[rollei_list] Re: OT : modern computer systems (was : Wanted to Buy Macintosh SE/30)
- From: Frederic Fichter <ffichter@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:06:31 +0200
System 8.x and 9.x were notoriously difficult to maintain.
As often with a system's last iterations.
Fred
On Sep 17, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Javier Perez wrote:
In just about every work environment, there's almost always one nut
who must have a mac and needs it supported! I used to work the
night shift as a supervisor in the computing center in a community
college. I was in charge of 9 labs with about 30 machines and one
mac lab. Because there were lesss users at night I also wound up
doing most of the hardware and software suipport. The Macs were a
nightmare, we had to have duplicates of virtually everything for
them and even though they were reliable they were a pain to update
because they were much slower than the PCs. I can understand how it
that the computers everybody likes as a home user are the ones
everybody hates on the job! I finally convinced the faculty to get
rid of them. They were not missed !
Javier
From: Frederic Fichter <ffichter@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: [rollei_list] OT : modern computer systems (was : Wanted
to Buy Macintosh SE/30)
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:08:01 +0200
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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