Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 6th Nov 2004 21:17 UTC
Mac OS X 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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mac TCO
by burns210 on Sun 7th Nov 2004 04:15 UTC

"It is a shame that MAC wants to screw themselves and cannot see the larger picture.

It is like $14.00 for a cheese burger at one place with a designer wrapper, when you can go next door and get another cheese burger for $1.00 in a plain wrapper. "

But how does a McDonald's plain cheeseburger taste compared to a Red Robin Double Cheeseburger(or your fav burger joint?)...

Yes, Macs cost more. For a true PC workstation, compared to a iMac or even low G5, they cost a decent chunk more. The flip side is, the man hours it takes to deal with Windows issues like spyware, viruses and trojans are very near zero on mac. I work in an enterprise IT department that is Netware/Windows with zero macs. Windows TCO has almost nothing to do with initial cost. That is what the T is for, the long term cost of a system in use for 3 to 5 years.

I write this from my 12" powerbook. I use PCs far more often, however.