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Originally Posted by Supz
No one in real life business uses MACs unless it is for design/architecture/engineering on the desktop side. Every business runs on a Microsoft Active Directory server for user accounts with groups and permissions. They all use MS Exchange for email. And most companies run all of the business applications, such as accounting software etc on windows servers. Very few do it on Unix unless they have special database needs.
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The topic is about laptops, not desktops. I agree many, especially large, companies use the setup you mentioned, but it's 2011 and most IT startups and modern companies use cloud based setups.
Now compare a windows user on the setup you describe above having to login to his work's outlook email on his windows laptop from home. By the time that user is finally ready to write or reply to his first email I already did 10 of them on my MacBook and my company gmail.
For users on this forum, who mainly work just for themselves or for modern it companies, a cloud setup with a MacBook laptop just makes more sense if you care about optimizing your business as much as possible.
As for "mac is for dumb users" that don't know what they are doing. I have worked with windows all my life, I even already used PCs before windows even existed, I have worked with every windows system, including servers. I used to manage our own webservers (worked with freebsd and later slackware). I have always built and hardware upgraded my own computers. I am not some dumb user or newbie teen that doesn't know what he is doing. I was always very sceptic about Macs, until I actually tried one last year, and now I will never go back. Times have changed and remember we are talking about laptops here (even though I use my macbook as desktop replacement as well), there is simply no reason for people to stick with Windows laptops. Of course you can built a system with much better specs for less money and run linux, but for most regular users that's just not realistic.
I am positive if the topic starter would get a MacBook he would be coming back here and post something like "damn, I wish I had known this much sooner". That's what I hear from everyone that finally makes the switch.