Posted on 07/05/2014 11:06:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's been clear for some time that the iPad has taken the enterprise by storm as employees tote it to work and companies buy fleets of them. But Apple's PC, the Mac, has never been as dominant in the workplace, until now, according to new research from long-time Microsoft rival, VMware.
VMware queried 376 IT professionals and found that they are increasingly being asked to buy and/or support Macs in the enterprise by employees who want Macs, not Windows machines.
"Microsoft Windows has dominated enterprise desktops for close to three decades but it appears its reign is coming to an end. As BYOPC ["Bring Your Own PC"] and BYOD [Bring Your Own Device] continue to transform the enterprise, Macs have become a popular and preferred option compared to Windows PCs," says Erik Frieberg, VP of Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware, in the report.
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There's no reason to buy a $2500 Mac either, especially since they're all Intel CPU's. There's technically NOTHING superior about Mac hardware. There's no reason it should cost so much.
Apple's "secret sauce" is in their OS.
I use em all .... Job gives me what I want to work with. I carry a tough book and a iPad when on travel. Home I have a local company build me a PC tower they will service locally if needed.... and I also have a Mac Pro laptop. Theses days it pays to be familiar with multiple systems if ya use em for work or play. My opinion.
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With Koni shocks, an identical car held the US rally championships in '65 & '66...
Curious fact: there are more of those 14.5 sq ft rear windows left around than there are cars to use them. '-)
>>Pretty soon all you’ll need is a browser and you can take your pick - windows, apple, Linux, etc ...
That’s been said for a decade or longer. Desktop apps aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Historical and consistent. Follow the comments of the likes of dennisw on Apple threads over the last 3-5 years...
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OMG! You’re still using that G4. That’s great. Yes, I have a 17” MBP and love it. DH just upgraded to a new 15” MBP and he loves it. The display is amazing. I think my next one will probably be a MBAir as I never use my CD/DVD drive. But that may be several years off as I LOVE the big screen.
No complaints whatsoever - we’re diehard happy Mac users. Sounds like you are as well.
Where Web apps won’t do, there’s virtualization. I used to work at a place with Windows-only in-house apps that ran just fine in the Citrix client on my Mac. That works for anything that isn’t highly processor- or graphics-intensive, and it’s a lot faster and easier to roll out updates and ensure consistency than on individual workstations.
This was not a poll, in the sense of “Which OS do you prefer?” If was a Report on the installed Desktop OS, so the janitor could have walked through the building and come up with the same percentages as IT or Marketing or whatever.
Define “tech people”. If you mean “I.T.” (i.e. “Information Technology”) and are asking which is their preferred OS, then perhaps Linux would prevail.
If you mean engineers as “tech people”, then probably not.
BTW, When I first started in I.S. with my former Fortune 500 employer, our division’s computer department was called “I.S.”, “Information Services”. Somewhere along the way they changed it to I.T. By then I was working in Engineering Services and could see that the focus of “I.T.” was no longer on Service to the company as a whole but rather on Information Technology, as in “This is OUR thing and making it easy for us is more important than providing a SERVICE to the rest of the company”.
Inbreeding. Inside the Beltway Syndrome. Loss of perspective as to the purpose of your department. Of course, in many companies, HR (Human Resources) is the worst offender in this regard.
A long-time friend and I used to build custom, part-by-part, high-end units like yours, for ourselves and friends and our own businesses, but then we moved into RAID configurations for 2yrs.
Then back to off-the-shelf, high-end office-industrial units for 1/2 the price and we can get certain component replacements to up memory, graphics, but the rest of the essential and fast stuff is already there in the HP boxes.
If anything in the HP box needs to be changed, I have a local group of IT techs/repair guys, in their own business, who know their hardware and can replace, rebuild and upgrade. We shoot together semi-monthly and I send a lot of retail walk-in business their way. They’ve opened a 3rd store in February, so they’re doing well.
