Advice on best operating system, hardware & software combo for Tessitura DBA upgrade (and anyone using Mac as Sys Admin..?)

Hi all,

A very general question to the many different versions of Tessitura DBAs out there - any strong advice or feelings about best devices or platforms on which to run Tessitura and any associated/integrated software? Curious to know if anyone has scoped new laptops recently for enterprise sys-admins and is interested in sharing their findings.

The Dell I'm on is not keeping up and am wondering whether to do a complete change to Mac, or just spec out an upgraded PC - portable but powerful, etc, and curious if there's anything in our upcoming v.16 upgrade that should be considered. Not rocket science, but needs to deliver on data science, so it's an investment!

Cheers and have a great week all!

Andrew

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  • I'm loving my Mac mini with the one exception of not being able to print tickets in the app. I've worked from an aging hand-me-down docked Dell laptop before, and the problem was mostly just slow, as well as a docked fairly souped up intel Macbook.  Dell's gone, but the macbook still rocks. Apart from that, a high end (maxed out memory and graphic card) iMac that aged out leading to getting the Mini when they came out was very, very nice for a very long time, though over time bits of it failed (functioned OK without wifi, mic in the end).  The iMac overlapped the Dell laptop and macbook, but in the end, mostly just for printing tickets and some outlier Adobe work where the license was Windows not cloud. 

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  • I'm loving my Mac mini with the one exception of not being able to print tickets in the app. I've worked from an aging hand-me-down docked Dell laptop before, and the problem was mostly just slow, as well as a docked fairly souped up intel Macbook.  Dell's gone, but the macbook still rocks. Apart from that, a high end (maxed out memory and graphic card) iMac that aged out leading to getting the Mini when they came out was very, very nice for a very long time, though over time bits of it failed (functioned OK without wifi, mic in the end).  The iMac overlapped the Dell laptop and macbook, but in the end, mostly just for printing tickets and some outlier Adobe work where the license was Windows not cloud. 

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