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Apple Shares 11 Reasons Why Business Users Should Choose Macs
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As a Windows fanboy, I'd definitely be all over a Macbook if they ever released a touchscreen version. I'm not happy at all with Windows 11, I've recently picked up a Macbook Pro and it's really nice, but the lack of touchscreen slows me down. The only other complaint I have is the keyboard, I'm really surprised at how crappy it is on what is supposed to be a flagship device.
Oh really now? And if MS Office wasn't even considered "defacto-standard" in the business world then Windows wouldn't be all that widely used either since it wouldn't have any particular "trump card" software. Not a good argument.
Also keep in mind MS Office was on Mac first.
Then please explain how the enterprise world has no problems making the iPad the only tablet used and it's a $1000 non-modular device that can still fail and needs to be replaced.
MAC is far superior to a PC that gets attacked everyday...
Too bad they took away all the things business needs by gutting the Server.
Apple has no plans, secret or otherwise, to lock down macOS. MacOS needs to stay open because it is Apple's development platform. Developers need open systems to be productive. Apple has said explicitly that they have no plans to lock down macOS. If anything, they just released an API to allow alternate kernels to boot on the M1 which is being used successfully by the Asahi Linux porting project.
It's actually worse than that. Since Apple refuses to support the displayport MST spec, you can't connect a USB docking station to a mac and have it power multiple monitors. You'll need to connect a 2nd cable to your mac specifically for the 2nd monitor.
Not only can every PC made since 2016 do this, but even every mac as well, but only if you use Bootcamp instead of macOS.
I work in IT (supporting a few hundred users) and replacing the whole computer is not as big a problem as you seem to be making out. While users shouldn't be storing important information on their laptops anyway, we make sure their profiles are all backed up online, so it doesn't matter if they need a new computer. People lose their laptops too/get stolen. So you always need to have spares you can give them (or risk them not being able to work for a few days).
Plus there are lots of PC laptops which are just as hard to fix as Macs (e.g. MS Surfaces). But there is one big reason I have found over the covid period to recommend M1 Macs. Many Intel based laptops (especially the small ones) just can't cope running Zoom/Teams 8 hours a day, by about mid afternoon they will often start to overheat and throttle down the speed to the point where the computer becomes unusable. M1 Macs don't have this issue.
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Not to put words into Cosmosent's mouth but i suspect the lock down plans was for a default acos install, not for an api to boot a third party os. ( partly to placate the eu etc), ue not leave the hw unusable whe apple decides to stop updating the os
I work for one of the largest public companies in the US and we have a Mac deployment of around 50k machines and growing.
Any bespoke Windows only software is handled via Citrix VM, or in rare cases using Parallels/Virtual Box on the local machine. This has been a solved problem for 10+ years.
Excellent post and very well stated 👍🏼! Unfortunately you're wasting your time posting facts when people here just want to crap on Apple just because. They will ignore your facts, just because.
Very few businesses are going to adopt the new M1 MAC.
Why?
Unrepairable by outside shops other than APPLE.
un upgradable
How long the Mac and macOS will be around and supported has no roadmap by APPLE. Microsoft has Windows 11 and has already committed to supporting Windows 11 for at least the next 10 years.
M1's now can't run Windows like Intel Macs can.
MOST companies will hold onto their Intel Macs for as long as they can and then CONVERT to Windows.
Why?
Unrepairable by outside shops other than APPLE.
un upgradable
How long the Mac and macOS will be around and supported has no roadmap by APPLE. Microsoft has Windows 11 and has already committed to supporting Windows 11 for at least the next 10 years.
M1's now can't run Windows like Intel Macs can.
MOST companies will hold onto their Intel Macs for as long as they can and then CONVERT to Windows.
I completely agree, however the issue (at least with my company) is software. Using Macs is a non-starter if the special software you use can only run on Windows (and will never run on anything else).
1 reason I can’t use Mac for my business… can’t natively run REVIT.
Srsly Apple, start buying big software companies and port that stuff.
Srsly Apple, start buying big software companies and port that stuff.
Ridiculous and absurd. Very few schools and only a handful of businesses will have Windows-only software. This is not year 1999. 🙄
I honestly never thought I’d live to see the day when my company would adopt Macs outside of our Marketing team, but my department (training & development) merged with an education department within my company, and now my department is bi-platform and I now do the vast majority of my work on a MacBook Pro. As someone who’s used a Mac exclusively outside of work since 2000, this has been wonderful.
Apple Silicon is Apple’s biggest chance to capture market share for the Mac since the Intel transition. Glad to see Apple’s doing this.
Don't forget the recent announcement from Microsoft that you can rent a streamed Windows PC from them, no more need for hardware. Although with that said, there have already been a few companies that rent out virtual desktops like this.
Any company that has a significant engineering department must use Windows. Solidworks, Mastercam, Catia, NX, SolidEdge, the list does on... does not run on M1 Macs, and does not run well under VM. As a matter of fact, what Apple does not want you to know is that they use Windows machines to do the CAD for all of their hardware because none of the leading software runs natively on Macs. Even under Boot Camp Solidworks was a crap shoot. The companies that are contracted to actually make the hardware do the CAM programming on Windows too. Mastercam and its competitors do not run on Macs. I sure wish they did though. Maybe Apple should start buying these companies and porting software over if they are truely wanting to be a go-to business machine.
Agree with v3rlon especially when using keyboard shortcuts via spectacle app. Multiple monitors works much better on mac than windows for me.
Why would any businesses want to add extra cost and complexity to their IT infrastructure when they can use Widows directly at lower cost?
I worked at IBM with Mac. Saved the company money and worked for me with multiple monitors. Much better than Windows experience. The savings claim looks similar to IBM vs PC(Del and Lenovo). All automated deployment and security.
Agree. I found alternatives to Windows legacy apps. Most business application today are delivered via browser. Now that .NET is open source and Mono runs many Windows applications it was not a problem for me. I also switched from Office suite of products to Keynote, numbers, and Pages for my business productivity tasks. The import export tasks I got good at which was the biggest issue. In the end more productive with Mac. And less of an issue.