Employee at Fortune 200 company here. This article reflects our experience as well. We have our own video production unit and those guys have been using Macs for years. More recently we've gotten into iOS app development which has necessitated Macs in IT. That's when things started taking off - lots of our IT teams not doing iOS app development started getting Macs.
We've had the same experience as mentioned in the article - those teams using Macs are more productive and require less support. The only guys not running Macs are those doing legacy .NET support or those who simply don't want to - we're not forcing anyone to use a Mac.
This new generation of Macs could really be a game-changer because the Apple Tax has largely evaporated - especially for large enterprises. That drives the TCO even lower and if these machines perform that much better than your standard-issue enterprise HP or Dell laptop then that may help the Mac break out of our IT organization.
Does that mean my organization will become a Mac shop? No. But neither is IBM. We'll still have engineers needing a beefy CAD workstation. We'll still have people needing to run Windows-based proprietary software. Still, I could see 60%-70% switching to a Mac and our company saving a lot of money by their doing so. That's nothing to sneeze at.
We've had the same experience as mentioned in the article - those teams using Macs are more productive and require less support. The only guys not running Macs are those doing legacy .NET support or those who simply don't want to - we're not forcing anyone to use a Mac.
This new generation of Macs could really be a game-changer because the Apple Tax has largely evaporated - especially for large enterprises. That drives the TCO even lower and if these machines perform that much better than your standard-issue enterprise HP or Dell laptop then that may help the Mac break out of our IT organization.
Does that mean my organization will become a Mac shop? No. But neither is IBM. We'll still have engineers needing a beefy CAD workstation. We'll still have people needing to run Windows-based proprietary software. Still, I could see 60%-70% switching to a Mac and our company saving a lot of money by their doing so. That's nothing to sneeze at.