Did you offer "Whiney Mac Boy" the opportunity to buy a $3,000 Mac system with similar software? Microsoft makes an office suite for Mac which surely also benefits from your non-profit pricing status. InDesign for Mac or PC costs the same, right? So, you'd be left with at least $2,000 in both cases, and I'm pretty sure that for $2,000 you can buy a Mac system which easily competes with anything you could buy that would be called a "PC". The fact that you save on the OS cost from Microsoft is irrelevant re: Apple--they "give" you the OS for "free" with your hardware purchase--no discount required. I think the notion that you can spend $X on a PC vs. Mac and somehow come out way ahead on a PC is almost dead...the fact that you have an employee in your company who wants to blow $8K of your cash isn't Apple's fault...look within, sensei.
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Did you offer "Whiney Mac Boy" the opportunity to buy a $3,000 Mac system with similar software? Microsoft makes an office suite for Mac which surely also benefits from your non-profit pricing status. InDesign for Mac or PC costs the same, right? So, you'd be left with at least $2,000 in both cases, and I'm pretty sure that for $2,000 you can buy a Mac system which easily competes with anything you could buy that would be called a "PC". The fact that you save on the OS cost from Microsoft is irrelevant re: Apple--they "give" you the OS for "free" with your hardware purchase--no discount required. I think the notion that you can spend $X on a PC vs. Mac and somehow come out way ahead on a PC is almost dead...the fact that you have an employee in your company who wants to blow $8K of your cash isn't Apple's fault...look within, sensei.