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  • 1 Posted by shadowman_26 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:15PM EDT Report Abuse

    Now were gonna have the Mac fanboys on here ridculing that Mr. Blum's article is just a figment of his imagination. What gets me is why any business would venture into a computer that only has a 5% market share.

  • 2 Posted by weirdalyankovick on Thu Sep 3, 2009 10:42PM EDT Report Abuse

    How about screw Apple(I am sorry long time apple fan) and screw Micro-$oft(always hated) and GO Linux!!!

  • 4 Posted by d3mig on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:33PM EDT Report Abuse

    Macs have 2 button mouses (mice?). They just don't look like it. By default the right click does the same as the left click, but it's very easy to change them to right click just like a PC mouse (short cut menus etc). The hardest thing for me to get used to was the close box being on the left side of the screen instead of the right.

  • 5 Posted by hlawlink on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:19PM EDT Report Abuse

    Yea, I never got used to using Macs...it just does not seem as intuitive. The first computer I used was a Mac, but using Windows was just more simple. I do not understand why my schools used Macs. The only probable explanation I can see is just because the computer and screen are together as one . Linux...it feels a lot like windows...but I can't say much since I only used it once. Change is nice sometimes, but I rather just keep to one OS.

  • 6 Posted by sawminn_aung on Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:06PM EDT Report Abuse

    I just happened to drop by to Yahoo! tech for the first time today. And you know what? This first article I read here makes a big ? about the credibility of Yahoo! tech. I first thought I would refute the author's judgement. Then I realize why I should be wasting time arguing on such groundless remarks. Oh, I almost forgot. Ya, there is one, and only one, statement I quite agree. Ask around people who are already using or who have recently switched to a Mac.

  • 7 Posted by sally_1512 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:01PM EDT Report Abuse

    Interesting they think that way since I work in a relatively new company (we've been i business 2 years). The developer team is primarily on Ubuntu. I use Mac with a virtual ubuntu and only one of our developers uses a part time pc desktop. Generally for the rest of the company the default laptop given is a mac book unless the user specifically asks for a windows (always XP *wink*) laptop.

  • 8 Posted by deerparkerpark on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:40PM EDT Report Abuse

    I work in a communications office with two other people. Our office has 3 XP machines and 3 Macs. When we got the Macs each of us started using them and left our PCs behind. After, I'd say, a month, we all went back to using out XP machines. Blackberry's synced ok must of the time, all that sort of stuff was fine...but after month we realized our preference still resided on XP. For our "business" needs, the macs seemed just as productive as PCs, we were just not as productive on them ourselves. The benefits of using a Mac did not outweigh the initial loss in productivity.

  • 9 Posted by andygipsom on Thu Sep 3, 2009 2:54PM EDT Report Abuse

    I think that most of these complaints, especially the switching cost are valid. However, if, "Joe Business," can't deal with the issue of the power button being located in a different place I am not sure how well he may perform at many other simple and common tasks that may arrise during the course of the day.

  • 10 Posted by icguy77 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:22PM EDT Report Abuse

    Why Mac? One good reason: NO VIRUS (last time I checked). Why PC? "Well, everybody owns one, so why don't we?"

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