Eckel reports, “That said, any knowledgeable technician should be willing to admit the following three advantages that Apple enjoys over Windows when deployed in enterprise environments.”
1. Lower Total Cost of Ownership
2. Greater security
3. Better performance
Full article here.
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1st thought when read the title:
– only 3 ?
Slowly but inexorably, the truth dawns upon more and more people…
Fsck it, you win.
I’m gonna tell you how I feel about Adobe and win a copy of Pixelmator!
I’m still surprised that people believe Macs suffer from viruses. I’m always saying “prove it” and no one can
# 3 is not true. There are many, many Windows based systems with similar performance to Macs. It weakens the list when a writer says something that is not true.
#1 is old. It’s been true for decades (literally). As far back as the mid 90s there have been studies showing this time and time again. Even Intel back in the mid 90s published in one of their 10Q filings that their TCO for Macs was significanly lower than for Windows based machines.
#2 is true since OS X. Since virtually no one is running OS 8.5 or 9.x then one could argue this is universally true. Is the Mac bullet proof. Only a fool would say it is. However, the track record is unasailable. Hundreds millions of OS X system operational years without a single virus/worm in the wild. Compare that with Vista which had a Vista specific virus in the wild after less than a 100,000 system operational DAYS! (So much for security through obscurity.)
We evaluated the cost of moving to Macs in my facility. And we concluded that it could not be done. There is simply NO support for Macs for enterprise manufacturing.
Read the article. He clarifies what he meant by “better performance” (such as boot time, power management, multimedia multitasking, etc.), and his arguments are reasonable. You need to be more specific about what you mean, when you say that Windows has similar performance.
“# 3 is not true. There are many, many Windows based systems with similar performance to Macs.”
For the same price??
@Shadowself:
I’m not sure, but I think you may be confusing total machine performance scores on games/office suite tests using benchmarking applications, with his comments about OS-only performance. They are not necessarily the same thing.
Applescript, UNIX commands, booting your OS off external disks are a better 3 if you’re going to limit it to that many.
…well, other than those things, Windows is better.
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Three reasons why it will never ultimately win:
1. Can’t
2. Attach
3. Huge I.T. Contracts
I thought they were gonna say:
1. Steve
2. Jobs
3. Rules
Well, Windows totally and completely dominates the Mac when it comes to viruses and malware. Without a doubt, Windows spawned and maintains an entire industry revolving around its lack of security.
Actually they both suck. Ever since Snow Leo became blind to filetypes and creator codes, it gets confused from time to time – even after selecting “Always Open With….” Maybe it needs spelling out: A.L.W.A.Y.S.
They differ by degree though because Windows is in another league altogether. Even Adobe sucks less. Well, maybe just as bad.
desktops and workstations sure…
xserves and server for all your important services? forget, flakey as hell.. stick to linux or real bsd.
Built-in Cisco ipSec VPN support
Built-in exchange support
Why do they call it “the enterprise?” Always bugs me.
@Shadowself’s
“# 3 is not true. There are many, many Windows based systems with similar performance to Macs. It weakens the list when a writer says something that is not true.”
It’s at least partially true and absolutely eventually true. They start off on equal footing performance-wise, but the PC slowly begins to bog-down with secret malware the user isn’t aware of beyond the fact that their computer’s chugging along slower an slower everyday.
My wife has repeatedly “re-freshed” the PCs in the house several times–all the while my 6 year-old powerPC G5 tower just sprints along as if I bought it yesterday.
I bought the kids a used eMac !!YESSS and eMac!! for $250 shipped 2 years ago and they haven’t layed hands on the PCs since.
@ Shadowself,
Among other things, performance also includes waiting 5 to 10 minutes every time you turn on your PC while the A-V software downloads, installs and sometimes reboots for updates.
PC Performance also includes setting aside time for defraging the hard drives, doing system wide malware searches, rebuilding the Registry and scanning incoming and outgoing e-mail and attachments.
Then there are zero day exploits that shut you down and take up to 2 or 3 days to get fixed.
Performance is much more than frame rates on a stupid game.
Number 3 on the list is the truest of all Shadowself!
Power is more than mere ‘speed’, it’s reliability – and trust. I trust doing more jobs on my Mac than I could ever dream of trusting to a Windows PC.
Why? Because doing the same jobs would cause the PC to crash, and cause me stress and extra work.
IT is the witch beckoning you into the gingerbread house
so…that would make all pc users pudgy, greedy scandinavians?
@Big Al
“Among other things, performance also includes waiting 5 to 10 minutes every time you turn on your PC while the A-V software downloads, installs and sometimes reboots for updates.”
While no one wants to run AV this is exaggerated.
“PC Performance also includes setting aside time for defraging the hard drives, doing system wide malware searches, rebuilding the Registry and scanning incoming and outgoing e-mail and attachments”
This is also exaggerated. Defragging was key to Windows of old. Rebuilding the registry? do you mean regclean tools?
“Then there are zero day exploits that shut you down and take up to 2 or 3 days to get fixed.”
Yes zero day viruses suck, but 2-3 days is only if you have completely incompetent IT people.
“Performance is much more than frame rates on a stupid game.”
this is the only thing you said I agree with.
For perspective. I own 6 Macs and am typing this on one now. I love Macs. But the only good purpose for a Mac in the enterprise right now is as a glorified email/document machine. Without client/server enterprise class software abilities it’s useless. You end up running Windows in a VM anyway (to accommodate your software) and being trapped with the same problem.
@spitspot. Have you looked at xTuple? http://www.xtuple.com/
Yup! We sure did. It doesn’t do half the things we need it to do. In addition we do R and D with many devices and software that simply have zero Mac support. And there is no way to use a Mac to run laser markup stations, depaneling, and pick n place machines. I spose I could give a Mac to the receptionist. But she doesn’t have Internet access anyway and she would have to run Windows in a VM anyway to use Outlook and the Exchange server. There is zero chance in hell I would switch from Exchange to a send mail system.