Microsoft or Mac?

[Dan_Ashley]

I'm a retired CIO, That is, Chief Information Officer, for a big company.

it is somewhat advantageous for a company to have all (most) of its platforms the same. As a result of the need to run a wide variety of professionally developed software systems, the MS platforms were the ones we pursued.

I run Mac at home. MS 8 is worse than just awful.

 

[Motorcycledave]

I run all Mac here in the office and have for 12 years I use all the business programs PC use only made for Mac
they never fail to work every time, Quickbooks and all.
Dave

I'm a retired CIO, That is, Chief Information Officer, for a big company.

it is somewhat advantageous for a company to have all (most) of its platforms the same. As a result of the need to run a wide variety of professionally developed software systems, the MS platforms were the ones we pursued.

I run Mac at home. MS 8 is worse than just awful.

 

[Dan_Ashley]

I run all Mac here in the office and have for 12 years I use all the business programs PC use only made for Mac
they never fail to work every time, Quickbooks and all.
Dave

Some programs don't work on Macs: SCADA, ERP, ESRI Water Modeling, CAD/CAM, 3&4 Monitors, Fire Control, Multi-terabyte Billing, Preventative Maintenance Planing, Call Cdnter management, etc.

 

[SNOOPY]

I always hear people online swearing by Macs....if they are so good why aren't they used in more businesses?

I've asked that question to a few IT guys in the past w/ some surprising answers....so I'll stick w/ Microsoft.

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[Netminder]

I work in IT they both have goods and bad. It will really depend on what you are going to be using your computer for. If you do a lot of graphics MACs are great. If you need to use if for business then wintel for compatibility with other users and companies. I have both and neither are the best at everything. So think about what you are going to be doing on the computer and who you might be doing it with. If MAC works for you most of the time, then go with it. Both MAC and Windows have emulators (virtual) software that can be installed to run other operating systems. I love new toys so have fun testing them both before you buy.

:agree:I also work in IT for the government of Canada. Use both Macs and windows, and as stated above both have their advantages, I personally like both, although macs have consistently put out good OS's where as windows has only got it right every second OS lately. Unfortunately windows 8 being up there with Vista and ME!:yikes:

 

[Buggy]

I'm a PC guy who suffers from Mac envy!

 

[AlamoRyder]

Go Mac

I love this machine and do not ever regret changing from that damn virus prone PC. So much more intuitive.

 

[Dan_Ashley]

I always hear people online swearing by Macs....if they are so good why aren't they used in more businesses?

I've asked that question to a few IT guys in the past w/ some surprising answers....so I'll stick w/ Microsoft.

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[spyder3]

I always hear people online swearing by Macs....if they are so good why aren't they used in more businesses?

I've asked that question to a few IT guys in the past w/ some surprising answers....so I'll stick w/ Microsoft.

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That is for one reason and it has nothing to do with the ability of the mac. It has everything to to do with who got there first with a major foothold and software developers took the PC ball and ran with it. Apple back in the day screwed up big time by not being more open source.

 

[jcthorne]

I always hear people online swearing by Macs....if they are so good why aren't they used in more businesses?

I've asked that question to a few IT guys in the past w/ some surprising answers....so I'll stick w/ Microsoft.

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Same reason iphones are not allowed on many large corporate networks. Security Risk.

The Mac, inside its walled garden is a smooth running very nice computer. Staying inside a walled garden does have its problems. Apple cannot be all things to all people. There are just many things I need to do that require a PC running on a secure corporate network. Not a mac emulating a pc, don't work.

Its a personal choice, for your own personal use, go to a mac store and try one. If you like it and it does what you need, they are a fine piece of gear. Used to be a significant price difference but compared to business class PC hardware, pricing is pretty similar these days. Low end pc hardware can be cheaper but its not of equivalent design or quality.

 

[stillriding]

What a tremendous response! Thanks so much. I'll be visiting an Apple store today.

 

[wyliec]

If you have a number of tv's in different rooms, you may want to check out the Mac mini.

 

[mxz600]

iSheep......Baaaaaaaa!!!!

 

[MidLifeCrisis]

iSheep......Baaaaaaaa!!!!

Take it from another iSheep! Bought my first iMac 5 years ago for $1500. As an IT guy chasing windows problems all day long, I was coming home to do more tech support, when I got home. I made the switch to stop the pain and all of my peers mocked me.

Fast forward 5 years, and the iMac was still as fast as day one. My peers has each gone through at least two systems and suffered through Vista, Windows 7, which was mice and windows 8, which we all still hate.

I sold my iMac for $800 two weeks and bought two Mac Minis to set up a part time virtualization lab for my next certification. That translated to a loss of $700 over 5 years for one iMac. My snarky peers each blew a minimum of $900+ per each system and got no more than $100 for them when offloading their old systems. Add to that their two version upgrades each at $100+ and each were at a average negative $2000+ each. Compare that to my $700 loss and it paints a pretty good picture. I also never paid for an OS upgrade. They were free.

Add to that what they had to endure to troubleshoot their systems over time and their net loss was off the charts. Two of the three snarky peers now have Macs. Every vendor that presents their products run macs and virtual machines if need be. Windows runs a 100% better within a virtual machine, so absolutely no reason not to switch.

So yup, this iSheep says Baaaaaa Baaaaa Bahaha...your PC did what again? And You spend how much?

 

[MidLifeCrisis]

If you have a number of tv's in different rooms, you may want to check out the Mac mini.

Better yet, get an AppleTV and in addition to the built in NetFlix app etc., use the AirPlay feature on any mac to send over Audio, Video or mirror any app to the TV. You can do that on PCs too with a $10 app called AirParrot, but it's not quite as seamless. Still pretty good though.

 

[SNOOPY]

iSheep......Baaaaaaaa!!!!

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[Dan_Ashley]

iSheep......Baaaaaaaa!!!!

iPod, iPhone, iPad, iWatch. I broke.

 

[wyliec]

Better yet, get an AppleTV and in addition to the built in NetFlix app etc., use the AirPlay feature on any mac to send over Audio, Video or mirror any app to the TV. You can do that on PCs too with a $10 app called AirParrot, but it's not quite as seamless. Still pretty good though.

I was thinking of cruising the internet, especially SL's, and viewing on your tv. I have Roku for the other stuff; but, that's getting off topic now.

 

[wyliec]

iPod, iPhone, iPad, iWatch. I broke.

You can't be broke. The iWatch isn't out yet. I think it looks better than the F3. Does that take me off the iSheep list? Or, does that put me on the iSh*t list?

 

[MidLifeCrisis]

I was thinking of cruising the internet, especially SL's, and viewing on your tv. I have Roku for the other stuff; but, that's getting off topic now.

Good point.


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