Re: Quote from Survey: Apple rises in workplace despite IT skepticism
Go Macs :-) Mac Sent from my iPhone On 05/12/2011, at 8:59 AM, Peter Hinchliffe hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: I love the following entry by a reader on http://www.macworld.com/article/163995/2011/12/survey_apple_rises_in_workplace_despite_it_skepticism.html I was the executive at a company of about 300 people and we had an even split of Macs and PCs in the building. One day our IT manager was complaining to me and saying that Macs were more expensive, garbage and we should replace them with PCs. I was so pissed I asked for an accounting of all IT costs associated with Macs and PCs. The repair and maintenance costs for the PCs exceeded $200,000 AND the repair costs for the Macs was one invoice for a hard drive replacement of about $150. I told the IT manager that he had two choices. Replace all the PCs in the building with Macs or loose his job. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Quote from Survey: Apple rises in workplace despite IT skepticism
I had a similar experience. In one school, without my input, we had a PC network installed with 20 computers and a server. After 160 days I celebrated my first incident free day when nothing went wrong - all hardware and software worked (at least for that day) 3 years later I was at another school and just installed 20 macs and a server. No need for outside 'software' engineers, no need to even read a manual to configure the network. After 2 years I 'celebrated' my first instance of failure when a kid put a washer in a CD drive. Sure the PCs units cost less initially but. Regards, Eugene On 05/12/2011, at 8:59 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: I love the following entry by a reader on http://www.macworld.com/article/163995/2011/12/survey_apple_rises_in_workplace_despite_it_skepticism.html I was the executive at a company of about 300 people and we had an even split of Macs and PCs in the building. One day our IT manager was complaining to me and saying that Macs were more expensive, garbage and we should replace them with PCs. I was so pissed I asked for an accounting of all IT costs associated with Macs and PCs. The repair and maintenance costs for the PCs exceeded $200,000 AND the repair costs for the Macs was one invoice for a hard drive replacement of about $150. I told the IT manager that he had two choices. Replace all the PCs in the building with Macs or loose his job. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Quote from Survey: Apple rises in workplace despite IT skepticism
C'mon guys. Leave a few consumers and businesses with PCs please! Without all the PCs that come in for repairs and removal of viruses I'd have to close down our repair workshop;-) Stuart Evans T4 Technology ALBANY Shop 6, 69 Lockyer Avenue, Albany, WA, 6330 T 08 9842 9660 F 08 9842 9664 E stuart.ev...@t4.com.au BUNBURY Unit 2/14 Rose Street, Bunbury, WA, 6230 T 08 9721 9660 F 08 9842 9664 On 5/12/11 9:30 AM, Eugene edeg...@helena.wa.edu.au wrote: I had a similar experience. In one school, without my input, we had a PC network installed with 20 computers and a server. After 160 days I celebrated my first incident free day when nothing went wrong - all hardware and software worked (at least for that day) 3 years later I was at another school and just installed 20 macs and a server. No need for outside 'software' engineers, no need to even read a manual to configure the network. After 2 years I 'celebrated' my first instance of failure when a kid put a washer in a CD drive. Sure the PCs units cost less initially but. Regards, Eugene On 05/12/2011, at 8:59 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: I love the following entry by a reader on http://www.macworld.com/article/163995/2011/12/survey_apple_rises_in_workpla ce_despite_it_skepticism.html I was the executive at a company of about 300 people and we had an even split of Macs and PCs in the building. One day our IT manager was complaining to me and saying that Macs were more expensive, garbage and we should replace them with PCs. I was so pissed I asked for an accounting of all IT costs associated with Macs and PCs. The repair and maintenance costs for the PCs exceeded $200,000 AND the repair costs for the Macs was one invoice for a hard drive replacement of about $150. I told the IT manager that he had two choices. Replace all the PCs in the building with Macs or loose his job. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 046 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
