“And YOUR expertise is superior to IBM”
You can go to a Best Buy, genius, and look at prices.
News flash: Some PCs cost more than Macs, most PCs are CHEAPER. That’s one of the reasons more people buy them.
And what type of leftist language baloney is this “Debate over”? Is that like “ the science is settled” to Apple fanatics?
This article is NOT about prices at Best Buy, VanDeKoik. IBM does not buy computers from Best Buy, either Apple Macs or Windows PCs. Nor are they referring to the initial cost to purchase the computer. They and I am discussing the cost to OWN each computer over a period of time, including the cost to support it, run it, and finally dispose of it at end of useful life. In this instance, they are using four years as the useful life of each computer. IBM has compared these costs over that time period and the Apple Mac wins by a considerable amount.
Multiply that by the number of computers they operate and that totals a LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY! Just taking the smaller amount of $273 and multiplying it times 90,000 provides a substantial savings of $24,570,000. If the larger number of $543 per computer, then it's $48,870,000! That's nothing to ignore for IBM's bottom line.
In an earlier article on this subject last year, IBM found that it took ONE IT guy to provide service for every 497 Windows computers. If IBM has 200,000 Windows computers across their 2,800 locations around the world, they must have 403 Windows IT guys to service all those Windows computers. This article states as a fact that they only have to have FIVE (5) IT guys to provide service for 90,000 Mac computers! That's ONE IT GUY for every 18,000 Macs. One Mac IT guy is 36 times more effective and therefore more economical than one Windows IT guy! One Mac guy is worth 36 Windows guys!
IBM also found their employees using Macs were more productive as well.