Re: APPLE OR WINDOWS ??

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"Marty van Wanrooij" (marty@capable.nl) wrote:

>This message meant to help us decide which platform to choose.
>
>We are a medium company (15 employees) which sells electronic wires and
cables.
>In the past (8 years ago) we decided to buy one Apple Macintosh SE to do our
>correspondence on.
>
>After that we bought a few other Apples and made a small network.
>At that time we were working with MacWrite Pro and Filemaker Pro.
>Besides this Apple-network we also had a minicomputer on which we do our
>orderprocessing, stock and bookkeeping.
>
>Because this minicomputer did not have a good sales information system we
>developed our own in Filemaker Pro.
>
>Now we want to get rid of these two seperate systems and buy one complete
>system. As we do not do any DTP or likewise there are voices in our company
>to leave the Apple Macintosh and get a completely new Windows NT network.
>
>Can anyone give us good arguments to keep the Apples even though we only use
>them for administrative purposes?
>
>Thanks a lot (all suggestions are welcome)

Well, first of all, you are posting in an Apple II newsgroup.  Please direct
all subsequent messages to comp.sys.mac* hierarchy.

But I will answer your question...in your case, since you already have
Macintosh software, I'd recommend sticking with Macintosh.  Here's
why...PowerMacs such as the G3 have TWICE the raw speed of the
fastest Pentium II's and THEY CAN RUN PC SOFTWARE!  You can
run various products such as Real PC or Virtual PC that generate a
complete virtual PC in software.  On a G3, that translates into the
speed of probably a Pentium 133...(on older PowerMacs, the speed
was Pentium 75...G3 is much faster).  This means you can install
both Macintosh and Windows NT operating systems on PowerMacs.
Microsoft also made an older version of Windows NT that ran on
PowerPC processors...if you can find these, you can set up your
computers to run at the full speed of twice a Pentium II.  Take the
people who want NT for a trip to your Apple dealer and ask for a
demo of Windows running on a PowerMac...