Hello all!
This is my first post, I am sure you get tired of people asking this over and over again but i need too. I appreciate all your feedback!
I run a small business in California and we are avid PC users' well everyone else is except me, i love macs but never owned one. I am at the point where i never want to look at another PC! They are nothing but trouble, confusion and ugliness!
They always work great for the first few months and then it is just down hill from there! I am in business and i don't have time to reformat each one and all that when there are problems and i am tired of paying my IT tech $300 per visit for stupid things! For instance i bought two new laser jet HP printers, when i was setting them up i could not figure out how to get them to hook up for the network through are exchange server! I ended up calling in the IT tech and he had to write a script and place it on the server for each printer, cost me $350.00! I recently purchased a MB for testing purposes with in 5 mins i was connected to the network and our severs and was printing from the MB! Crazy how easy it was!
Anyways my reason for writing is i am debating on which mac computer to purchase!
I have a small office staff and i was thinking of purchases mini's sense i already have monitors, keyboards and mouses'!
They will be using them for word processing, web, email, Microsoft office and we use quick books. Since we use quick books this means we will have to run parells because the mac quick books does not support multiple users.
SO my questions is has anybody experienced doing these things with a mac mini is it capable of this? Does it bog down when running windows xp?
We will be leasing these computers so they need to operate efficiently for at least two years. I want them to work well not just barley function while doing these tasks! I need my employees to stay productive!
Should i get a mac mini or just spring for 20" imacs? Honest opinions please!!
My next questions is for people with experience using mac book pros!
For me i am looking to swap to a macbook pro, sometimes i need to be mobile and i would love to be able to take my work home with me! My concern is agian computing power. I do the web design, graphic design everything marketing related. I use adobe dream weaver, photo shop, illustrator and a little video editing.
Will a Mac Book Pro honestly work well for this? Does anyone have experience doing what i am doing with it? I am also concerned about how difficult it is to hook up to a monitor and sync with the mighty mouse and might keyboard. I don't want a big 20 min setup process every morning!
I basically would prefer a imac but i do occasionally need to be mobile and could not image having a laptop, i am almost tempting to get both but i am not trying to be wasteful.
I would apperciate all your comments than you!
I am also on a time line so please hurry with the comments!
This is my first post, I am sure you get tired of people asking this over and over again but i need too. I appreciate all your feedback!
I run a small business in California and we are avid PC users' well everyone else is except me, i love macs but never owned one. I am at the point where i never want to look at another PC! They are nothing but trouble, confusion and ugliness!
They always work great for the first few months and then it is just down hill from there! I am in business and i don't have time to reformat each one and all that when there are problems and i am tired of paying my IT tech $300 per visit for stupid things! For instance i bought two new laser jet HP printers, when i was setting them up i could not figure out how to get them to hook up for the network through are exchange server! I ended up calling in the IT tech and he had to write a script and place it on the server for each printer, cost me $350.00! I recently purchased a MB for testing purposes with in 5 mins i was connected to the network and our severs and was printing from the MB! Crazy how easy it was!
Anyways my reason for writing is i am debating on which mac computer to purchase!
I have a small office staff and i was thinking of purchases mini's sense i already have monitors, keyboards and mouses'!
They will be using them for word processing, web, email, Microsoft office and we use quick books. Since we use quick books this means we will have to run parells because the mac quick books does not support multiple users.
SO my questions is has anybody experienced doing these things with a mac mini is it capable of this? Does it bog down when running windows xp?
We will be leasing these computers so they need to operate efficiently for at least two years. I want them to work well not just barley function while doing these tasks! I need my employees to stay productive!
Should i get a mac mini or just spring for 20" imacs? Honest opinions please!!
My next questions is for people with experience using mac book pros!
For me i am looking to swap to a macbook pro, sometimes i need to be mobile and i would love to be able to take my work home with me! My concern is agian computing power. I do the web design, graphic design everything marketing related. I use adobe dream weaver, photo shop, illustrator and a little video editing.
Will a Mac Book Pro honestly work well for this? Does anyone have experience doing what i am doing with it? I am also concerned about how difficult it is to hook up to a monitor and sync with the mighty mouse and might keyboard. I don't want a big 20 min setup process every morning!
I basically would prefer a imac but i do occasionally need to be mobile and could not image having a laptop, i am almost tempting to get both but i am not trying to be wasteful.
I would apperciate all your comments than you!
I am also on a time line so please hurry with the comments!
