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I carry 3 and I just flew to back home to Europe for the summer. - 1 MbP for my actual job. I’m not admin. I can’t even trigger a update. - 1 MBP to access th

I carry 3 and I just flew to back home to Europe for the summer. - 1 MbP for my actual job. I’m not admin. I can’t even trigger a update. - 1 MBP to access the parent company system. Like … 1 a month. ( it has a vpn client that I can’t install on the first one … that’s all ) - my personal laptop. Because I can’t do shit beside working on the two first. It’s ridiculous

GekkePrutser 5y ago
Did you consider booting off an external drive? Macs work really well in this scenario. Windows is notoriously bad at booting off USB (though I'm not sure if this is still the case). But Macs can do it really well. Linux too. I used to do this in earlier times when personal use was still a very dark thing (in our company it has since become normal - at least web browser stuff). In the days I carried a ThinkPad T42 I would just slip the HDD caddy out and stick in my own at night in the hotel. Later on I ran my own macOS on a company mac from a USB 3 HDD. Just hold option when booting. You can even encrypt both to secure them from each other. Luckily these days I don't have to bother with any of that anymore. But they weren't too bad options as long as you don't need both environments at the same time.
- easton 5y ago
  On Windows systems with BitLocker, booting off an external drive (or shoot, even opening the bios to look and see how much RAM was installed, as happened to me once) will often trip the BitLocker recovery prompt which means you have to call IT and ask for the magic 48 character password to get back into your laptop, to which they inevitably ask "why did that come up".
- aidenn0 5y ago
  I think OS 11 got rid of booting from external drives, but I'm not sure. I know that CCC can't make bootable backups for 11.
- dopidopHN 5y ago
  Ha, nifty. The previous job had the bios on lockdown. It would have trip something up. But here I could pull it off and not take my personal laptop. What’s annoying me is to have to carry 2 work laptop. Oh well :) But good tips.
vmception 5y ago
I had 3 macbook pros in my apartment and a spiritual chick I had over found “the energy to be misaligned” because I had excessive consumptive goods So I’ll keep those others in the closet (next to the flux capacitor)

GekkePrutser 5y ago

Did you consider booting off an external drive? Macs work really well in this scenario. Windows is notoriously bad at booting off USB (though I'm not sure if this is still the case). But Macs can do it really well. Linux too. I used to do this in earlier times when personal use was still a very dark thing (in our company it has since become normal - at least web browser stuff). In the days I carried a ThinkPad T42 I would just slip the HDD caddy out and stick in my own at night in the hotel. Later on I ran my own macOS on a company mac from a USB 3 HDD. Just hold option when booting. You can even encrypt both to secure them from each other. Luckily these days I don't have to bother with any of that anymore. But they weren't too bad options as long as you don't need both environments at the same time.

easton 5y ago
On Windows systems with BitLocker, booting off an external drive (or shoot, even opening the bios to look and see how much RAM was installed, as happened to me once) will often trip the BitLocker recovery prompt which means you have to call IT and ask for the magic 48 character password to get back into your laptop, to which they inevitably ask "why did that come up".
aidenn0 5y ago
I think OS 11 got rid of booting from external drives, but I'm not sure. I know that CCC can't make bootable backups for 11.
dopidopHN 5y ago
Ha, nifty. The previous job had the bios on lockdown. It would have trip something up. But here I could pull it off and not take my personal laptop. What’s annoying me is to have to carry 2 work laptop. Oh well :) But good tips.

vmception 5y ago

I had 3 macbook pros in my apartment and a spiritual chick I had over found “the energy to be misaligned” because I had excessive consumptive goods So I’ll keep those others in the closet (next to the flux capacitor)