Cost of implementing 20 photography Macs into Active Directory

[sonofsanta]

For the record (as this is a bit of a necro now): I emailed off the PO this morning for all the machines going into the new Art & Drama block, with nary a Mac amongst them. The room in question is getting 27" 1440p IPS monitors attached to i5-4440 machines with 8GB RAM and Samsung 840 EVO SSDs for a combined cost of £635 (including five year warranty). Equivalent iMac would have been over £1300 - more than twice as much. Edited March 26, 2014 by sonofsanta
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[Roberto]

For the record (as this is a bit of a necro now): I emailed off the PO this morning for all the machines going into the new Art & Drama block, with nary a Mac amongst them. The room in question is getting 27" 1440p IPS monitors attached to i5-4440 machines with 8GB RAM and Samsung 840 EVO SSDs for a combined cost of £635 (including five year warranty). Equivalent iMac would have over £1300 - more than twice as much.

 

Good to know there's a happy ending to this. As much as I personally love my macs at home and support their use in business/education where appropriate, your issue was always a case of someone going 'oooh shiny... *drool*' and its nice to see public funds not get wasted because someone is easily distracted.

[Jwzg]

We actually had an opposite situation at our school where we are 1-1 Mac. A coworker said we needed 15 Windows desktop computers to run our engineering academy software (Autodesk Inventor) as well as a switch and cables to outfit the room. This would have cost in the neighborhood of $15K. I simply suggested charging the students $100 a year over three years and bought them MacBook Pro's with 8GB of RAM and a BootCamp partition. Problem solved for no extra money (we already had licenses for Windows 7 installations). The co-worker wanted to go fisticuffs, LOL. I told him he could talk to my boss, and that was the end of it.