I was reading an article in CIO Magazine, Eight Financial Reasons Why You Should Use Mac OS, which in summary stated:
- Macs bring a better overall value proposition
- Macintosh licensing fees are cheaper
- The Mac desktop spawns fewer calls to the help desk
- Mac users are more productive workers
- Macs last longer
- Mac OS is more secure
- Mac is just as cost-effective as Windows to manage and administer
- Add Macs while hanging on to your investments in other OSes
The fourth point was particularly interesting. In a study conducted by Gistics:
Among many other findings, the authors concluded that Mac creative professionals were producing $26,000 more each in annual revenues for their employers than their Windows counterparts.
I can confirm that finding with my own experience. For example, I was reading a blog where the word Bigot was used. I right clicked on the word, selecting lookup, and up popped the Dictionary provided with Leopard that provided a dictionary definition, thesaurus, as well as a the corresponding entry in Wikipedia. That was easy.
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