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A few tips on picking a UPS for your Mac
I always recommend APC products, but only where a battery backup is truly necessary -- servers and the like. As far as spikes &c go, however, I'm in deep doubt of the need for anything at all. In ten years of managing 125 Macs in four locations, none of which are plugged into a proper surge protector, the only equipment failure we ever had due to electrical issues was an HP LaserJet 4 printer. In one of those locations, our largest, we constantly have power issues compounded by the many fools plugging in overpowered heaters under their desks -- no problem for the Macs.
A few tips on picking a UPS for your Mac
Regarding spikes, etc., I think it depends on environmental factors. I've seen a number of unprotected computers get zapped through electrical overloads. Even an instance where a computer was protected, but not the phone line into the modem, and a surge through the phone line fried the motherboard. For that reason I always get UPS backups that have support for phone and ethernet cables. |
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