Mac v. Microsoft TCO

NickFitz writes "MacWorld UK has some comments from industry analysts on the question of whether Total Cost of Ownership, Microsoft's favourite metric, is lower for Apple Mac versus Windows. The MS website has no figures to refute the claim that 'An Apple technician may cost twice as much, but he comes to see you half as often.'" Bottom line: neither platform is the clear winner.

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Re:In the Mac world

[MoneyT]

No, there is not a lot of software in the Mac world


Prove it.

But none of that software matters!

[Anonymous Coward]

The standard "Mac zealot" response when it is pointed out that the machine can't do something a PC can:

"but no one wants to do that!"

So, you have the schism between mac and PC: "we can't do that because no one wants to!" vs "You want to do THAT obscure task? Yes, we can handle it".

The Mac user might retort: "With Virtual PC, we can do all the PC stuff!".

That is like saying that a screwdriver can do all kinds of different things because you can tape a Leatherman to the handle of it.

"Macs just work" but not really

[kfs27]

everyone loves to say macs just work....but in the business world that's definately not the case. the office apps don't open docs properly on the mac. don't have the same featureset. the web pages out there that corporate people use don't work properly in safari or IE or mozilla or firebird or whatever the hell else browser you wanna use. there is no perfect interoperability between fonts and documents in word and other apps. the adobe apps still crash a lot on graphic designers. the move to OSX set back all software vendors a lot. and so i don't think the mac will be a viable solution to interoperate with pc's or corporate environments for at least 3 years.