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(Perhaps Macs don't need as much support as PCs )
Define: The hospital IT department's policies and strategies for supporting and managing Mac hardware and nonstandard applications.
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The hospital IT department's policies and strategies for supporting and managing Mac hardware and nonstandard applications.
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Business also look for the best price point. A savings of $100 each over 1000 machines is $100,000.
That is probably a good thing. Just try finding onsite support for them if you need it.
Agreed. Macs cost more money. But that is a hardware issue, not an OS issue.
So what is the specific issue that you guys are trying to discuss? Seems to me to be a moving target.
Stevie Ray hit the nail on the head with the reason companies won't deploy them. If you are going to support 200 computers with just 1 or 2 IT people, you need to standardize as much as possible.
Totally agree. But this is not the same thing as saying Macs are useless unless all you want to do is word processing and internet browsing.
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Yeah, and they're re-branding Vista as "the crappy, unstable OS for every system."
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OMFG, I'm so tired of hearing that garbage. ...
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OMFG, I'm so tired of hearing that garbage.
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...in all honesty, has been a PR disaster for Microsoft.
Whoa. All I can say is that your experience is not typical.
That much I will agree with you on. Actually it is. I think the negative PR has been primarily because of fanbois (not accusing anyone here) who get on all the mac forums and blogs and post all the stuff about how horrible Vista is when they've never used it. If you look at more recent blog posts (apparently fanbois tire of commenting after a while) you'll find comment and comment about how the "vista problem" is mostly crap made up by people who have never touched it.