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Re:The Lightness of Windows by gjsman-1000 on Monday June 28, 2021 @12:53PM (#27664314)
Exactly. From a business' perspective (and according to IBM's own study so this isn't conjecture), Macs are significantly cheaper in the long term, and only slightly more expensive in the short term if even.

Also, when it comes to management for a small or even medium sized business, look at Apple's approach to management: https://www.fleetsmith.com . Dead simple pricing, dead simple UI, and they provision your devices out of the box without any manual setup. You can just buy 50 MacBooks, Apple will automatically ship them set up to your employees for no charge, and you'll pay a several bucks a month per device for management.

Now compare that to how you manage a Windows deployment. By comparison, it's unintelligible. You need to upgrade every device to Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise as part of a contract to join a domain, set up a domain server with Active Directory to have a user store, add connects to connect the Directory to the Domain which may or may not require a Windows Server, which may or may not require the arbitrary Windows Server CALs, and then you have to manually set up and wipe each device out of the box unless you managed to get a special deal with the OEM...

Re:The Lightness of Windows by crooked-v on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:01PM (#27665247)
> and only slightly more expensive in the short term if even

As I found with Lenovo and their bizarre continued use of 1080p as a baseline everywhere in CURRENT_YEAR, if you specifically go looking for laptops with even just 1440p displays the prices quickly inflate towards Apple levels.

Re:The Lightness of Windows by MangoCoffee on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:04PM (#27665294)
maybe large enterprises see Macs are cheaper but all i see is Windows pc in small to mid size companies.
Re:The Lightness of Windows by dijit on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:26PM (#27666583)
You’ll see it in large companies too; there is heavy inertia and quite a bit of lock-in on the windows ecosystem.