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The CIO posting Windows vs. Linux vs. OS X is well done, meaning not a vendor sponsored piece of fluff, and an interesting read. The bottom line is:

“I used to think that the Macintosh was something used by free spirits just to be different,” he says. “Now I realize the Mac has such superior human factor engineering that it’s used by people because they can be more productive. If Apple comes up with a 2- or 2.5-pound 12-inch-screen laptop that runs cool, has better integration with Exchange, and if Vista turns out to be the beast it could be, then I probably will move to a Mac.”

Read the article to find out about the ands, buts, and ifs.

…John

The Forbes posting Special Report: Wireless is running the following stories:

Is The iPhone Insecure?
Nine iPhone Alternatives
Apple Upgrades iPhone
Why You May Not Want An iPhone
Apple Underwhelms
Bracing For The iPhone
Is Apple’s iPhone Rollout Smart Business?

This is probably more than you ever wanted to know about the Apple iPhone rollout.

…John

The Mac News World posting Migrating to the Mac Infrastructure tells the story of a SMB (Small and Medium Business) experiences migrating to a Mac.

• Many SMB entrepreneurs have discovered that switching to Apple from Microsoft incurs far less hidden costs than anticipated and brings productivity and cost savings despite slightly higher purchase price on Mac computer tags.
• Businesses that do not require specialized software from an existing Windows PC configuration will not find hidden costs in adopting the Mac infrastructure …
• “All the new hardware paid for itself in two years. Also, we didn’t have to pay for annual support fees to clean out adware-ladden hard drives. That was a savings of several thousand dollars for each PC,”
• “I figure I’ve saved at least five days so far in administrative time, which more than makes up for the price of the new computers”
• “Interoperability is fine. Adobe PDF and Microsoft Office files transfer between Mac and PC seamlessly. Mac Mail has a checkbox to send Windows-compatible attachments, which seems to solve attachment problems,” Robbins said, adding that he also uses Gmail, which is platform-independent.

…John

I‘m lusting after the new Apple 8-Core MacPro.

What seems like long, long ago, I enjoyed running my stuff on 32 processor Sequent UNIX boxes. Each processor was substandard compared to todays chips. Yet, being able to fork several processes connected by pipes, was a really quick way of utilizing SMP (Symmetric multiprocessing).

Fortunately, some contemporary products I use everyday for rendering vivid photographs, such as Adobe Photoshop and DXO Labs software, take advantae of SMP. My workflow would be much faster with the Intel 8-Core box compared to my G4 2-Core box.

…John