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Originally Posted by aschen
For work, I use PCs as they (historically anyways) have been the default for technical engineering computation
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Drifting off topic slightly but why not... For the first time, I work in a true mixed environment, Mac + PC, 30000 machines (80%Wintel, 20%Mac). Macs have come a long way in the business world but apparently they're not all the way there yet... In terms of Enterprise AD support, login scripts stuff, parity when it comes to deployment tools (SCCM, BigFix vs Casper), or dev tools, etc... they're not 100% equal yet. Not the Mac's fault necessarily, just a matter of the platform not having been used in that arena as long... But they work well enough to be used side by side - most people pick them because of the form factor (lighter & thinner laptops) and use them to start remote session into their desktop PCs !! Kinda ironic ! They are extremely popular because I can tell they get stolen a lot more, on the order of a 20:1 ratio company wide ! Nobody wants your Dell ;-)
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Originally Posted by 930addict
Actually a home user would do quite well with a $499 mac mini.
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That's what I did when the new MacPro turned out not to be what I wanted... Although I'd recommend the $699 one with a fusion drive. It's fine! I even get retina output out of it... Very pretty !