CNN is getting all up in Apple’s grill with their hot feature, “Why Macs still aren’t right for most businesses.” And, like most stories about Macs in business, they usually find a negative slant, ask a bunch analysts what they think about Macs and then find some anecdotes. Instead, Jonathan Blum rocks out with his iMac out and tries the Mac for a while, talks to people who love them, and then says “Be skeptical.”
In months of side-by-side comparisons for critical business functions like word processing, e-mail and troubleshooting, sometimes the iMac was faster, and sometimes it wasn’t. Yes, Apples can be easier to use, but expect real trouble with some applications, such as syncing your Apple to not-Apple portable devices like BlackBerrys and smartphones. I and my assistants had terrible problems getting all of our company programs to work properly.
Shitfire! Your assistants! I’m sure syncing the Blackberry with any OS requires a dedicated IT team but if you and your assistants couldn’t Google “OS X Blackberry Sync” then it must have gotten crucial down at BlumCo. In fact, the only thing he couldn’t use was GoToMyPC which could be remedied by having an IT staff that actually knew what a VPN was.
Yes, more businesses can now go to Macs – I would say they now make sense for maybe 20 companies out of 100, up from just 5 a few years back. But for the rest of us – particularly those that need basic computing and basic features – Apple is still more expensive and simply not worth the integration headaches for the average small shop.
Amen, Jonathan. Your extensive experience in systems integration definitely came into play here and considering most front end systems are web-based you really need some hard core APPZ to rock that next spreadsheet. We’re fanboys, sure, but give me some better ammunition.
But then again, maybe this is just linkbait. Maybe I fell into his trap. Maybe… naw. He’s a choad.
“I and my assistants had terrible problems getting all of our company programs to work properly.”
That says more about the company’s application development team — and his total lack of computer skills — than it does about Apple.
Well somebody has to try to offset CGs pro-Mac bias
Cnet is just doing their small part
Nobody reads their stuff anyways
You guys are probably part to blame for me yearning to buy a MacBook in recent months
damn it
i meant CNN, not Cnet
no one reads their stuff either
give in, luke
Buy me one my Dark Lord of Mac Sith
Geez, the guy really tried a long-term experiment to see how it worked, and gave honest feedback. But since you don’t like his answer, he must be an idiot, right? I personally plunked down close to $2k to buy a Macbook Pro, and I have had numerous problems with it. The lack of software is still an issue for most people, whether you guys want to admit it or not. Plus out of 3 Macbooks that we bought at work, all three had to go back for hardware repairs under warranty. So I am not impressed with Apple’s hardware either.
Why can’t you just admit that it’s not for everyone, and stop calling people idiots if their cost/benefit analysis doesn’t come out the same as yours?
I agree, Rob. Use whatever you want to help tame the savageness of man. I think Biggs was more annoyed with the unsophisticated tone of the article, like calling e-mail and word processing “business critical” applications, as if you can’t run Office (or Google Docs) on a Mac.
But like I said, people should use whatever they want. It’s their money/time, not mine.
-na
Whether or not the hardware is good, this review was horrible. How can one be so negative about time machine, the first backup software that is seemless and works for all users? How can one complain about Spaces, a feature that is for power users and can VERY EASILY be turned off entirely?
This article suggests the writer and his staff are not very qualified administrators and the tone seems awfully like the goal was to knock Apple down a peg.
You people are all idiots because your cost/benefit analysis doesn’t come out the same as mine.
Oh wait, you just asked that no one do that.
My bad.