German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac
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Re: German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac
#2More interesting is this "Until now the highest profile switcher has been Auto Warehouse Co. which is in the midst of a switch of 1000 desktops"
That's it?!? And they're not even done, which means the largest installation is now under 1K.
Shows how far the Mac platform has to go in the 9-5 world.
Re: German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac
#3I wonder just how fun a corporate, locked-down, Mac will be.
Re: German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac
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Re: German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac
#5I wonder just how fun a corporate, locked-down, Mac will be.
About as fun as a corporate, locked-down PC is.
Re: German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac
#6More interesting is this "Until now the highest profile switcher has been Auto Warehouse Co. which is in the midst of a switch of 1000 desktops" That's it?!? And they're not even done, which means the largest installation is now under 1K. Shows how far the Mac platform has to go in the 9-5 world.
mac dominates the design/music/film industries though
Re: German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac
#7You know, back in the day, it was normal for everyone to have two computers on their desktop. There would be a generic PC running Windows with a 14" monitor for word processing and email, and there would be another machine for "actual work". If you were an engineer, it might be a SPARC or RS/6000 workstation. If you were a designer, probably a Mac or an SGI.
Nowadays you can get one box to do everything, a Mac is a Unix workstation that can run a PC in a VM. Why wouldn't organizations switch?
Re: German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac
#8More interesting is this "Until now the highest profile switcher has been Auto Warehouse Co. which is in the midst of a switch of 1000 desktops" That's it?!? And they're not even done, which means the largest installation is now under 1K. Shows how far the Mac platform has to go in the 9-5 world.
mac dominates the design/music/film industries though
Any evidence to back this up? I'm a web designer, I know a ton of other designers and they are all either multi-OS capable or fall firstly into the PC camp.
The posers (fresh out of school, concerned about image/style still) usually are using Macs.
/ducks
Re: German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac
#9More interesting is this "Until now the highest profile switcher has been Auto Warehouse Co. which is in the midst of a switch of 1000 desktops" That's it?!? And they're not even done, which means the largest installation is now under 1K. Shows how far the Mac platform has to go in the 9-5 world.
It doesn't mean the largest installation is under 1,000. It means the largest all at once switch was 1,000 (at least that was publicized, these things aren't always). Switching from one platform to another is pretty rare.
Re: German company switching 12,000 desktops from PC to Mac
#10You know, back in the day, it was normal for everyone to have two computers on their desktop. There would be a generic PC running Windows with a 14" monitor for word processing and email, and there would be another machine for "actual work". If you were an engineer, it might be a SPARC or RS/6000 workstation. If you were a designer, probably a Mac or an SGI. Nowadays you can get one box to do everything, a Mac is a U…
Can someone explain to me why designers should use Mac? I can't see any significant differences between Photoshop and Illustrator run in Windows and Mac.