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“Is your company among the many small to medium sized businesses that have grown weary of doing business with Microsoft” as a recent Yankee Group study has indicated?
Your IT department may feel boxed-in, thinking that there may not be any viable alternatives to Microsoft solutions. An Apple Macintosh computer running OS X is one of the most overlooked yet ideal business solutions the industry has to offer.”
A recent study done by The Yankee Group states “that many small to medium sized businesses are wary of Microsoft’s motives. However, these same businesses often lack the resources or the courage to consider alternatives”. I have helped many small businesses migrate to the Macintosh platform and their latest operating system, OS X, I believe that cost is a compelling reason for your business to consider the “Switch”.
Yes, cost. Five years ago, I would agree with the masses that the initial cost of purchasing a Macintosh over a PC in the past was daunting. Study after study has shown that Macs present a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) than PC’s, but those studies were done predominantly in the graphics and media businesses, where the extra power and features built into the core OS of the Macintosh play a larger role. It is harder to justify those features when your needs are for mundane tasks such as word processing, e-mail, Internet access, and spreadsheets.
Today, the world is a very different place. You can purchase a Macintosh with a lot of features and standard software that is priced competitively with PC’s and many times at a lower cost, especially the ones purchased for mundane business use. With lower prices, your TCO picture changes dramatically. There are several reasons why Macs will cost your business less overall:
No viruses, worms, adware or spyware on the current Mac platform running the latest operating system OSX. Compare this to over 88,000 viruses on a Windows PC all of which require expensive IT staff to patch inoculate, and eradicate.
Reduced support calls. With an easier to use interface and TRUE plug-n-play, Macintosh users tend to do more with their computers, improving productivity, and quickly become experienced users, easily solving their own problems.
In surveys of businesses and institutions, it is not uncommon to find a single Mac technician supporting hundreds of Macs. Most businesses plan for one technician for every 50 PC’s and in many cases, that is stretching the limit.
Longevity. Several research firms have studied the difference in platform life and in every case, reported longer life cycles for the Macintosh platform over the PC.
A longer life cycle saves you hard cash as you need not replace your computers as often, or can re-use them in other ways.
Your biggest expense is not the computer purchase, but the human factors surrounding the computer, whether you consider the user or the supporter. Although everyone talks of reducing IT costs, it rarely happens in the Windows world. Instead, IT departments or vendor calls grow. Go to www.apple.com/business and you will be surprised at the range of companies that run their operations entirely on the Macintosh platform, and do so easily and profitably.
When you add your costs for support, purchase price, and user productivity, you will find that the Macintosh is a viable platform for you to run your business on. Microsoft sells a Mac version of Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) that is compatible with the Windows version, allowing you to
exchange your files with Windows users seamlessly, the Mac version also has many features unavailable in the Windows versions Additionally, there are software solutions and tools that you can use such as accounting, engineering, architecture, design, and others that often offer greater functionality than their Windows counterpart.
You can easily add a Mac to an existing network as it supports the standard networking protocols. I n most cases, you can buy a Mac, connect it to your network, and begin surfing the Web, checking emails, and printing documents within minutes.
Today’s Macintosh is designed to live in a Windows world, or Unix world, or Linux world. Apple has designed their computers to easily integrate into virtually any network implemented today.
Before you start buying new computers in this economy, sit down with someone who has a lot of experience with Macs and toss your ideas around. Contact me if you like. You may find that you can lower your bottom line, improve employee satisfaction, and increase profitability.
We work with you to create a personalized system for your computer, we will help you get the most out of your Mac system and network.
If you are a Switcher or new to computing, we can help smooth your transition.
We have access to all the newest cutting edge technology for Mac OS X and for all models of Apple Macintosh Even your iPod.
We offer training on all things Mac. Including iApps, .Mac services, Adobe Apps, Final Cut Studio 2, DVD Studio Pro, and many others. One on one or group training sessions are available at your home or business.
