I used an Intel Mac Pro here at the Museum and at home for a full year recently, two monitors, Parallels with Windows on one side, Mac OSX on the other. One with Vista, one with XP. Our graphics people all use Macs and I wanted to continue to be totally familiar with the Apple side of things. Pretty. But, to me, not as conducive to getting work done. I still have the Mac in my office, and use it for some things, but I switched over to a dual-screen XP machine. As an aside, one outcome is that I now prefer and use Apple laptops.
I had set up Entourage for them. Over the years, several versions, still many problems, and not a full deal. And here's a known issue, or so I was told, and it did happen to me twice, you should not use Outlook if you are also using Entourage: lost e-mail. One solution is to give them Parallels, with Office 07. They keep it running and often always open on a window on their right side monitors and then they get the full Outlook "experience." Even though Entourage is Microsoft's own, it is somewhat crippled. And most of the graphics artists need at some time to access FTP or other type sites that really only work via Windows, so they don't bug me about it. Another way is to let them access your terminal server from within, Remote Desktop for the Mac is, well, pretty, too. Then they can get Outlook, and other Windows advantages. For those users, I also save money by not buying Office for the Mac, they use and actually prefer iWork. I like it too... Ever since OSX came out, supporting Macs in a Windows environment is a breeze. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 3:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Kinda need a Mac, Okay, so we're hiring a graphic artist. In a company of engineers and manufacturing people, Macs are not exactly commonplace (I have one in my office that I bought so I could better relate to customers when they send in art, and after "using" the darn thing for a while, I no longer felt it was as important to relate.) My issue is that this graphic artist would prefer to work on a Mac. That's fine, but part of what she will be doing is preflighting artwork, and we use Outlook as our way to, for example, set flags on items in public folders, etc... I have never used Entourage, but I'm assuming that's what would she would need to use. Does it have similar functionality to Outlook in that you can access Public Folders (using E2K3 server), set colored flags, open other user's folders, etc?? Anyone have a mixed environment like that that can comment on how well Entourage operates in it? Thanks, Evan ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
