Maybe but 95%* of those computer never have any software installed on them after boot disk imaging.
*like all stats this was pulled out of ..... the air.
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Maybe but 95%* of those computer never have any software installed on them after boot disk imaging.
*like all stats this was pulled out of ..... the air.
thats mostly US share, mac's globle share is around 3.5%, which, indeed only put windows at about 95%.
Network in the "real" business world
WindowsGuy- you've been away too long... Macs network better in windows networks better then windows boxes do! Test- take two people with windows laptops and two with Mac laptops, take them to a new office, network, etc. See which ones are up and running faster; internet, intranet, printing, & file sharing, etc. Macs will be up and running on the network in minutes... something that can't be said about windows. Mapping a drive? A mac user will say, "what's that?" as the network is recognized, he enters the password, and it mounts as a volume. Printing? Oh yeh, Apple INVENTED CUPS. Remembering my network? Windows boxes don't do that so well when your hopping between offices... Macs? Seamless.
Can't do day to day business things on a Mac? What the heck are you talking about? My Mac makes me money, and I'm not a graphics guy. I run a small business. Our entire operation is on Macs. We do not support IT. We support our families. Part of our business is consulting and administration of design/build construction projects. We regularly are in other's networks and offices with our Mac's collaborating to get things done. Let me say, wasted time and down time is not tolerated in my company, that's why we will never use windows.
Peace.
WindowsGuy- you've been away too long... Macs network better in windows networks better then windows boxes do! Test- take two people with windows laptops and two with Mac laptops, take them to a new office, network, etc. See which ones are up and running faster; internet, intranet, printing, & file sharing, etc. Macs will be up and running on the network in minutes... something that can't be said about windows. Mapping a drive? A mac user will say, "what's that?" as the network is recognized, he enters the password, and it mounts as a volume. Printing? Oh yeh, Apple INVENTED CUPS. Remembering my network? Windows boxes don't do that so well when your hopping between offices... Macs? Seamless.
Can't do day to day business things on a Mac? What the heck are you talking about? My Mac makes me money, and I'm not a graphics guy. I run a small business. Our entire operation is on Macs. We do not support IT. We support our families. Part of our business is consulting and administration of design/build construction projects. We regularly are in other's networks and offices with our Mac's collaborating to get things done. Let me say, wasted time and down time is not tolerated in my company, that's why we will never use windows.
Peace.
Try to log in to the Domain, run login scripts, and then apply group policy restrictions.WindowsGuy- you've been away too long... Macs network better in windows networks better then windows boxes do! Test- take two people with windows laptops and two with Mac laptops, take them to a new office, network, etc. See which ones are up and running faster; internet, intranet, printing, & file sharing, etc. Macs will be up and running on the network in minutes... something that can't be said about windows. Mapping a drive? A mac user will say, "what's that?" as the network is recognized, he enters the password, and it mounts as a volume. Printing? Oh yeh, Apple INVENTED CUPS. Remembering my network? Windows boxes don't do that so well when your hopping between offices... Macs? Seamless.
Can't do day to day business things on a Mac? What the heck are you talking about? My Mac makes me money, and I'm not a graphics guy. I run a small business. Our entire operation is on Macs. We do not support IT. We support our families. Part of our business is consulting and administration of design/build construction projects. We regularly are in other's networks and offices with our Mac's collaborating to get things done. Let me say, wasted time and down time is not tolerated in my company, that's why we will never use windows.
Peace.
You think the majority of people even touch SQL databases???? I'd say 99.99% of business professionals don't even know what SQL stands for let alone have to use it. Sounds like you're in the IT dept since you're talking about networking and SQL. IT depts are VERY small compared to the number of people actually using computers at business. For example, we've got 1 IT guy where I work and we've got around 100 employees.
I'm sorry but you talking about how the lack of SQL is a killer for Mac just makes me think that you've really got a distorted view of what "Business Today" really is.
So true. I tried it on my Inspiron 9300 before I got my MBP and was really disappointed. Its better on the Mac, but I still love Firefox. FF3 FTW!
Until IE = 7++, Rant {
What I think is really funny is that IE7 sucks so bad that it causes security risks in OTHER BROWSERS.
I want to stab my eyeballs every time I see that FUGLY interface. It might have been a fair trade-off if it was easier to use, BUT ITS NOT!
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Try to log in to the Domain, run login scripts, and then apply group policy restrictions.
Try Centrify DirectControl
CUPS was created by Michael Sweet who now works for Apple (as of last year), but he wasn't working for them when he wrote it so it's a bit of a stretch to say Apple invented CUPS...
