NYC Dept of Education has had it with Leopard’s Wi-Fi
- April 23rd, 2008
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Most Mac users currently running Leopard may have experienced this little problem; you’re tooling around the interconnected network of world wide web sites and all of a sudden your connection just drops…then reconnects…then drops. Or it’ll look like you’re not connected, but you are. Or vice versa.
9 to 5 Mac is reporting that the aforementioned glitch has aggravated the New York City Department Education enough that it’s “temporarily suspended receiving shipments of new Macs.” My wife is a teacher here in the Boston area and her school-issued Leopard-based MacBook is experiencing the same types of problems.
She’s been asking me why sometimes she can connect to our wireless network and why, at other times, she either can’t connect or is randomly disconnected. At first I tried to play it off like she was crazy, but she reads CrunchGear so she’s gonna know the truth soon enough. The jig is up, in other words.
Anyway, the problem has been reported since back in November but this recent decision by the NYC Department of Education “raised the profile of the long-standing matter,” according to 9 to 5 Mac, and may be addressed very soon in the next 10.5.3 update that we may or may not have been tipped about yesterday.
Nate (Who am I?)
2 months ago
I had this issue with Tiger.
It’s one of the main reasons I’m no longer using a Mac notebook. Without a solid wireless connection, a notebook is useless, to me.
Eric (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Oh, let’s blow this all out of proportion. At least the writer could bother to check his facts.
All Mac shipments are not halted. Only ones that will use wireless to connection to the network. Non-wireless Macs are being shipped from Dell’s (yell Dell’s) warehouse. And orders can continue to be made for new Macs.
I’d hardly call that aggravation. Apple has said 10.5.3 will fix it, and according to reports, the latest build of that release has no issues - which mean’s it’s already been fixed.
Please, we have enough false drama in Pennsylvania today, ease up on the hyperbolic - and inaccurate writing too?
JLegakis (Who am I?)
2 months ago
I have a few macbooks (3) running leopard and none have issues with dropping the internet.
thebonafortuna (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Wait a second - public school systems issue Mac notebooks? And here I was under the impression school systems nation wide are hurting for funding. Are they getting a huge discount other vendors won’t beat, are do they just enjoy throwing money around?
I’m honestly curious, this isn’t meant as a dig at Apple. Just seems there are more economical alternatives out there.
Ben Vaughan (Who am I?)
2 months ago
This has been happening to me at home with my iMac, Powerbook G4 (12″) and Macbook… I thought it was something broken with my WAP, since they all did it at the same time.
Hopefully it gets fixed with 10.5.3.
diem (Who am I?)
2 months ago
I get dropouts, too, on my MBP. I hope 10.5.3 fixes this….
dwalk51 (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Thats so weird! I’ve NEVER had problems with Leopard. I got my Macbook as a present at Christmas, and leopard runs awesomely. I guess I’m just really lucky. Lucky me. Still can’t wait for the big update. Seems exciting somehow…
Russell (Who am I?)
2 months ago
The Apple fan club just cannot accept any criticism of macs. Whenever anyone says anything negative about a mac they play it down. I got my first mac in 15 years and I was excited to try it again and rekindle the fond memories i had of using their old cube. I bought a mac book air. I have the following issues:
The wireless connection drops all the time
I tried to solve the problem by using the usb converter mac sells to connect to my lan and that also disconnects without cause
The first OS software update crashed the machine and it had to be fixed by their techies
For a “plug and play” machine it sure is hard to figure out. I still cant get the air to “piggy back” on my pc’s dvd/cd-rdr so that i can load additional software. (the claim that everything on a mac just works is total bs).
I bought the machine for my wife who has a vista pc that she disliked due to the issues with vista. She dislikes the mac book air even more.
Apple isnt all its cracked up to be as far as i am concerned.