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Welcome back @Jaron78. Good to see you back. I think it's a great idea to get your CCNA through the ICND route. In all my years of certs, the CCNA is still a hugely respected cert.

With regard to Ububtu. Good work. I've got it too but must admit it's not my main machine. I've gone to the dark (or is it light?) side and am enjoying macOS High Sierra. Well. I was until I made the genius decision to go to 10.13.4 which cuts off external monitors! Currently waiting for displaylink to update the driver

 

Don’t blame you. It’s a joke. I’ve got a smart second monitor here sat blank. I’m new to macOS so this is the first time I’ve been stung

 

Fortunately I can have my curves widescreen plugged into it so I have that but my second screen, which I need even though my first screen is big, is just dead. It’s the DisplayLink drivers as you will read here http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/macos

I use two multi purpose dongles so lan,hdmi, usb etc which Apple if you’re reading, really make my beautiful MacBook Pro look crap with loads of wires poking out. Good work on only putting usbc ports on this so everything needs dongles now!

I’m new to Mac but I didn’t think they did this sort of thing. I’ve got a time machine backup but tbh I’ve got to give an important presentation on Monday and while everything’s on one drive. I don’t fancy breaking this thing shortly before a customer meeting

 

Seen a few people with the same issue - not good.

 

Sometimes feel like that myself the more time goes on. PCs have HDMI, LAN ports, old and new USB, like literally all PC laptops now I'd say so there's no need for any dongles. I don't think I've ever bought a dongle or similar for a PC laptop. I also produce reports now which I run through PowerBI to spruce up and yay, PowerBi isn't on mac so for a few things that I do, its essential I have access to Windows 10. I had the choice when I started my new job, mac or PC, and I hadn't seen the spec on the PC. I wish I had, it was massively higher in every way

 

So... I've had some very strange but positive experiences with this of late. When I first got this MBP 2017, fusion and bootcamp seemed to drain my battery ridiculously fast. I'd go from say 10 hours in macOS to 1.5 hours with either a fusion VM running or bootcamp.

Don't ask me what's changed but lately I've been able to bootcamp into Windows and get easily 5 hours. Perhaps after 3 months its figured its power management out or something. Either way it's been great of late

 

Yeah I can't explain it to be honest but this MBP is lasting very well on battery. Delighted obvs but I hate it when I can't articulate the reason for something I'm seeing :S

 

Oh absolutely and how long are we ever not able to plug in, not long