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Title: IBM deploying Macs to employees at a rate of 1,900 per week
Post by: Paddy on October 24, 2015, 11:08:12 AM
Wow. Hard to imagine this a few years ago!

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/15/...-40-of-pc-users
http://www.jamfsoftware.com/blog/mac-ibm-z...00-in-6-months/
Title: IBM deploying Macs to employees at a rate of 1,900 per week
Post by: daryl66 on October 24, 2015, 11:47:00 AM
QUOTE(Paddy @ Oct 24 2015, 11:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Wow. Hard to imagine this a few years ago!

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/15/...-40-of-pc-users
http://www.jamfsoftware.com/blog/mac-ibm-z...00-in-6-months/



I am sure that most of us'uns  have been beating that drum for years with all of our "friends" on the dark side.  I love it.

Paddy:  the 2nd link does not open



Daryl
Title: IBM deploying Macs to employees at a rate of 1,900 per week
Post by: kimmer on October 24, 2015, 01:48:26 PM
Love this one comment from the apple insider page – emphasis mine:

QUOTE
Based on my own observations at my company, one possible bias is that most folk who have macs are far more savvy than my windows colleagues, even for the simpler things.  They know what they want out of a computer, and macs are their choice.


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Title: IBM deploying Macs to employees at a rate of 1,900 per week
Post by: daryl66 on October 24, 2015, 06:26:08 PM
QUOTE(daryl66 @ Oct 24 2015, 11:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Paddy:  the 2nd link does not open

Daryl


Now it opens


Title: IBM deploying Macs to employees at a rate of 1,900 per week
Post by: jchuzi on October 24, 2015, 06:47:05 PM
QUOTE(daryl66 @ Oct 24 2015, 07:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE(daryl66 @ Oct 24 2015, 11:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Paddy:  the 2nd link does not open

Daryl


Now it opens

Not for me.
Title: IBM deploying Macs to employees at a rate of 1,900 per week
Post by: Xairbusdriver on October 24, 2015, 09:24:57 PM
Jon, try it on your iPad. thumbup.gif

Wait, are you using your Dell?! Groaner.gif
Title: IBM deploying Macs to employees at a rate of 1,900 per week
Post by: jchuzi on October 25, 2015, 04:26:43 AM
QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Oct 24 2015, 10:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Jon, try it on your iPad. thumbup.gif

Wait, are you using your Dell?! Groaner.gif

I don't have an iPad, only my iMac. And I tried it at the Deli but it opened a pastrami sandwich.  whistling.gif

Wait! I just tried it again and it opened. Go figure... (Must be the pastrami.)
Title: IBM deploying Macs to employees at a rate of 1,900 per week
Post by: Paddy on October 25, 2015, 09:57:26 AM
I don't know what's wrong with that link. I confirmed that it IS the link to the article (went to the site, found it there) but it won't open in Safari now. Opened fine in Chrome though. Weird.
Title: IBM deploying Macs to employees at a rate of 1,900 per week
Post by: jchuzi on October 25, 2015, 10:06:54 AM
QUOTE(Paddy @ Oct 25 2015, 10:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I don't know what's wrong with that link. I confirmed that it IS the link to the article (went to the site, found it there) but it won't open in Safari now. Opened fine in Chrome though. Weird.
I tried it again in both Safari and Firefox and it opened. Yesterday, it wouldn't open in either browser. Perhaps it's a glitch with the website?
Title: IBM deploying Macs to employees at a rate of 1,900 per week
Post by: Paddy on October 25, 2015, 12:08:47 PM
QUOTE(jchuzi @ Oct 25 2015, 11:06 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE(Paddy @ Oct 25 2015, 10:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I don't know what's wrong with that link. I confirmed that it IS the link to the article (went to the site, found it there) but it won't open in Safari now. Opened fine in Chrome though. Weird.
I tried it again in both Safari and Firefox and it opened. Yesterday, it wouldn't open in either browser. Perhaps it's a glitch with the website?


Must have been - it's now working for me in Safari. smile.gif
Title: IBM deploying Macs to employees at a rate of 1,900 per week
Post by: Xairbusdriver on October 25, 2015, 07:26:06 PM
Maybe the site is running on an IBM made server! Groaner.gif Maybe it is sharing the same server that Watson uses...
Title: IBM deploying Macs to employees at a rate of 1,900 per week
Post by: jchuzi on October 27, 2015, 06:50:04 PM
QUOTE(Paddy @ Oct 24 2015, 12:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Wow. Hard to imagine this a few years ago!

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/15/...-40-of-pc-users
http://www.jamfsoftware.com/blog/mac-ibm-z...00-in-6-months/


IBM saving $270 per Mac in support costs, says Apple's Tim Cook