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>finance’s requirement to keep costs under control Apple is offering some great value for the money with the M4 chip now, the Mac Mini is $600 and the 13" MacB

>finance’s requirement to keep costs under control Apple is offering some great value for the money with the M4 chip now, the Mac Mini is $600 and the 13" MacBook Air is $1k. The real killer is of course the corporate monitoring software and bloated endpoint security suites, we can all point to dozens of coworkers as the reason these exist, and unfortunately as far as I know of there's no corpos that do an "idiot test" to allow people who have demonstrated computer literacy and compliance with corpo security policy to be placed in a less restrictive group. A Raspberry Pi with an SSD is much snappier than the newest and much more powerful business-grade laptops our employees are issued with all the bloatware on them.

mytailorisrich 1y ago
What sort of ongoing support does Apple offer? We have quintessentially corporate Dells, which retail for about the same as Macs, and they come with full corporate support contracts... they sent someone to change the motherboard in mine, for instance. Support contracts are important in corporate settings, not just cost. And of course, very often corporate IT only knows Windows and MS in general so says they can't support anything else.
- raw_anon_1111 1y ago
  I’ve worked remotely for two companies that had Macs as an option over the past two years - Amazon (AWS) and now a smaller company. With Amazon, they shipped you a new (or one less than three years old if it still met the spec for what you should get based on your position) computer to your home, you ship the other one back and they send it off to Apple. With the company I work for now (700 people) , they would most likely arrange a replacement shipped directly from Apple new or from their internal IT department and I ship the old one back to the IT department and they deal with Apple. When I was hired, I could have either had my computer come directly from Apple or I chose to go to the local Apple Store to pick it up. The serial number was registered to the company.

mytailorisrich 1y ago

What sort of ongoing support does Apple offer? We have quintessentially corporate Dells, which retail for about the same as Macs, and they come with full corporate support contracts... they sent someone to change the motherboard in mine, for instance. Support contracts are important in corporate settings, not just cost. And of course, very often corporate IT only knows Windows and MS in general so says they can't support anything else.

raw_anon_1111 1y ago
I’ve worked remotely for two companies that had Macs as an option over the past two years - Amazon (AWS) and now a smaller company. With Amazon, they shipped you a new (or one less than three years old if it still met the spec for what you should get based on your position) computer to your home, you ship the other one back and they send it off to Apple. With the company I work for now (700 people) , they would most likely arrange a replacement shipped directly from Apple new or from their internal IT department and I ship the old one back to the IT department and they deal with Apple. When I was hired, I could have either had my computer come directly from Apple or I chose to go to the local Apple Store to pick it up. The serial number was registered to the company.