<p>Oh, geez. The OP started the good old war again.</p>
<p>OKAY, we all know that Macs are > PCs. We all know that PC > Macs, as well. So drop the argument, we’re never going to stop.</p>
<p>About half of Penn’s IT department, and I work there for work-study, prefer Macs, and the other half prefer PC. I prefer Ubuntu or Fedora, but that’s because I use it as an integrated trading platform.</p>
<p>But there is no question that all of Penn’s IT department prefer PCs when it comes to the Penn wireless settings. Penn does not offer Macs the fantastic wireless that they offer for PCs because Macs are handicapped in terms of wireless. Their wireless card drivers do not allow the Airport to accept incoming packets unless the Airport has “Good” to “Excellent” singal strength.</p>
<p>Penn conveniently assures you that all students living in dorms or anywhere on campus have at least “Fair” signal strength. So that means I get around 300 “My wireless isn’t working” help tickets every WEEK. For every single one of them, I can’t do anything because the worst implementation of UNIX and copy of BSD - Mac OS X, will not let you cooperate!</p>
<p>So save yourself the trouble and get a PC. If you want, you can put an OS X operating system on it.</p>
<p>Oh, and it’s the same problem with iPhones and iPod touches. Wifi will work, but not nearly as well as Windows mobile operating system phones.</p>
<p>Source: I own an iPhone, I’m a senior IT advisor for Penn’s students and admissions department, and I’ve had no problems in wireless with PCs but a hell of a lot with Macs.</p>
<p>For PCs, I insert a CD and boom, the wireless works. It will work for the rest of your life regardless of where you go in Penn.
For Macs, your internet will rarely work if you go from one router access point to the other. Simply because Macs don’t offer proper 802.1x authentication.</p>