Yeah Windows has problems. Whatever. It’s fast, it’s smooth, it’s actually pretty stable (I haven’t seen a blue screen in years), it’s cheap (if you’re at all connected to the industry it’s free legally), and there’s tons of software available. Sure you don’t get to be snooty about your OS, but only a pathetic loser takes pride in the OS on their computer anyway, and you wants to be one of them. Take the money you save buying a PC and go to the liquor store and learn to be snooty about something cool like scotch.
For less than a bottle of Lagavulin, One can sandbox your Windows OBTW you will find out what the The ROI is far better on a Mac than a PC any PC. Networking is absolutely seamless with OS X. But you are an IT consultant, do what you please.You can buy two or three Fiats or Yugos
for the price of a Ford or Chevy.
you can port your entire windows machine
into VMware Fusion window.
One can cut and paste across machines.
Share file systems between machines.
Share I/O devices across machines.
machine from the Internet.
technical term:
Benutzerfreundlichkeit means.
You led off with a really bad example there, given that Fiats are generally more reliable and comfortable than Fords and Chevys. Cheaper and better. Kind of proved my point actually.
I mentioned the whole pretending to be Windows thing. But as I said, good luck getting support. You call up your software guys with a problem, they ask what your system is, you say VMware, they say “we never tested that”, and now you’re basically on your own.
Windows is plenty user friendly. I know all the Mac weenies insist it isn’t, but the user base proves them wrong.
Networking is absolutely seemless in Windows. Plug in the network and go. Hardly ever have to install drivers, and even then, install the drivers, plug in and go. The only time it’s ever rough is if the domain itself has been setup funky, and that’s the admins fault.
Not an IT consultant. QA engineer, 16 years. I’ve worked professionally with every version of Windows since 3.11, and dealt with plenty of not-Windows. Most of the not-Windows OSes are overrated. I remember System 7, that was the day I realized Mac-weenies are full of it. Horrible OS, my wife could crash it because she typed too fast, menus were in persistent (talk about not user friendly), and the print buffer on the big Apple printers (don’t try using something else) was like half a page AND the print progress dialog was system modal. They’ve come a long way since then, OSX is pretty nice, but it’s not nice enough for the price.