>
> Then maybe you should have not posted this? ;)
>
> Sorry, but I work with both systems, and I get tired of PC-centric people
> doing flawed comparisons. The entire "evaluation" you conducted was
> flawed, since you "evaluated" PowerBooks using PC users.
Then you missed the whole point of the evaluation.. I wanted to have a
hybrid network at my office. I wanted to give Macs to people at the web
design department; these people have used PCs all their lives. I really,
truly wanted to give Macs a chance; I figured, if Macs are as good as people
say they are, everyone will want to switch.
Not to mention, Macs were cheaper than the PCs. They were until we factored
in the cost of the software necessary to coexist with the PCs at work.
> Of course they
> are going to dislike the interface and have the problems you menioned,
> just as a company full of Mac users is going to dislike the Windows
> interface and have technical problems with Windows if you use them to
> "evaluate" Wintel laptops.
Maybe they'd like Windows better =) No, really! I attended a System X
seminar with a bunch of Windoze geeks, and the presentation guy almost
walked away, because he always said "now, System X can do THIS!" and we
always countered "Just like Windows!".
Seriously, the techie guy at Apple that was assigned to us accepted that
Macs had fallen way behind in their GUI, and that just lately they begun
catching up with Windows. Don't blame me, they were the ones who accepted
it.
> The simple truth is that people are
> comfortable with what they learned, and a change will almost always be
> met with resistance, especially in the beginning.
True. That's one of the reasons we didn't buy the Macs after all; people
wanted to work, not to learn a new system. The other major reason was that
we have been let down way too many times by Apple in the past. We still have
28 Macs lying around that Apple couldn't and wouldn't fix (Apple Mexico,
that is). Just the facts.
> BTW, the "death blow" being end users complaining because they couldn't
> open exe files received through email? ROFL... about the only executable
> files people receive through email are virii and "joke" programs. Hmmm...
Ahem... ever heard of C++ files? We use those all the times as macros. True,
people could always learn whatever scripting language Apple offers, or
re-compile their apps in System X. Not worth it.
> Sorry, but that is just incorrect. If you mean "incompatible with a few
> PC-only applications, yes."
With a few PC apps? Sorry, but I could only find Macromedia and some Office
stuff. Our database won't run on Apple (Progress). Our ASP won't run on a
Mac (Citrix). Nor the clients for those apps. Sun and Windows NT will. This
is enterprise stuff, not the apps you would run on your home-home office.
> You want to use PCs, or Macs, that's great. But let's drop these flawed
> "well, I did an evaluation" arguments --
Because if we continue with them, people will notice the computer is not the
goal... it's the tool to get there. Had I started a network from scratch,
probably Apple would have prevailed (I'd still need some Sun servers, but
then again, who doesn't? =)
Sadly, someone mentioned wanting to replace a PC laptop with a PowerBook...
i just explained how I tried to do the same, and the reasons why I failed.
Nothing else, nothing more.
Take care!
Francisco.
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