I kind of miss building into Lian Li boxes, but time constraints are what they are, nowadays. All of my units have lasted a l-o-n-g time, with regular monitoring, tune-ups and maintenance.
coming to this thread a bit late, but your experience mirrors mine.
I watched other tiny businesses flounder as they followed the “big guys” into the PC world, and felt sorry for them and their struggles.
Our Macs never failed us, and even though inexperienced, we never had to pay outside help to keep them up and running, for we couldn’t afford to be down for a day, or pay for expensive IT assistance.
I do not think it is luck, randita, I think Macs were designed to help average people get work done easily, without hassles, glitches, and complications, not to mention... having to master complicated software manuals.
Macs are not for those who love to tinker, and then boast about their skills in building/programming/troubleshooting, and they are probably not for those who must deal with what the front office dictates they use.
But, they are for us independent small business entrepreneurs, who must get it done, or lose our clients and/or our income.
I have no stock in Apple (wish I did), but am forever grateful to them for our ability to run our little business and survive in a tough marketplace.
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So you restore cars while we like putting together windows computers. Big whoop! Just another gayish attempt at Apple one upsmanship. Gay run company and the computer/tablet/phone gays prefer for status reasons
Samsung Note3 is what a relative got. She needed a larger screen than the pathetic iPhone offers
The remaining three machines are 2 Intel Core 2 Quads running at 2.4ghz (both at least 7 years old< used to run some things around the house and my amateur radio station, and the last is an Intel i5 that's at least 5 years old.
I'm in the same boat. No equipment failures. My needs are more modest so last fall assembled 2 Windows 7 computers. Win 8 does not bother me but I had the 2 Win7 licenses.
Haswell Pentium/8gb/Gigabyte mobo
Haswell i3/16gb/Asus mobo
I had the 2 power supplies which are years old w no problems.
Spent less than 500 dollars all together for 2 computers!
Pathetic Apple users have to spend minimum $1100 to buy a crappy 13" laptop
Mac mini forces the beggars to grovel for 4gb memory. You have lay out more coin to go 8gb. Prolly can't handle 16
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The Apple tax is like ObamaKare. You pay more for nothing useful
Where do you guys come up with these factoids? Your "facts" on the number of Macs sold in the first calendar quarter of 2014—Apple's second fiscal quarter—are from some left field from the twilight zone. Your number is about 2.64 million low. . . and then you claim a reduction year-over-year when there was an actual 5% YoY growth.
"Mac sales grew modestly, from 3.95 million units in the second quarter last year to 4.14 million now (first quarter of 2014). Revenues from the computers were $5.52 billion, up from $5.45 billion. That now represents just 12 percent of Apple’s overall sales. — Source, Macworld April 23, 2014While Apple Mac sales went UP 5% YoY, according to IDC, sales of all PCs—including Apple's increase—fell 4.4% overall in the same quarter!
If you liked Macs you would know something about them. . . and not be misspelling their name. And you would know that 97% of the Fortune 500 have already incorporated Macs into their businesses. Being UNIX machines, they network easily. Your refusal to consider what Macs can offer shows your mind is closed.
It can. Two 8GB sticks. Easy. Why post your ignorant FUD? On a Mac, 4GB is sufficient for most activities,
A group I worked with switched to Macbook Pro computers a couple of years ago. The machines were slow and the team was complaining. I looked at one of them and saw that it had 4 gig ram to support the internet and Adobe programs.
I recommended that they install 16 gig, which they did and are now happy. They’d be happier if Mac had a single key for deleting forward.
I guess tablets are becoming more common at work. I see a handful being used, but as a supplement to a desktop, which everyone has.
We have four Windows computers/laptops at home. The total cost was $1500. How much would Macs have cost? I've never been unable to use any business or graphics program. My latest purchase was an Asus Notebook for $300. I use it for Illustrator and Photoshop on the train. It runs flawlessly. At that price it's disposable.
My teenage girls have had problems with their laptops because they're... clueless. We had to wipe both. I have them save their stuff to the cloud now. They're both back up and running.
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