Monday, February 21
gapingvoid: windows vs macintosh etc.
gapingvoid: windows vs macintosh etc.:
windows vs macintosh etc.I've already posted a couple of replies to this blog entry, and I decided to expound a little more here on my site. Why not? It's my site!
1. For sake of argument, imagine two companies, 'Startup A' and 'Startup B'.
2. Imagine both are virtually identical, with virtually identical markets, products, intellectual capital, payroll etc.
3. Imagine both have just received identically large amounts of startup capital from their VCs.
4. Now imagine that both just bought an identical number of brand new computers for their entire staff. One chose Windows, one chose Macintosh.
5. Now ask yourself, basing it only on what I told you, which one do you think is the most likely to still be in business in five years?
6. Be honest.
The response for the most part are correct, as far as I'm concerned. The platform really doesn't make a difference. It's the actual software being used, and if it's just MS Office, Photoshop, and general desktop publishing, then I would be pushing for a PC platform - myself. I know PCs best. I don't think somebody wants to pay me a bunch of money to learn Macs so that I can support them.
I'm reminded of the Macs that the Division of Securities has, and the problem of connecting to the AS/400 was a problem for them (it was never a problem for the PCs, imagine that…) up until we got Ethernet up and running on the AS/400 and somebody found an 5250 emulation package for the Macs. Then the whole department upgrades to 100Mb (maybe even 1Gb, I forget), and the Macs have issues connecting because now there's too much traffic on the net (even though they are connected by a switch!) for them to get a connection to the AS/400. That happened right as I was leaving. The ended up putting a router in, and I'm not so sure that the real reason for that was so that they could get their own independant connection to the Internet. It sounds fishy to me, since Ethernet is a standard that's been around for way too long to even think about the issues that were supposedly raised at that time. If I had still been the Network Supervisor at the time, I doubt that I would have let it happen.
I dislike Macs. That's a personal preference, not a professional preference. I think that Apple was (and for that matter still is) arrogant and that their whole plan of attack is going to burn them in the end! Even as they reach more and more 52 week highs. Sigh. They've managed to keep a complete monopoly on their hardware, using their software to push the sales of their hardware. The iPod is making them money, even though (supposedly) they are loosing money on selling music through iTMS. At least that little piece works on most platforms.
Then there are those who think that Windows is the worst choice
, but I disagree. I lose much more time with hardware than I ever do with software. Maybe that's my curse.Updated image links to new site 3/19/2008. Relevant Link Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 2/21/2005 04:19:00 PM
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