IT-Enquirer has a three-part special on Mac OS X 10.4: Part 1, 2 and 3. Update: I declare the comments section on this news item to be a disaster zone. It can't be saved. Just stay away.
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But 18 month turn around? Not for the average business!
What company do you work for that still has an exuberant amount for spending on IT.
Most US companies have been making news for the past few years on IT lay-offs and just plain cutting and new IT related purchases.
I have worked for IBM, PWC, on the Global scale, and then also for some companies with less then 1000 employees, and also for companies with around 75 - 100 employees.
Most all these companies still have PC's running Win 95. Old beater PC's doing lighter jobs, but every company I know has newer PC's and older PC's. With the average of PC being 4 - 6 years old. They can last as long as MAC's can and probably percentage wise do!
But the older PC's cannot handle the newer OSes for Windows. However the few Linux boxes we are starting to use for the desktop work fine. We are not using the new KDE for them (too resource intensive) but are using the FVWM manager and it runs Open Office just as fast as the newer MAC's and Windows XP run MS office.
Now on the other hand, I have heard that the older MAC's can run the newer OS X pretty well.
But the MAC people I know with MAC’s replace them for the same reasons their PC counterparts do, They want the bigger one, the newer one, the faster one, seldom is it that they have to, they just find the excuses. Me included. My ACER 486 is still running as a firewall, print server and file server in my home set up.
Tell me over all they have fewer problems, but they do have their problems and surprisingly even cheap hardware can last a long time. But don’t dish out 18 months.
Marc, you have a lot of points there!
But 18 month turn around? Not for the average business!
What company do you work for that still has an exuberant amount for spending on IT.
Most US companies have been making news for the past few years on IT lay-offs and just plain cutting and new IT related purchases.
I have worked for IBM, PWC, on the Global scale, and then also for some companies with less then 1000 employees, and also for companies with around 75 - 100 employees.
Most all these companies still have PC's running Win 95. Old beater PC's doing lighter jobs, but every company I know has newer PC's and older PC's. With the average of PC being 4 - 6 years old. They can last as long as MAC's can and probably percentage wise do!
But the older PC's cannot handle the newer OSes for Windows. However the few Linux boxes we are starting to use for the desktop work fine. We are not using the new KDE for them (too resource intensive) but are using the FVWM manager and it runs Open Office just as fast as the newer MAC's and Windows XP run MS office.
Now on the other hand, I have heard that the older MAC's can run the newer OS X pretty well.
But the MAC people I know with MAC’s replace them for the same reasons their PC counterparts do, They want the bigger one, the newer one, the faster one, seldom is it that they have to, they just find the excuses. Me included. My ACER 486 is still running as a firewall, print server and file server in my home set up.
Tell me over all they have fewer problems, but they do have their problems and surprisingly even cheap hardware can last a long time. But don’t dish out 18 months.