Apple now supporting windows - At Last!!

itmanager4705 · 2014-06-22T17:26:49.000Z

Finally, a use for apple mac in our office:

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rojoloco · 2014-06-22T17:43:56.000Z

I’m surprised you didn’t need an expensive, proprietary adapter for that application…

gabrielle.l · 2014-06-22T17:56:05.000Z

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/483325-mac-now-supports-windows

cpunty · 2014-06-22T17:57:44.000Z

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I’ll just leave this here…

jbroseberry · 2014-06-22T18:34:13.000Z

The only thing we use our mac for is iPad deployment.

keronk · 2014-06-22T19:05:03.000Z

i really don’t

aceofspades · 2014-06-22T19:12:43.000Z

Wow, and its wireless too!

drgort · 2014-06-22T20:39:41.000Z

I shutter what’s next.

scottalanmiller · 2014-06-22T20:47:47.000Z

Chris19delta:

I’ll just leave this here…

Someone did leave it there… Har har.

Rivitir · 2014-06-22T23:09:53.000Z

I knew what this thread was going to have.

We had this pic a while back in the funny pic thread .

chris.hone · 2014-06-23T10:13:39.000Z

Does it open Windows automatically or is there some manual process needed to support the window(s).

maxbrotherwood · 2014-06-23T10:50:59.000Z

Hahahaha…

alexander-hovis · 2014-06-23T10:54:16.000Z

My new toolbox.

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big-green-man · 2014-06-23T10:57:50.000Z

I’ve got to be honest. I have a MacBook Pro for school that I love, and it runs Windows 7 Ultimate via Bootcamp for whatever I can’t do on OSX. It works great, but I’m not sure I’d ever use it in a business setting.

alexander-hovis · 2014-06-23T11:02:34.000Z

Andrew Zwickey:

I’ve got to be honest. I have a MacBook Pro for school that I love, and it runs Windows 7 Ultimate via Bootcamp for whatever I can’t do on OSX. It works great, but I’m not sure I’d ever use it in a business setting.

We have this setup in a business environment. Solely for the purposes of troubleshooting other Mac user’s. We normally only have one but since we are a Theatre/ticketing company all of the show’s that come in, their employee’s always bring in Mac’s. Besides one time a lady brought in her Windows laptop and all of the other employee’s with the show laughed at her.

It was running an i7 with 8GB’s of RAM. Though for some odd reason their “tech” installed Windows XP on it which made all that RAM useless.

patrick-costelloe · 2014-06-23T11:05:22.000Z

I had a MacBook (not pro) a few years ago and really liked it. At the time windows laptops had really poor battery life in comparison and I didn’t trust the build quality. I bought it for about £700 and sold it three years later for £500. Couldn’t have done that with a windows laptop then! A bit different now though with all the ultra books kicking about.

Hated OS X though. Formatted and but windows on it.

big-green-man · 2014-06-23T11:30:28.000Z

Alexander.Hovis:

Andrew Zwickey:

I’ve got to be honest. I have a MacBook Pro for school that I love, and it runs Windows 7 Ultimate via Bootcamp for whatever I can’t do on OSX. It works great, but I’m not sure I’d ever use it in a business setting.

We have this setup in a business environment. Solely for the purposes of troubleshooting other Mac user’s. We normally only have one but since we are a Theatre/ticketing company all of the show’s that come in, their employee’s always bring in Mac’s. Besides one time a lady brought in her Windows laptop and all of the other employee’s with the show laughed at her.

It was running an i7 with 8GB’s of RAM. Though for some odd reason their “tech” installed Windows XP on it which made all that RAM useless.

We have a couple users here who use Macs, and unfortunately, I’m the only IT person here with OSX experience, which is limited when going beyond what a typical user does. Since we only have a couple, I couldn’t see it implemented here, but that’s also probably because we’re in the manufacturing industry, not theatre/ticketing. It makes me chuckle that all the Mac users laugh at the one Windows user, though.

And it’s a shame about all that RAM. Why didn’t they put Windows 7 x64 on it? You can get a license for ~$130 nowadays. It’s getting really cheap.

PaddyC:

I had a MacBook (not pro) a few years ago and really liked it. At the time windows laptops had really poor battery life in comparison and I didn’t trust the build quality. I bought it for about £700 and sold it three years later for £500. Couldn’t have done that with a windows laptop then! A bit different now though with all the ultra books kicking about.

Hated OS X though. Formatted and but windows on it.

That’s one of the things I love about my Mac. It’s really light, but it still feels like it’s built right. The other option my school offers is an entry-level HP laptop, which has horrible battery life and was really cheaply made.

alexander-hovis · 2014-06-23T11:32:53.000Z

Andrew Zwickey:

We have a couple users here who use Macs, and unfortunately, I’m the only IT person here with OSX experience, which is limited when going beyond what a typical user does. Since we only have a couple, I couldn’t see it implemented here, but that’s also probably because we’re in the manufacturing industry, not theatre/ticketing. It makes me chuckle that all the Mac users laugh at the one Windows user, though.

And it’s a shame about all that RAM. Why didn’t they put Windows 7 x64 on it? You can get a license for ~$130 nowadays. It’s getting really cheap.

I let her know that and told her she should pass that information along to her Tech and have him install Windows 7 64-Bit and she would be running circles around those Mac books.

I don’t think they installed Windows 7 in the first place because her “tech” isn’t really a tech but more of a person that is comfortable installing Windows and making electronic purchases.

fmftw · 2014-06-23T11:34:52.000Z

Funny.

big-green-man · 2014-06-23T11:56:16.000Z

Alexander.Hovis:

I don’t think they installed Windows 7 in the first place because her “tech” isn’t really a tech but more of a person that is comfortable installing Windows and making electronic purchases.

That explains it all.