We have extensive knowledge in Apple, Adobe and Macromedia software applications. We are the sole member of the Apple Consultants Network (ACN) in the Florida Keys.
A sample list of our services:
• Pre-purchase consulting
• Hardware Troubleshooting
• Hardware replacements & upgrades
• Software installations & upgrades
• System software installations & upgrades
• Macintosh & mixed environment networking
• Software training
We can help with your wired and wireless networks. Sometimes you still need to run Windows programs. We can help you here too. Microsoft’s Virtual PC allows you to run any windows operating system on a Macintosh. You can run Windows NT, 98, ME, 2000 and the latest XP. It can be done running Mac OS 9 or OS X.
We can customize your software and your entire system for you and your business. We trouble-shoot and repair all models, install all of your hardware, external and internal; and set you up on the Internet and ensure your connectivity. We can turn you into your own multi-media studio, setting you up with cameras, printers, CD burners, scanners and a variety of equipment for your Mac. Also, we can install your server and E-mail system.
We provide software application support and Mac OS troubleshooting, training and monthly maintenance programs, as well as network installations of all types and data recovery. In the event you should loose your data, we can help. We have great success in recovering lost data. Before we begin any job, we back up data and any sensitive materials. If you have any concerns in this area please let us know. If it’s computer related, Blackhawk does it. If you have inquires or questions please don’t hesitate to contact us.
We would love to help you!
Blackhawk Design & Media Group
P. O. Box 1482
Key West. Fl 33040
fone: 011.305.292.6089
A re-engineering of your current world view will reaffirm your online presence enabling a more effervescent solution. Upscaling voluminous networking exchange solutions will result in your achieving an excellent systemic electronic data interchange synchronization, thereby exploiting technical environments for mission critical broad-based capacity-constrained systems. This will fundamentally cause a morphing into a well designed and actionable information infrastructure whose semantic content is downright null. To more fully clarify the current concept, a few aggregate issues will require addressing to facilitate a distributed communication venue. In integrating non-aligned structures into existing legacy systems, an even more effervescent (bubbly) gateway blueprint in a backward compatible package of tangible and immeasurable strategic value will result in right-sizing the conceptual frameworks, but only when thinking outside the box. This being said, the ownership issues inherent in dominant thematic implementations cannot be understated vis-a vis David Bowie, for instance.
A re-engineering of your current world view will reaffirm your online presence enabling a more effervescent solution. Upscaling voluminous networking exchange solutions will result in your achieving an excellent systemic electronic data interchange synchronization, thereby exploiting technical environments for mission critical broad-based capacity-constrained systems. This will fundamentally cause a morphing into a well designed and actionable information infrastructure whose semantic content is downright null. To more fully clarify the current concept, a few aggregate issues will require addressing to facilitate a distributed communication venue. In integrating non-aligned structures into existing legacy systems, an even more effervescent (bubbly) gateway blueprint in a backward compatible package of tangible and immeasurable strategic value will result in right-sizing the conceptual frameworks, but only when thinking outside the box. This being said, the ownership issues inherent in dominant thematic implementations cannot be understated vis-a vis David Bowie, for instance.
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A re-engineering of your current world view will reaffirm your online presence enabling a more effervescent solution. Upscaling voluminous networking exchange solutions will result in your achieving an excellent systemic electronic data interchange synchronization, thereby exploiting technical environments for mission critical broad-based capacity-constrained systems. This will fundamentally cause a morphing into a well designed and actionable information infrastructure whose semantic content is downright null. To more fully clarify the current concept, a few aggregate issues will require addressing to facilitate a distributed communication venue. In integrating non-aligned structures into existing legacy systems, an even more effervescent (bubbly) gateway blueprint in a backward compatible package of tangible and immeasurable strategic value will result in right-sizing the conceptual frameworks, but only when thinking outside the box. This being said, the ownership issues inherent in dominant thematic implementations cannot be understated vis-a vis David Bowie, for instance.
