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<blockquote data-quote="Dominion" data-source="post: 461910" data-attributes="member: 11061"><p>I would like to put in my two cents, from what I can tell, a small business standpoint you would benefit MUCH more to owning PC's for the office than Macs.</p><p></p><p>With that said, it wouldn't be a bad idea to buy the low end macbooks for your portable needs if you are set on owning macs. With the ability to purchase/use cross platform software you could viably run both systems. </p><p></p><p>Now with the reason I say PC over mac (keep in mind I haven't REALLY read others responses so I may be repeating, but it's another opinion in the pool <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />) is that over time PC's are more cost effective. Lets look at it like this, for a budget you could build a very good office PC for ~600-700$. Alternately if you play your Dell cards right you could buy a desktop for a similar price or even less. Your biggest cost in this venture will be monitors, but going budget or even CRT will save money, and in the long run you might spend a total of 900 per PC WITH monitor. Buying a base model iMac at the student discount cost will set you back 1200 per unit. Using your model provided that's a savings of 900$ or so assuming you purchase three desktops.</p><p></p><p>Now lets say you use these computers and in 3 years time when your warranty on the Mac has run out, it's motherboard fails. You'd have to ship it to Apple for repair, or take it to your nearest mac store, from what I understand Apple charges an arm and a leg for repairs. </p><p></p><p>PC, motherboard fails, even if you purchased the dell system you can more than likely easily find a replacement. Or purchase a whole new system for 200-300$ (dell systems without monitors etc are very cheap especially with coupons)</p><p></p><p>The savings in the long run from a business standpoint would point to the PC over iMac, JUST IN CASE something fails, the cost of replacement is not nearly as high. In the case of an iMac if you want to toss it and get a new one you need to buy an entire new system, and you just lost a monitor as well.</p><p></p><p>You may want to purchase the Macs more out of style than function/planning, and if that's true, whatever floats your boat. I'm just pointing out that it makes more sense to run a PC than a Mac for that worst case scenario.</p><p></p><p>As far as software goes, what do you want to do? Do you need journal apps for your preachy peoples to plan out sermons or do they just need email and word processing? I'm sure there are some church specific apps out there for planning these things (I would have absolutely no idea where besides searching Google). Do you need to design flyers,programs, etc? I've never used iwork but I hear it's FANTASTIC for those sorts of things. The two major accounting/book softwares I've used are offered on the mac as well, I've used Quicken in the past to manage household finances.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dominion, post: 461910, member: 11061"] I would like to put in my two cents, from what I can tell, a small business standpoint you would benefit MUCH more to owning PC's for the office than Macs. With that said, it wouldn't be a bad idea to buy the low end macbooks for your portable needs if you are set on owning macs. With the ability to purchase/use cross platform software you could viably run both systems. Now with the reason I say PC over mac (keep in mind I haven't REALLY read others responses so I may be repeating, but it's another opinion in the pool :P) is that over time PC's are more cost effective. Lets look at it like this, for a budget you could build a very good office PC for ~600-700$. Alternately if you play your Dell cards right you could buy a desktop for a similar price or even less. Your biggest cost in this venture will be monitors, but going budget or even CRT will save money, and in the long run you might spend a total of 900 per PC WITH monitor. Buying a base model iMac at the student discount cost will set you back 1200 per unit. Using your model provided that's a savings of 900$ or so assuming you purchase three desktops. Now lets say you use these computers and in 3 years time when your warranty on the Mac has run out, it's motherboard fails. You'd have to ship it to Apple for repair, or take it to your nearest mac store, from what I understand Apple charges an arm and a leg for repairs. PC, motherboard fails, even if you purchased the dell system you can more than likely easily find a replacement. Or purchase a whole new system for 200-300$ (dell systems without monitors etc are very cheap especially with coupons) The savings in the long run from a business standpoint would point to the PC over iMac, JUST IN CASE something fails, the cost of replacement is not nearly as high. In the case of an iMac if you want to toss it and get a new one you need to buy an entire new system, and you just lost a monitor as well. You may want to purchase the Macs more out of style than function/planning, and if that's true, whatever floats your boat. I'm just pointing out that it makes more sense to run a PC than a Mac for that worst case scenario. As far as software goes, what do you want to do? Do you need journal apps for your preachy peoples to plan out sermons or do they just need email and word processing? I'm sure there are some church specific apps out there for planning these things (I would have absolutely no idea where besides searching Google). Do you need to design flyers,programs, etc? I've never used iwork but I hear it's FANTASTIC for those sorts of things. The two major accounting/book softwares I've used are offered on the mac as well, I've used Quicken in the past to manage household finances. [/QUOTE]
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