News - Apple Mac enterprise surge proves durable

[HEXUS]

The iPhone halo effect has even extended to the corporate markets.

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[mrochester]

This is logical really given that Apple have the most to gain from the enterprise market. All of the PC makers are at saturation point already.

[b0redom]

Loads of the Linux sysadmin guys at my last place were getting new Macbook Pros over new Dell enterprise laptops. so it's not really all that surprising.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I know that GE Healthcare having been replacing some of their Dells with Macs. The iMacs are still the most polished all in ones IMHO.

However,on another note GE bought up Amersham Biosciences and have now basically laid off most of their UK workers and transferred the jobs to the US.

Loads of the Linux sysadmin guys at my last place were getting new Macbook Pros over new Dell enterprise laptops. so it's not really all that surprising.

Out of interest were these their personal laptops or the work ones??

[aidanjt]

Yeah, I'd expect them to go with Lenovo's or some other vendor who picks Linux-friendly hardware.

[b0redom]

Out of interest were these their personal laptops or the work ones??

Work ones. TBH the Dells work seamlessly with any of the Linux distros I chucked at it, I just prefer OSX as a desktop environment, and it seems most of the other techies I was working with did too.

Whatever your view of OSX/Linux/Windows, you can't deny that the current gen of MBPs are really well designed and put together.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Work ones. TBH the Dells work seamlessly with any of the Linux distros I chucked at it, I just prefer OSX as a desktop environment, and it seems most of the other techies I was working with did too. .

At least in my experience most of the computer scientists,programmers and sysadmins I know tend to run a Linux distro in preference to OS X or Windows although again YMMV. Some preferred OS X over Linux though.

In fact the only reason many of these people seem to also run Windows on their personal computers is if they game.

Whatever your view of OSX/Linux/Windows, you can't deny that the current gen of MBPs are really well designed and put together.

That is true and if given a decent budget I wouldn't be surprised people would get a MBP. The Mac Air is pretty nifty too.

IMHO, I consider the Lenovo ThinkPads are also quite well built(even NASA uses them on manned missions) and AFAIK they one of the few PC companies doing relatively well.

However,I tend to be more a fan of ToughBooks although these make MBPs look bargain priced in comparison!!