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Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 15, 2015 at 10:29 PM
An amusing article on how much money IBM is saving by installing Macs across its operations (5% helpline activity, vs. 40% for PCs, and better longevity, too).
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/10/15/macs-saving-ibm-money/
However, it’s worth bearing in mind that IBM recently reached a strategic agreement with Apple (for various corporate IT tools), so there may be a certain bias in this enthusiastic acclamation.
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 15, 2015 at 11:26 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
An amusing article on how much money IBM is saving by installing Macs
>across its operations (5% helpline activity, vs. 40% for PCs, and better
>longevity, too).
Well, they’d be blown away if they ever tried a Chromebook then ;)
>However, it’s worth bearing in mind that IBM recently reached a
>strategic agreement with Apple (for various corporate IT tools), so
>there may be a certain bias in this enthusiastic acclamation.
Yes, there seems to be some of that to it. But I was only half joking about the Chromebook. I’m starting to find it increasingly less fun to be spending time updating and troubleshooting my Windows machines and those of my loved ones.
And I do seem to come across people once in a while complaining about Apple updates messing up their machines as well. If I wasn’t so wedded to some of my Windows software and forced by my workplace to have to handle MS Office files on a daily basis, I’d happily switch to using the practically maintenance-free Chrome OS even on my desktop.
Posted by Marcos D.
Oct 16, 2015 at 12:20 PM
I work for IBM and I have just switched from a Windows laptop to a Macbook; many of my colleagues are switching too. As a Mac user at home, migration was easy for me but it’s a complete new world for the long-time Windows-only users. Yesterday I helped a friend who was in trouble with keyboard configuration - saved a call to the help-desk… Some internal applications and complex Excel spreadsheets does not (yet) work on Mac OSX, so those who has not observed this before ordering a Macbook may have to switch back (or try to run Windows virtualized).
It’s good that I’ll be able to run Ulysses but I am quite unhappy with Mindmanager (Mac version absolutelly does not compare to Windows one and many of my maps became unusable). Other tool that I use a lot is Todoist, the Mac app is nice (with color emoticons!).
Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 16, 2015 at 02:27 PM
I work in big corporate (transportation industry and regulators—not dot.com) and government environments and use a MacBook—but would find it impossible to work with clients without also having Windows virtualization on that platform too. Parallels and VM Ware are excellent and running Windows plus OS X in coherenence mode is terrific.
A Chromebook would never cut it. I’ve never run across anyone using a Chromebook at work, as a matter of fact.
(BTW, MindManager 16 for Windows is out and is very very nice. New interface; new features. I agree—MindManager for Mac is a stepchild product.)
Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 16, 2015 at 03:00 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
>A Chromebook would never cut it. I’ve never run across anyone using a
>Chromebook at work, as a matter of fact.
That might start to change soon. The first corporate Chromebook (Dell Chromebook 13) has only just hit the market, with some remoting and virtualisation apps that allow employees to use Windows apps if they really need to.
The other emerging force is the kids in the US education system who are currently using Chromebooks in school. As the first wave of them hits the job market, they will start questioning the status quo.
Anecdotally you can already see on ChromeOS Reddit that more and more university students are questioning their profs why their assignments need to be handed in in MS Word format…