the hard drive, it COULD be swapped, but the drivers for the motherboard, video, etc will be all wrong and Apple doesn't have a place to download drivers, like PC companies do. So in those instances, I bite the bullet and I wait the 30 minutes to download a 20MB file, then I can package it and upload it to Jamf and then everyone gets it at a faster speed than if ALL our users had to go out and get it themselves.Don't even THINK about trying to change the processor. I've encountered situations where Vendor X had horrible download speeds year-round no matter where I tried to connect from. Another drawback to scripted installs is that the vendor may not have a great internet connection. With the script based solution in the hacked scenario, there's no way to tell. And what if it fails the check, then what? If I manually go to the Mozilla website (for example) and download the app, then package it up and put it in Jamf for deployment, I at least have a good grasp on how many machines got THAT package. However, there have been recent incidents where hackers got access to those servers and inserted their own hacked version into the official channel when the old versions would autoupdate directly from the vendor's servers.One way to mitigate that might be to build in CRC checks into your scripts, but then that adds extra overhead. Your scripted method of obtaining the updated apps talks directly to the vendor's servers should make everyone feel warm and fuzzy. Your points for scripted installs are valid. I don't think there is a perfect solution. ![]()
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