OK, I'll bite - what "Day to day business tasks" can't you do on a Mac? I'm interested because I run my business on Macs (we're an IT Consultancy), and we seem to manage on a Day to Day basis:
EMail? Yep, no problem
Word Processing: Check
Spreadsheets: Check
Presentations: No problem
Accounts? Got that covered
SQL DBs? There's more to life than SQL Server you know. We support customers on SQL Server, Oracle (Unix and Windows), SyBase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, etc, etc. We use Aqua Data Studio and support them all
Development: PHP, Ruby and Java under Eclipse. Apache for the Web Server
We do have Windows virtual machines for specific support issues with Windows based customers but they don't get used to run our business
You don't have to since nobody would use it on Windows. The 0.5% geek factor (that would) will go with Opera 9.5 instead anyway.
So when it comes to only picking up phone calls and writing mms , taking videos and photos, Nokia wins
The last version was fast, but it would randomly freeze quite oftern, hopefully that issue is addressed also.
Well obviously not with the twaddle that you typed after this statement.
There is very little you can't do using a Mac and for the things you can't do, you can run Parallels or VM Ware and be sorted.
well, now that firefox 3 is actually a decent browser, I can ditch IE on the PC and Safari on the Mac - yay
Oh yeh, Apple INVENTED CUPS. Remembering my network?
Peace.
this type of false information need to to corrected more than once, since obviously some other mac ppl are still so living in the reality distorted world invented by SJ, the facts need to be said loud and clear for more than once.
For your added information, let me correct more lies from apple' vague and obviously intentionally misleading statements(I try to do this as much as I can whenever appropriate)
Apple didn't invent CUPS, it bought the source codes after the success of CUPS already
Apple didn't invent webkit or safari, it forked it from KHTML.
Apple didn't invent multi-touch, it was invented 15 years ago NOT in apple's lab.
Apple didn't invent OSX, its built on top of UNIX-BSD, etc
Apple didn't invent LLVM, its an OSS.
Thats not to say apple didn't contribute to these projects, some cases even majority of contributions, but that is far away from "inventing" any of those. And many other companies contribute to all those projects as well.
I would never expect this kind of thing with Windows. --wink--
This is why I will switch to
You do realise that Microsoft are far, far better than Apple at spotting and closing vulnerabilities, right? I mean I guess they have to be, but that's not the point here.
As for business, Macs can indeed be used for small scale localised businesses. Large scale? Not really - too many obstacles unfortunately.
This is a pretty damn silly statement to make given that right now the OS market share is actually changing, and changing faster than it has for many years. I'm not saying Microsoft's share is going to disappear overnight or anything but to call the wars "over" during a period of unprecedented fluctuation in market share is just idiotic.
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You call a mere 2% market change in the US - and about 0.5% globally - over a year when MS has released a poorly perceived product and Apple has spent a fortune advertising changing?
Safari on Mac
this is slightly off topic, but, has anyone else out there noticed, as I have, that when updating any older Macs to Mac OS X 10.4.11, there no longer appears to be a download from Apple's Software update servers for Safari 3.1.1? I distinctly remember updating several Macs in my office to 10.4.11 and then seeing a Safari 3.1.1 update (from 3.04) Now, when I update any Macs to 10.4.11, I no longer get the Safari 3.1.1 update in the SW update panel.
I checked the version that gets installed with 10.4.11 and its still at 3.04, so I'm not sure why it isn't seeing the new version. I can download it and install it manually from Apple's site though. It's strange, and I'm wondering if anyone has seen this besides me.
this is slightly off topic, but, has anyone else out there noticed, as I have, that when updating any older Macs to Mac OS X 10.4.11, there no longer appears to be a download from Apple's Software update servers for Safari 3.1.1? I distinctly remember updating several Macs in my office to 10.4.11 and then seeing a Safari 3.1.1 update (from 3.04) Now, when I update any Macs to 10.4.11, I no longer get the Safari 3.1.1 update in the SW update panel.
I checked the version that gets installed with 10.4.11 and its still at 3.04, so I'm not sure why it isn't seeing the new version. I can download it and install it manually from Apple's site though. It's strange, and I'm wondering if anyone has seen this besides me.
Apple didn't invent OS X??? Damn, coulda fooled me. Sorry, but this statement is just plain stupid. OS X may be based on BSD and NeXT, but that is ONLY the underlying layer of the OS. The GUI that runs on top of it all that we call Mac OS X was most definitely invented, or created if you will, by Apple.
I've been, among other things, a database consultant for more than 10 years and I have no trouble working day-to-day on a Mac. It does everything a Windows PC can do... and more.