There are various quality levels in hardware. Like how a $300 PC is not the same as a $2000 corporate PC.
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IBM Says Macs Are Up to $543 Less Expensive Than PCs Over Time
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There are various quality levels in hardware. Like how a $300 PC is not the same as a $2000 corporate PC.
Only if you consider your own time as worth less than the loaded cost of hiring an IBM employee. The lost opportunity costs (e.g. billable hours) for many professional consultants from any time used playing with upgradable hardware might play for several new Macs.
I've had a PC for 45 years, and using it gives me nonstop orgasms. I have to replace my Mac every nine seconds because each and every one starts a nuclear war that kills all mankind.
I work at a medium sized public university and we have one Mac admin. When I switched to Mac, he was in my office less than ten minutes. It took him a few minutes to pull everything out of the box and hook it up and another few minutes to connect it to the network and start flashing the university's image file to it.
[doublepost=1477010894][/doublepost]Never underestimate the idiocy of the average employee and its effect on tech support.
I work at a medium sized public university and the idiot-proof nature of Macs really does decrease tech support calls.
Example: our last Lenovo all-in-ones had a touch bar on the front that allowed you to, among other things, turn off the screen. There'd be at least one tech call a week where someone accidentally turned off the screen and called to say their machine was broken. We had to send someone to their office to investigate only to find out they shut it off.
I've had the same mac for 9 year. I've gone through a PC every 3 years and they are slow as molasses when I do...
It's incredible. I'm glad the Mac is finally getting recognition and a seriously important customer for enterprise. This can only lead to good things.
It's normal to have more call today than before, because they are more Mac than before ;-)
We use a mix of macs and windows at
Your mom doesn't count as your friend
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I have a Mac Pro. It's the best Mac Pro. No ones gotta better Mac Pro then me. My friends call me and say hey you have a great Mac Pro. Believe me.
A lot of idiots in here that don't understand what support costs run a typical business.
Keep trying hard to be funny with jokes about no new release products being the reason. You're slaying them and everyone thinks you're the greatest comedians on the planet.
Keep trying hard to be funny with jokes about no new release products being the reason. You're slaying them and everyone thinks you're the greatest comedians on the planet.
Honestly, that part of the article is seriously questionable. I don't care how good Macs are - there is no way they can effectively have that kind of ratio. hardware failures alone across 90,000 macs would overwhelm those 5 admins.
Oh how the times have changed:
Mods don't taze me bro, i think this is highly on topic.
Mods don't taze me bro, i think this is highly on topic.
I absolutely agree with their findings as they match my own. Mac users at the office do not constantly whine that their computers are not working as opposed to the PCs in the office. I deployed Macs at home for the same reason. You can get a good 5-6 years from a Mac with little drama from the user.
To get good performance from a PC, you need to be a hobbyist who loves messing with it. That is what, 1% of the user base?
To get good performance from a PC, you need to be a hobbyist who loves messing with it. That is what, 1% of the user base?
I'm using a 2011 MacBook Pro for all my dev work. The only upgrades I've done are more RAM and an SSD. That cost me, $250 or so?
I'd say that's pretty good for a 5 year stretch.
I'd say that's pretty good for a 5 year stretch.
Forced us to stop using floppy disks. Oh the horror at the time.
Remember when Apple made us stop using a physical keyboard on a phone? That was the worst.
Or the time they got rid of ethernet ports? WE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT THEM!
They put webcams IN the laptops so we couldn't strap them to the tops!!!
Put speakers IN the computers so we didn't have to buy external ones!!!!
Remember the time they made wireless BUILT-IN to the laptop as if people would want that?!
OH THE HUMANITY!!!! WHY DO THEY DO THESE THINGS TO US WHEN WE NEVER WANTED THEM!!!!
He sounded more genuine sorry
That's what I've been hoping for, for a long time! At work, we all share stories of how we miss our Macs back home
That's the power of Enterprise grade AppleCare+, they'll have a new Mac out to you the next night probably.
There's always something to complain about, especially when there's an implication that an Apple product isn't complete trash.
This is really a windows/OS X thing more than a hardware thing. I have many linux workstations that, like the macs, are pretty drama free.
Because we all know how fast corporations update their hardware and software.
I'm genuinely curious as to why you've been buying Dells in the first place?
I agree, they are extremely well built.
If your PC is so wonderful after 9 years why on earth would you buy a new mac every 3 years?