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You'll stay with the tech you locked yourself in. I work in one of several buildings and macs there are just to let others know that you are a manager and you can get away with anything you want. Beside that everything is a MS pc and will stay that way until the business die.

Getting everyone into the system is infinitively expensive, so is getting everyone out of it.




I work in a large 5000+ software company and were honestly about 30-40% macs. An MBPr is a good investment - I figure my 3yo machine will easily retain about 35-50% of its value if resold.


That's an odd definition of an investment. My MBPr was definitely an expense, and I love it.

I suppose the enjoyment I have received from using it could be considered dividends of sorts, and so I could see calling it an investment from that perspective. But not financially.


Is that one of the ones that is old enough that it can actually be opened up and have components upgraded?

I've been hearing about used 2012 MBPs selling for more than they cost new.


>> I've been hearing about used 2012 MBPs selling for more than they cost new.

Where? They go for $700 at the most on for sale forums.


> Getting everyone into the system is infinitively expensive, so is getting everyone out of it.

While there are some costs to switching away from an OS/ecosystem, there's a limit to them, and it's often low enough to be economical for a business to switch or to allow some of its employees to switch (I've seen this with development shops that switch from Windows to mostly Linux with a little OS X).




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