Hi there,
Assume a small business (5-10 employees), all professional/white-collar. Assume meetings off-site, but that the employees will have little out-of-metro-area travel.
$3200/employee tech budget:
a) souped up 27" iMac ($2.5k) + iPad ($630)
b) souped up MacBook Pro ($2.3k) + ACD ($900)
c) Mac mini ($800) + ACD ($900) + MacBook Air ($1.5k)
The nature of the work is primarily generic office stuff, some STATA/SAS but no audio/video/graphical work.
Thoughts on what option to standardise on?
arguments for each option that I see
a) highest cost items stay on site, less chance of significant loss. Sync problems minimal. Big screen = (hopefully) high productivity, lowest sysadmin difficulties.
b) most screen real estate, machine is portable/most off-site flexibility, sync problems nonexistent, intermediate sysadmin difficulties
c) redundancy/no single-point-of-failure problems
Assume a small business (5-10 employees), all professional/white-collar. Assume meetings off-site, but that the employees will have little out-of-metro-area travel.
$3200/employee tech budget:
a) souped up 27" iMac ($2.5k) + iPad ($630)
b) souped up MacBook Pro ($2.3k) + ACD ($900)
c) Mac mini ($800) + ACD ($900) + MacBook Air ($1.5k)
The nature of the work is primarily generic office stuff, some STATA/SAS but no audio/video/graphical work.
Thoughts on what option to standardise on?
arguments for each option that I see
a) highest cost items stay on site, less chance of significant loss. Sync problems minimal. Big screen = (hopefully) high productivity, lowest sysadmin difficulties.
b) most screen real estate, machine is portable/most off-site flexibility, sync problems nonexistent, intermediate sysadmin difficulties
c) redundancy/no single-point-of-failure problems