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 Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services >> FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer >> Perth, Western Australia >> Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 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>
