A blog post

Macs in the office

Posted on the 10 March, 2010 at 1:03 am Written by in Blog, internet

At Chilli Chocolate Marketing we have one rule when it comes to computers: when in doubt, get a Mac. We’re undoubtedly in the minority though, as all recent studies show that Microsoft Windows still dominates the Australian corporate desktop.

Tech guru Renai LeMay of Delimiter recently asked a range of industry commentators – including yours truly – about the pros and cons of using Macs in the workplace.

Read the full article: “Apple’s undiscovered country: Macs in the enterprise”

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  • http://dolphinsact.wordpress.com Peter Holland

    I am a bit of a ring in, I used to work with Apple every day, and got the chance to meet and work with some extraordinary people, including a trailblazer in the push for women in ICT, Diana Ryall, who at the time was the MD of Apple Australia. It struck me that if Apple was such a forward thinking company to employ a woman in the top job, then they really were committed to the Australian market.

    We were the first custom designed AppleCentre in Australia, not the same as the other stores, we had a leader who designed the flow and appearance himself, and it was a great store.

    I took a period of exile in the windows wilderness, and returned to Apple with my personal purchases of an iPhone and a Macbook pro. I can run the same apps as my windows colleagues, there is a lotus notes version available, citrix and webex work like a dream, and there is little or no administration required. Back in the early days of the iMac, the high profile company who used apple was Phillips Fox Lawyers – you can’t get more enterprise than that…

  • CCM

    I too spent time in the wilderness, but my experiences with beta builds of Windows Vista brought me back. Now it’s Macs exclusively – Imac with 2nd monitor on the desk, Macbook to take out of the office, Ye Olde G4 as a file server, and Iphone in my pocket.

    I occasionally do something that requires another OS – webserver tweaks to try out under Linux, email campaigns to test in Outlook, stuff like that.. Fine, I just load whatever I need in a Virtual Machine on one of the Macs.

    I have icons for Internet Explorer, Outlook 2007, and Word and Excel (Windows versions) on my Imac’s Dock. It’s not uncommon for me to be running Linux, Windows, and OS X all at the same time on the same machine…

    Simon Garlick (Twitter: @simongarlick)

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