I'm an IT professional and as a result people around me seek my
advice regarding their home or small business computer setup (don't
have enough time to do *really* complex or critical setups on the
side) Usually I tell people straight that I have very little time to
do computer maintenance. And that I would be pleased to do it for
free it they buy a mac.
I have quite a few Mac owners around me now. They might ask me to add
some feature to their computer, or request a short training, but I
almost never have to repair broken computers, at least on the
software side (The hard drives also fail in Macs of course).
Recently some Linux distros became really user-friendly, so when Mrs
Jones call me "My PC is so sloooooooow to boot, and I can't even
launch Winword anymore since the kids did this or that" in many cases
I can offer a competitive backup-convert-to-Linux-restore package. No
more pirated software. Automatic updates. Ease of use. Peace of mind.
Etc etc.
The most compelling reason to run Windows is relying on some %^&*
piece of win32 software that doesn't like to run in an emulator (but
if it's the case you should really think about a migration plan). I
have a few customers locked-in by such software, they pay me good
money as they have a hard time finding people who are willing/able to
work with their crappy software. I will sacrifice a few rainy
November weekends, and it will pay for the ski vacations.
I can offer "fixed price" system work on Mac OS X or Linux platforms.
I could never do that on Windows, because of bad engineering and too
many caveats.
Fred
On Sep 17, 2006, at 5:26 PM, Marvin Wallace wrote:
I too was a Macintosh user, and then I bought a P.C and found that there is
little difference between the two, the exception being Macs are stupidly
overpriced. P.C's are cheaper faster and have a whole lot more accessories
at a third of the price.
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