Like what?
I was doing highly customized submittals and presentations to win multi-million dollar projects. The president of the largest service bureau in town took me to see the prototype of the new Fiery printer driver. I told him to buy it and he did. I used it the day it was delivered to print a submittal for a $29 million project, one which I had worked on at home on my Mac every night until 4 a.m. For two weeks. We won that job. :-)
Macs have always had more strength in the graphics functions, and my work on this project isn’t a testimonial to Mac’s strengths. My firm was 100% DOS oriented, and I had to do time and functions tests to convince the IT manager to allow me to buy Macs for the marketing department. I was very objective, because I didn’t want to spend money that wasn’t necessary. Even word processing functions fell behind my Mac in tests. I am not a good typist. The marketing coordinators under me were promoted from the secretarial ranks, and most could type 120 wpm. They couldn’t edit a document or create and type a new one as fast as I could. My time tests won the battle.
Until that point, I was telling my clients that they had to go with Macs to do the kind of things I was doing.
Like what? Be specific.
High end graphics and presentations. Mac territory.
After Win 95 was released, I told them they could do it on their Windows computers, but not as easily.
When it comes to multitasking and memory management, Mac's SUCKED until the latter half of the 1990's (then it was too late). The "not as easily" is Apple's slogan yet I have never really seen it demonstrated in real life.
The multi-tasking point is right on. I haven’t been able to do that until OS X. Quite often I have three computers working on my tasks. With OS X, I have more multi-tasking ability.
Although I do have few Mac clients, my only callers for tech support are Windows users, and it is usually about Windows issues and has nothing to do with my solution. Mac users never have to call. They just do it.
You have more windows users AND Windows does and supports FAR MORE opinions than the Mac and that is the reason for most support issues IMHO.
Not so, IMHO. My Windows uses are scared to death of their computers and are even more scared to call in their IT guys. Because I am so kind and gracious, they call me for help before they call the mean-spirited and overworked IT staff.
Why are you so focused on putting Mac users and Macs down?
I'm not. I have not put down the Mac or Mac users - I have only made comment related to nonsense Mac propaganda. Mac fanatics TRY to box everybody into that trap if we don't buy the Mac propaganda. I can only go on by my real world experience. Macs need about as much support as Windows if you take into consideration the limited opinions you have on the Mac - if Windows could support the same amount of very limited opinions as the Mac, windows would seem rock solid too.
You see, we Mac users also don’t like being put into a box. I use both platforms, but my preference is Mac. In my work, it doesn’t matter because it is cross-platform, so I can choose the system that gives me the least headaches. I am working now on adding XML functionality to my solution, and I can also do anything that is Windows-centric because I can run Windows on my Mac. This Mac solution developer is about to ink a deal for a big Windows based software company to sell my solution as part of theirs, and they don’t see any problem with the fact that I prefer to work on a Mac. It hasn’t stopped us from communicating, sharing files, viewing Webex presentations or synching data. I still love my Mac. :-)