I am mixed on the MAC

[LateNightCoder123]

I was just handed a new MacBook Pro and an Iphone at work so i can become familiar with it. Also needed it to test some new applications we are building. I am mixed on my feeling so far. Just seems like the Mac was never intended to be used in a business environment. It is a real pain to integrate into our existing systems. It has a cool factor but just seems to lack something on the professional business side.

[Mark_Wallace]

It's a computer. All new computers need a "breaking in" period, where you configure, tweak, and juggle for a while, until they do what you want them to do. The bad part about the Mac is that you're far more constrained into doing things the way other people like to do them than with Windows or Linux, but in the end, they do the job of a computer -- it's just a tool, after all. Ignore, deactivate, forget, and/or bypass the "cool" stuff; it's worthless. A "cool" hammer won't hit nails in any straighter than an "uncool" one; it's the ability of the mug that's holding it that makes it hit straight. Windows is more of an everyman system, in that it doesn't matter so much what the machine's task as, because it's reasonably easy to bend it into the shape you want -- Granny wants it for e-mail, photos, and Skype? No problem. Business users want to crunch numbers? No problem. Coders want to write code? No problem. With the Mac, just add a week or two to the couple of months it usually takes to make a computer behave the way you want it to behave (unless you want to do only what Steve Jobs & Co. want to do with a computer, and do it their way -- in which case, deduct a month).

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