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<blockquote data-quote="Porphyro" data-source="post: 445837" data-attributes="member: 15254"><p>A little background: I am a Lutheran, and instead of deacons or elders, we have a church council. I'm a member of council at my church and we briefly talked about replacing a couple of computers at our last council meeting.</p><p></p><p>We do not have a written policy on office computers, but we're thinking of formulating one. Such a move includes trying to figure out what sort of purchasing we want to do. Right now the office computers are PC's, but two of our pastors have MacBooks at home. </p><p></p><p>I think it would behoove our church to invest in Apple computers instead of wasting so much money (and used computer equipment) running through PC's every three or four years. My wife has a G3 iBook and it is running Tiger pretty well...try that with a 7-year-old PC. </p><p></p><p>"The switch" is one issue, but right now I'm worried about cost. I need to put together a loose possible buying scenario to present to council. </p><p></p><p>Three questions: </p><p>1) Are there nonprofit/church discounts or purchasing plans for Macs?</p><p>2) What would a reasonable turnover time be for replacing iMacs/Macbooks? Less often than 3 years, for sure.</p><p>3) We have a church secretary (desktop), parish pastor (desktop), campus pastor (laptop), and youth pastor (laptop or desktop, lappy right now). If you were our IT purchaser, what sort of setup would you go with? We have about a $450k annual budget, but technology isn't given a regular chunk of that.</p><p></p><p>Interesting tidbit: I've read in several places that Steve Jobs is a Lutheran.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Porphyro, post: 445837, member: 15254"] A little background: I am a Lutheran, and instead of deacons or elders, we have a church council. I'm a member of council at my church and we briefly talked about replacing a couple of computers at our last council meeting. We do not have a written policy on office computers, but we're thinking of formulating one. Such a move includes trying to figure out what sort of purchasing we want to do. Right now the office computers are PC's, but two of our pastors have MacBooks at home. I think it would behoove our church to invest in Apple computers instead of wasting so much money (and used computer equipment) running through PC's every three or four years. My wife has a G3 iBook and it is running Tiger pretty well...try that with a 7-year-old PC. "The switch" is one issue, but right now I'm worried about cost. I need to put together a loose possible buying scenario to present to council. Three questions: 1) Are there nonprofit/church discounts or purchasing plans for Macs? 2) What would a reasonable turnover time be for replacing iMacs/Macbooks? Less often than 3 years, for sure. 3) We have a church secretary (desktop), parish pastor (desktop), campus pastor (laptop), and youth pastor (laptop or desktop, lappy right now). If you were our IT purchaser, what sort of setup would you go with? We have about a $450k annual budget, but technology isn't given a regular chunk of that. Interesting tidbit: I've read in several places that Steve Jobs is a Lutheran. [/QUOTE]
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