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Originally Posted by Deschodt
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 ;-)
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 !
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Our environment is about the same size and we run mixed as well. Probably more like 1% Macs, though. All the executives have macs and many of the IT staff prefer to work on a Mac. I have a macbook pro that I use for work. It's pretty seamless nowadays especially with so many enterprise applications being web based. I run VM's on mine for development work which requires Windows.
Funny story - we are in the middle a huge project requiring MS professional services. At any one time we have about 15 field engineers on site and the majority of them use Macs. Also, we hired an ex-MS professional services engineer as a contractor and even he uses macs.