Anonymous

U.S.

IT consultant - cross platform specialist

"They were also three times more expensive to maintain than the PCs we had to get in the experts all the time to help out."

Wow... something was definitely wrong at IPC Media. Did they develop core competence in dealing with Macs, or did they pass it off to outsiders each time a problem had to be solved? Study after study points to lower cost of ownership on the Mac platform overall. This comment lends one to believe either Macs are hard to maintain (false) or IPC Media didn't want to bother maintaining the Macs themselves (more likely).

With Mac OS X, Macs are even easier maintain - they also easily integrate with many platforms, especially if there already exists some UNIX/Linux experience. Even still, IT support still has to learn something about the systems for which they are tasked to maintain.