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my first reaction is to not accept this and share anecdotes of my experiences, but maybe he's right. I don't run an IT dept. I've not done any cost benefit anal

my first reaction is to not accept this and share anecdotes of my experiences, but maybe he's right. I don't run an IT dept. I've not done any cost benefit analysis. I just know my second hand thinkpad was cheap, works well and I won't trade it for a mac any time soon. Maybe if I was loaded I'd buy my folks and siblings macbooks, but I'm not, and I'm happy enough to fix the odd issue on their cheap windows laptops. one or two reinstalls a year while I watch some TV in the background beats convincing them to spend money they don't really have on top of the line hardware but like I said, different story if you're making financial decisions for a big Corp

stOneskull 10y ago
for sure. there's a huge spectrum between a person and a small business and then massive IBM. for IBM it's three times cheaper. for me, it's probably cheaper to use debian on a raspberry pi than debian on a free second hand desktop that originally came with windows xp or vista, just based on electricity cost.
j2bax 10y ago
My own little anecdotal experience... I'm a producer at a small agency of ~30 employees. In addition to my more than busy schedule producing interactive content I also manage the Mac hardware/software for our team. I wouldn't consider myself much more than a Mac hobbiest at best, but I rarely have an issue I can't figure out. I was a PC/Windows guy that switched to Mac in college when I was doing a multimedia degree. So by no means a Mac expert and probably about as much experience with Windows at this point. That said, one thing I'm certain about is that there is no way I would take on managing a Windows network for ~30 people in addition to my fairly non-related position at the company. It's honestly very rare that I have to mess with anything with our network, computers, server etc. after having set everything up initially. This has been over the past 6-8 years.
narutouzumaki 10y ago
... that's because of the cheap second hand thinkpad, which is a marvelous piece of engineering, and probably the best the Windows/Non-Mac world has to offer in competition to Macbooks. Even though there have been some questionable redesign approaches and a slight (perceived) slump in QC in recent years, Thinkpads IMO are still THE best machinery out there to just get stuff DONE. They are reliable, full Linux compatibility, easy to service and have the best non mechanical / Notebook keyboard out there. Tbh the only thing I envy the Macs for are their brilliant screens. But we have red nipples on our keyboards, so yeah...

stOneskull 10y ago

for sure. there's a huge spectrum between a person and a small business and then massive IBM. for IBM it's three times cheaper. for me, it's probably cheaper to use debian on a raspberry pi than debian on a free second hand desktop that originally came with windows xp or vista, just based on electricity cost.

j2bax 10y ago

My own little anecdotal experience... I'm a producer at a small agency of ~30 employees. In addition to my more than busy schedule producing interactive content I also manage the Mac hardware/software for our team. I wouldn't consider myself much more than a Mac hobbiest at best, but I rarely have an issue I can't figure out. I was a PC/Windows guy that switched to Mac in college when I was doing a multimedia degree. So by no means a Mac expert and probably about as much experience with Windows at this point. That said, one thing I'm certain about is that there is no way I would take on managing a Windows network for ~30 people in addition to my fairly non-related position at the company. It's honestly very rare that I have to mess with anything with our network, computers, server etc. after having set everything up initially. This has been over the past 6-8 years.

narutouzumaki 10y ago

... that's because of the cheap second hand thinkpad, which is a marvelous piece of engineering, and probably the best the Windows/Non-Mac world has to offer in competition to Macbooks. Even though there have been some questionable redesign approaches and a slight (perceived) slump in QC in recent years, Thinkpads IMO are still THE best machinery out there to just get stuff DONE. They are reliable, full Linux compatibility, easy to service and have the best non mechanical / Notebook keyboard out there. Tbh the only thing I envy the Macs for are their brilliant screens. But we have red nipples on our keyboards, so yeah...