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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 398945" data-attributes="member: 9385">I try very hard not to &quot;evangelize&quot; when talking to my windows using co-workers.&nbsp; Last night I was trying to get into the work VPN with my Dell PC, which is usually what I use when working remote.&nbsp; It logged into the VPN just fine and authenticated but for some reason Lotus Notes (our email client) refused to work properly.&nbsp; In such a way that it seemed that the IT people changed it so it couldn't see the server with the network settings that usually work.&nbsp; Well, I have Parallels on my Macbook, just for this sort of thing, with all the Windows applications I would need if, say, my Dell were narfed (technical term for broken.)&nbsp; So I fired that up, logged into the VPN, and the Notes installed on that worked like it should I was able to get into my calendar to determine if there was a staff meeting today that I would need to prepare for.&nbsp; Just to make sure that something hadn't changed in the time it took for me to boot up my Parallels VM I tried again with the Dell.&nbsp; No dice.&nbsp; Next day I was talking with a co-worker and, as usual started &quot;well, I don't like to evangelize&quot; and proceeded to recount my experience of my Windows machine failing where my Mac allowed me to get in and get some work done.&nbsp; I don't know why it worked and the Dell didn't at the time, and the problem fixed itself somehow but still that's an example that could be used to show how smug and pretentious Mac users can be.&nbsp; I try not to be like the stereotype, but when your choice of platform consistently proves it to be the better of the two (granted, I used Windows on a Mac to accomplish this) it's difficult not to be that way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 398945, member: 9385"] I try very hard not to "evangelize" when talking to my windows using co-workers. Last night I was trying to get into the work VPN with my Dell PC, which is usually what I use when working remote. It logged into the VPN just fine and authenticated but for some reason Lotus Notes (our email client) refused to work properly. In such a way that it seemed that the IT people changed it so it couldn't see the server with the network settings that usually work. Well, I have Parallels on my Macbook, just for this sort of thing, with all the Windows applications I would need if, say, my Dell were narfed (technical term for broken.) So I fired that up, logged into the VPN, and the Notes installed on that worked like it should I was able to get into my calendar to determine if there was a staff meeting today that I would need to prepare for. Just to make sure that something hadn't changed in the time it took for me to boot up my Parallels VM I tried again with the Dell. No dice. Next day I was talking with a co-worker and, as usual started "well, I don't like to evangelize" and proceeded to recount my experience of my Windows machine failing where my Mac allowed me to get in and get some work done. I don't know why it worked and the Dell didn't at the time, and the problem fixed itself somehow but still that's an example that could be used to show how smug and pretentious Mac users can be. I try not to be like the stereotype, but when your choice of platform consistently proves it to be the better of the two (granted, I used Windows on a Mac to accomplish this) it's difficult not to be that way. [/QUOTE]

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