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Old 12-May-2008, 01:27 PM
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Is a mac book suitable for an IT Technician
Hi dudes

I've been asked the above question, and because i haven't had any experience with a mac i'm not sure.

Basically they want a laptop for:

work, technical support, network monitoring etc
play, making websites, graphics design etc

and because mac can have vista installed also he's thinking vista for work leopard for play.

any suggestions?

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Hi dudes

I've been asked the above question, and because i haven't had any experience with a mac i'm not sure.

Basically they want a laptop for:

work, technical support, network monitoring etc
play, making websites, graphics design etc

and because mac can have vista installed also he's thinking vista for work leopard for play.

any suggestions?

Cheers Dudes
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Yeah, I'm sure it would be fine mate. Here is a macbook being used by an up and coming technician.


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Yeah, I'm sure it would be fine mate. Here is a macbook being used by an up and coming technician.
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thats funny.


Seriousley though it should be fine to use a mac. In my job where people are designing adverts for the local paper and doing websites, they were all done on macs, although a few of the designers use PCs now.

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and because mac can have vista installed also he's thinking vista for work leopard for play.

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Don't see why not, 10.5 has bootcamp so you can dual boot between Vista/XP and OSX.

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