At 9:34 AM -0500 1/12/07, John Golitsis wrote:
Is it April 1st already?!Among other things, I do all the IT "stuff" at the place I work, and we're almost all Macintosh. Those who have PCs at home HATE the Mac on their desk....even those with brand new 24" iMacs. If Apple can figure out why that is and address it, then maybe your bizarre prognostication will come to pass.On 12-Jan-07, at 8:27 AM, Craig Birkmaier wrote:FWIW, I think that Vista will be the straw that breaks Microsoft's stranglehold on the computing business. Millions of PC users will need to upgrade to run it, and when they do, Apple is going to capture a significant number of switchers.
Well at least you seem to understand the productivity issues as they relate to content creation.
I cannot speculate about the reasons that your staff seem to prefer their PCs over the Macs. I could infer something about the people you hire, but...
;-)For what it is worth, there seems to have been something about the way that TV engineer brains are wired that steered them to the PC, while the creative types moved to the Mac. One thing is certainly true. Windows NT provided a stable and relatively easy to program platform for technical control applications. You won't find may Macs in the backroom operations of a TV station.
But all of that is history now. If an application is only available, or runs best on a PC, just do it. With OS-X you can run Bootcamp, although Parallels seems to be the software of choice for running Windows and OS-X at the same time on the Intel Macs.
And this is the reason that Apple is poised to take a significantly bigger chunk of the PC market. You can go buy another PC with the horsepower needed to run Vista, or you can buy a new Mac, run all of your existing PC apps with your licensed version of Windows, and enjoy the benefits of the Mac as well. This is validated in current purchasing statistics, with 50% of all Mac sales from former PC users who have never owned a Mac.
For Vista to have a positive impact for Microsoft, it will need to be bulletproof - which it is not - and do a much better job dealing with the continuous attacks on MS product. Time will tell...
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