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To: dhs12345
Businesses don’t use Mac products because they are very expensive when compared to a PC.

Uh...no.

While you can buy low end Window's machines, especially laptops, you get what you pay for.

Mac doesn't serve the low end market.

When you compare feature to feature and especially the quality of the build, Macs are about the same price.

Take into consideration total cost of ownership - especially tech time - and Macs are actually cheaper for a business.

BTW, I was a certified Microsoft Network Administrator that made his money being tech support. When I opened my own imprinted sportswear business, I opted for Macs. The few Windows PCs I must have for production use give me more problems than all my Macs combined.

It's not just me. Check out this article about IBM:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3131906/apple-mac/ibm-says-macs-are-even-cheaper-to-run-than-it-thought.html

55 posted on 07/11/2018 12:06:20 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: Crusher138
There is the pie in the sky world and there is the real world.

Businesses will never use Apple computers at the same level as they use PCs. This is a fact.... unless Mac come down in cost (for the system and the software).

Maybe this analogy is more descriptive — the PC is like Fords original Model T to consumers. It was cheap to produce, widely available, and very cheap to purchase, maintain, and upgrade. Plus parts are readily available and best of all you can change the oil yourself. Heck you can even rebuild your transmission along the side of the road.

MAC computers are like the foreign sports car of the same vintage — expensive to purchase, expensive to maintain, and expensive to upgrade. You may have to change the oil less frequently but, when you do, the oil change is very expensive. Plus, there is the risk that you will not be able to purchase replacement parts in the near because of planned obsolescence.

The vintage sports car is not targeted at the average consumer but the fringe folks with extra cash.

Plus, it is the cheap PC that has made computers spread far and wide and just like Fords Model T, made the car a fixture in everyone’s garage; a PC is in everyone’s home, too.

58 posted on 07/11/2018 1:19:50 PM PDT by dhs12345
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