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Originally Posted by kamm
Trust me, being the stereotypical Mac-fan clearly explains your attitude towards "IT guys" (whatever that means) - FYI I'm the chief of technology here, I built up this 150+ machines (both workstations rendering farm included), centralized HPC storage etc system architecture of ours from a 5-people-in-a-room-with-a-desktop level over the past 8-9 years (and yes, we do have some Mac Pros and Macbook Pros.)
Beyond decades of personal use (first Mac in my life was a IIc) it's based on my 10+ years real world professional experience of mine with all things Apple. You know, something that - based on your post - I bet you can't claim.
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...get a clue.
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Kamm:
I'll see your "
10+ years real world professional experience of mine with all things Apple" and raise you a decade. Plus a Ph.D. (while we're tossing around semi-relevant credentials).
My personal experience of "IT guys" is that most of them (but not all, by any means) "know" a lot of stuff about the Mac -- both hardware and software -- that just aren't so.
Meanwhile, the computing facilities guys at my university tell me that they'd be just as happy if all their users got Macs instead of PCs. They find that they get 10x fewer support issues per user from the Mac folks than from the PC folks. (And about 4x fewer from the various Linux folks than from the PC folks.) Of course, we're not exactly the most usual set of users (Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science -- in a 3-way tie for top program in the world) so your mileage may vary. But my experience, my extended family's experience, and the local "IT guys" experience seems to be quite different from yours.
So, with all due respect, perhaps
you should "get a clue."
Xenophon