My mind is closed? I’ve put several companies on the Internet, had thousands of users and one data center had over 400 servers and another had a mainframe and 200 servers to support along with a backup data center that mirrored the one in Sacramento. I’ve been doing this a long time and to get a lecture from someone who probably has one Mac is a joke. Let me see you walk in my shoes, I can damn well walk in yours.
I’d like some clarification on the Fortune 500 who have Macs. I’m don’t think they would up and change their data centers to run Macs; I doubt they did a forklift upgrade and what about apps and especially custom apps? So what is it, they have one Mac in the art department?
Absolutely your mind is closed. This post proves it.
Me? I frankly doubt you could walk in my shoes. I'm a business and cross platform computer consultant. I've owned and operated a business in that field for 35 years. You couldn't do it because know zero about Macs. I have experience as well in setting up and managing several multi-platform networks for businesses, small to medium size non-profits, schools, publishers—including two newspapers and three magazines, and many professional offices, including one I manage now as a consultant, that has a mix of Mac OSX, Windows 7, and Linux, doing work from general office all the way to 3D tomographic radiography, CADCAM, and HD Video editing. . . Now 99% on Macs. The computers that created the MOST network problems were the Windows PCs—they were constantly randomly crashing the network. . . We removed them and put them out. Anything that absolutely required a Windows solution now runs in a sandbox VM on a Mac. No more crashing network.
I have many more than "one" Mac, and work with various versions of Windows (XP, 7 and 8.1), Linux, Mac OSX 9 Mavericks and it's underlying UNIX. . . and my company and I have been doing IT for over 35 years. My main Mac runs virtual machine versions of ALL of those OSes except UNIX simultaneously in sandboxes so I can serve my clients. Even my MacBook Air has several Virtual Machines at my beck and call so I can bring them up to attempt to duplicate an issue for a client, or step through with them showing how to do something. The vast majority of problems and my company's income comes from those clients running Windows.
I find it amusing to be lectured by someone who apparently knows NOTHING about a computer, the Mac, that more and more people are buying, and is running one of the four certified POSIX compliant TradeMarked UNIX operating systems. . . and who seems proud of that ignorance! Everything you posted on the Mac is at least a decade and a half out of date. Save your ignorance of the Mac platform for someone you can bamboozle.
The good news, Lx, is that ignorance is curable. Get a Mac and start learning.