Smart business owners migrate to Apple’s OS-unlimited Macs

19 years ago

“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,” Jack M. Germain reports for MacNewsWorld. “‘In short, switching to a Mac infrastructure has been far less disruption than I imagined, with far greater usability and far smoother operation,’ Stever Robbins, CEO of the Stever Robbins Company, told MacNewsWorld. He runs a Massachusetts-based business skills consulting firm.”

Germain reports, “Robbins, who founded or was an early team member of nine startup companies over 25 years, switched his company to the Mac side of computing around the end of last year. He has not regretted the decision. He was toying with the idea since Apple released Macs capable of running both the MacOS and Windows XP operating systems. ‘I kept waiting and putting it off. Then my Windows computer kept crashing. I lost three-and-a-half days of my billable time as a consultant in getting my PC working again,’ he explained. ‘The Mac changed my life, truly. I can’t imagine voluntarily switching back to Windows.'”

“After days of fighting to salvage his misbehaving Windows installation, Robbins decided that as long as he was going to have to do a complete Windows reinstallation to solve the problem, he might as well do it on a dual Mac. In the last three months he hasn’t spent any time dealing with crashes,” Germain reports.

Germain reports, “Some business users in the past were critical of switching to Macs for their lack of software. That is no longer the case, according to Griswold and Robbins. Prebundled software gave Robbins an integrated address book, calendar, e-mail and other business applications that synchronize with his PDA and with the Internet. ‘What cost me hundreds of dollars to cobble together poorly on a PC comes built-in with the Mac, all working smoothly,’ said Robbins. ‘Overall, the total cost of software and hardware is not any more costly [on a Mac] than it is on Windows.'”

Germain reports, “The three biggest productivity boosts for Robbins are the drag-to-trash icon feature to completely uninstall a program, the real security provided with a Mac, and not having a problem with viruses. He spent less time managing and fixing his Mac equipment than ever before on his Windows box. ‘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,’ he boasted.”

Germain reports, “One big confusion that most people have about not switching to a Mac infrastructure is that basic software does not work well on the Mac, suggested Griswold. His company does much of its business using Web-based word processing. ‘Macs are fine with that. As a small-business owner all I need is available in the Mac world,’ he said.”

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]