Re: [Fwd: RE: [WinMac] please read A.S.A.P (easy but important)]]

Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Tue, 02 Feb 1999 17:58:09 -0500

        Surprisingly, I agree with Yasar's evangelizing the iMac for certain
situations... To a point.

        The iMac is actually quite good *in a corporate environment* when
connected to a "strong" LAN, i.e with heavy duty 100Base-TX ethernet and NT
servers to back it up. Where the iMac sucks is for home use, i.e the
features that make it so good for corporate desktops (no floppy, built-in
10/100 ethernet) make it lousy for home users.

        Cheers!
        Dan

At 10:05 AM 2/2/99 +0100, Yasar wrote:
>hi jacques,
>
>jacques wrote:
>>
>> So your mission if you choose to accept it, would be to provide me with
>> as many reasons you can think of to go mac instead of pc.
>>
>maybe the appended text helps you (found at
>http://www.autsch.de/netzwerktechniker.html).
>
>rgds
>Yasar
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I thought you might be interesting in reading the following message
> exchange. This message was received on IBM support web site and was
> passed on to me by a fellow Mac afficionado, who works for them.
>
> It seems like some Wintel PC administartors are starting to feel the
> heat of the competition from iMacs .....
>
> Well, if businesses start switching back to macintoshes there will be
> many of those administrators unemployed soon!
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I am the network manager of a mid-size company. We are currently fitted
> with PCs (around 65 running windows 95, of which about half are from
> IBM) running on ethernet.
> Everything was fine until last week, or until top management starting
> talking about replacing all of them with iMacs.
>
> In fact, they have started bringing in 2 of those machines on monday.
> This was for a test, and I was sure they were going to be sent
> back right away, since they are incompatible with our PCs. But, to my
> surprise the secretaries were very happy with them, and set them up on
> the ethernet by themselves in about 10 minutes. The worst thing is that
> they have Office 98 and can access and exchange transparently files
> with the other PCs ....
>
> The problem is the last batch of PCs we got (3 machines from Compaq and
> Windows 95) took us half a day to configure and set up. Top management
> couldn't believe it when the secretaries got their machine up and
> running so quickly.
> Also, they like the fact there is no floppy drive, so they say, nobody
> can copy software for home use ....
>
> We are afraid they might really replace all the PC with iMacs and if
> those machine are so easy to set up and maintain, I might be out of
> work soon.
>
> Can you help me, or give me some ammo against Apple macintoshes
>--
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