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IBM to Purchase Up to 200,000 Macs, With 50-75% of Employees Ultimately Switching From Lenovo
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The point is provoking responses that point to how useless your post is? You're funny...
Since you seem to disagree - what was your intent / thought process when you posted that interview?
Steve was a Buddhist. So he didn't go to Heaven. Instead… he ended up in a Buddhist paradise…. Nerdvana
It's such a cluster fask I don't know what to think.
It can go really well for both companies or really bad for IBM.
What I totally absolutely don't understand is how IBM sales people can pitch in sales and say oh yeah I'm running on os x.
It can go really well for both companies or really bad for IBM.
What I totally absolutely don't understand is how IBM sales people can pitch in sales and say oh yeah I'm running on os x.
First impression: the improbable really is possible
Second impression: this will go in waves, the first purchase than the second purchase then each year after that. But IBM works as consultants and software vendors for companies all over. If the stuff they build is Mac-based, those other companies will be in line to change to Mac as well
Third impression: The iOS halo continues to glow. Apple may yet take over the world.
Second impression: this will go in waves, the first purchase than the second purchase then each year after that. But IBM works as consultants and software vendors for companies all over. If the stuff they build is Mac-based, those other companies will be in line to change to Mac as well
Third impression: The iOS halo continues to glow. Apple may yet take over the world.
IBM still hold a grudge over what microsoft did to them over OS2.
I'd love to see them push Mac into the enterprise.
I'd love to see them push Mac into the enterprise.
working in a company that uses 100% macs, i can assure you: the asshattery about google/microsoft is bad here. not too nice of a culture.
I hope Apple put touch screens on their Laptops and a 360 hinge, it's just a feature I cannot live without on a Laptop...
Also you need upgradable ram, Storage and you need to be able to change the battery. If you cannot do any of that stuff, your Laptop only has like a 2 year life before either something goes wrong with it or you outgrow it.
Also you need upgradable ram, Storage and you need to be able to change the battery. If you cannot do any of that stuff, your Laptop only has like a 2 year life before either something goes wrong with it or you outgrow it.
I only own Macs currently, but my girlfriends father owns a Thinkpad and that thing is built like a tank.
Somone could definitely argue it's not the most aesthetically pleasing unit, but to say they're garbage is absurd.
I agree with you, their pretty solid machines. If I owned an enterprise I'd probably distribute Thinkpads over MacBook airs lol.
I wouldn't jump on this wagon just yet. Web apps are no where near as stable or effectient as dedicated apps. Maybe in 10 years when everyone is running on Gigabit fiber and HTML5 is perfected across all platforms.
Why? Most of them will still be running Windows to do their job via bootcamp or VM. As an ex-IBM'er, this doesn't surprise me at all. It's just hardware that capable of running whatever OS people want. Not really a big deal.
I know the reality of this is more complicated. But did anybody else who grew up in the 1980s just read this like it said, "Coke to now sell 200,000 containers of Pepsi products annually in its employee lounges?"
PC fanboys do not buy IBM laptops . I doubt they would care at all.
Apple has awesome laptops, this is a smart move.
Given macs are PCs now, those old fueds are pointless now. My rMBP runs both OS X and windows.
Sorry but people who I have met who thought they were better/superior cause of the brand of computer they used were the biggest tools. In a business enviroment, it's a tool, that's all, nothing at all to do with the culture of the company .
I use both a MBP and Lenovo at work, both crash, and have their pros and cons. Neither makes my day to day job sooooo much easier.
Oh gosh!! ...
Its not about the Mac or Win its about the workflow in the environment. If workflow/pipeline is broken or illogical no matter what PC you use you are going to have headache. Its about getting the work down and done and culture of an environment doesn't depend on Mac or Windows but rather on efficiency setup and truly having a drive to get something done or in another words having a clear vision. Most big companies lack the clear vision within departments as they are easily lost in sea of partitioned projects that no one knows what is the project all about or its priority so they cant invest themselves emotionally. That equally happens in Microsoft's and Apple's work environments, yes Im talking about real job positions at those companies. There are whole departments at MS, Apple, Intel that have no clue what they are working on and most of the job positions are like that, get the spec sheet done take the paycheck and go home (by our shuttle). It gets boring really fast.
When it come to actual OSes I've seen bank employees on ten year old laptops with Windows XP and I don't have a clue how they get the job done. And I've seen design teams working on ten year old Mac towers running latest OSX slugging like snail and on top of that they try to get something rendered. I've also seen environments with brand new iMacs that try to do 3D modeling and rendering on them which was quite wtf moment as they spent tone of money on something that doesn't do them any good.
The last Macbook and Macbook Pro are very bad and they'll heavily regret their decision. But again, that's yet another product for which Apple's competition is even worse.
I bet if they offered a similar option on Lotus Notes or Outlook, 100% would switch to Outlook...
That's my current work laptop... Until they built an app to adjust sensitivity I had a piece of a cardboard taped over top of the touchpad and it still worked... And about a month of accidentally highlighting everything and deleting it before taking that step.
That's my current work laptop... Until they built an app to adjust sensitivity I had a piece of a cardboard taped over top of the touchpad and it still worked... And about a month of accidentally highlighting everything and deleting it before taking that step.
How are they "very bad"? In what way?
I’m not so sure that’s warranted. Windows may be required for whatever software they have but CPU-clogging clusterfrack?
