I guess it is time to insert a little economy into the discussion of
why people buy PC's with windows.
1. Most Non-Profits, like the one that I volunteer for seem to
perpetually have a lack of funds to purchase PC's. Lots of what they
get are second hand donations which makes the price correct.
2. Many small business's of 3-10 persons like law, medical and
accounting offices purchase their PC's base on bang for the buck.
which means price.
I bought a client 4 Dell's from MicroCenter for $399 each, they came
with XP Pro, 1gig Ram and 80 gig hard disks. And a keyboard and mouse
included. No monitors but cheap LCD's abound.
3. Non-Profits can purchase software and hardware thru TechSoup,
which MS sells their XP pro for around $8 a copy. And MS Office pro
for about the same.
Of course the Non-Profit that I volunteer for has around 120
workstations and 8 windows 2003 servers. No Apple products were
available for them to purchase at a cheap price like Intel PC's and
MS products. They did get a really good price break from Dell on
their servers and switch's.
(I don't think that the BOD would approve purchasing MAC's when they
can get Windows PC's for a small amount of outlay.)
Techsoup is the primary place for validated non-profit's to acquire
hardware and software at real cheap prices. No Apple products seem
to be visible. I understand that Apple does provide software/hardware
in small amounts to some non-profits that jump thru the many-many
hoops to get it.
PS:
I printed Tom's comments about the mental instability of their
decisions for them to review and they all said to tell him to "piss up a rope"
sorry but I guess I am among the unwashed.. <G>
Rich Schinnell
PPS: Chris, you seem to be peeing into the wind..
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