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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 first thought this revelation brings to mind is that there might be enough professional employees inside IBM that would prefer a 17" MacBook Pro that Apple might consider manufacturing them again just because of this deal.
Cross your fingers, toes, eyes (and anything else you've got) and maybe we'll get lucky.
Cross your fingers, toes, eyes (and anything else you've got) and maybe we'll get lucky.
Agree. His assumption that the company culture would be better was wild.
Finally IBM folks realize that coming over from the Dark Side is a wise thing to do. This also will he;p the stock share price I'd venture.
It would be REALLY nice if IBM needed 17 inch MacBook Pros and so Apple decided to put them back into production with a 17 inch retina.
Won't bother MSFT that much. Likely a large fraction of MacBooks that IBM and other large enterprises buy will either dual boot, virtualized locally or remote desktop into Windows, thus still requiring an OS license, Office applications and support from MSFT. At least in a VM, Windows is locked up where security problems might be a bit more contained.
Yes, that comment was hilarious. What on earth did that person think they were running actually? System V, Linux, FreeBSD? I often wonder when people comment if they actually think their argument all the way through.
You don't think that a company that still has no Macs around in 2015 might have some flexibility and obsolete policy issues versus an otherwise identical company with a mix or a lot of Macs? The places with Macs that I have experienced tended to be nicer places to work, with less obnoxious company policies. But that's just my experience.
Wow. That's climbing toward $2Bn work of Macs! Good little deal for Apple's Mac division.
Corporate PCs are priced very high. Apple could charge full retail and still be about the same.
Except the life cycle for Macs tend to be much longer.
IBM has been supplying Apple with chip technology for many years.
Hmmm... No idea what you're talking about. Within my family, We've got 4--a 12" MacBook, 13" MacBook Pro, 13" MacBook Air and a 2007 iMac and I've had no "CPU" hogging issues and I run the DEV builds on my MacBook. Maybe get your Mac's checked out.
But, sweet that IBM is using Macs!
It still has about 20B in revenues, almost 50% gross margin... So, I think your exaggerating.
They've been sort of adrift though in the last decade.
They got rid of a ton of legacy things they were hanging on too in the last 5-6 years.
They just need to get some focus going.
The whole thing with Apple may be it.
Cool. I am glad they are working together. Unfortunately my work place is now run by a penny pinching person who keeps recycling ancient Lenovos.
The only CPU-clogging clusterfrack is Windows. And I am reminded of that everyday I use it work. Guess what I run back to every night when I get home. Hint, it isn't Windows.
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Huh? The company I work for uses the business class (still utter garbage) Dell machines and they are roughly the same price as a Macbook Pro. True enterprises are not buying the $500 garbage you buy at Best Buy.
I was guessing that since they said it was a good move by IBM that they knew more about it. Changing from Windows to OSX is a major move for a big company.
You want an honest answer? When you don't have to pay thousands for antiviruses, anti-malware, and a huge security team, it's worth it. I'm not saying you don't have to do any of these - although an anti-stuff is included in OS X - but you can definitely save 80% of your current security budget if you switch to Macs.
But yes, I believe they have rebates nonetheless
