I'm an IT consultant who speaks both Mac & M$ fluently. The office manager at one of my customers wants to replace her old iMacs with PC's; the 3 partners at the law firm are quite happy with their TiBooks, and of course with the fact that their IT support bills are so low. The office manager isn't comfortable on the Mac, but is not the final decisionmaker on how much money and what to buy.
I'm in the process of migrating the 3 partners to OSX. The least technically-trained of the 3 LOVES it, but he's using a 1GHZ mac with 1GB RAM. This week, the other 2 partners will also have 1GB RAM, but they're using 500 & 667 mhz G4's respectively.
Does anyone have any experience running OSX on a 1st generation iMac? They have 12 iMacs at or under 350mhz (as well as a 500mhz & a 700mhz and a couple of iBooks). They're also running a couple of UMAX clones which are slated for replacement this year. The last 3 computers they purchased were PC's, but as usual, there have been some setup issues; for instance, the other tech who set up the pc's retrograded XP boxen to 98 so he could use his old version of the over-rated MacLanPC instead of asking me to turn on Windows logins for AppleShare IP Server.
The office manager is on a 2 week vacation, during which time I'm preparing recommendations for upgrades and replacements. They're not planning to replace the old iMacs just yet; and their 2 servers (9600 & 8500 running a G4 and a G3, respectively) are holding up fine. However, if I can talk the partners into replacing their 2 servers with 1 OSX server box, I'll have much less competition for the service work (along with less billable maintenance hours than if they move to Windows .Net Server). The right hand giveth and the left taketh away...
Any comments or feedback is appreciated.
I'm in the process of migrating the 3 partners to OSX. The least technically-trained of the 3 LOVES it, but he's using a 1GHZ mac with 1GB RAM. This week, the other 2 partners will also have 1GB RAM, but they're using 500 & 667 mhz G4's respectively.
Does anyone have any experience running OSX on a 1st generation iMac? They have 12 iMacs at or under 350mhz (as well as a 500mhz & a 700mhz and a couple of iBooks). They're also running a couple of UMAX clones which are slated for replacement this year. The last 3 computers they purchased were PC's, but as usual, there have been some setup issues; for instance, the other tech who set up the pc's retrograded XP boxen to 98 so he could use his old version of the over-rated MacLanPC instead of asking me to turn on Windows logins for AppleShare IP Server.
The office manager is on a 2 week vacation, during which time I'm preparing recommendations for upgrades and replacements. They're not planning to replace the old iMacs just yet; and their 2 servers (9600 & 8500 running a G4 and a G3, respectively) are holding up fine. However, if I can talk the partners into replacing their 2 servers with 1 OSX server box, I'll have much less competition for the service work (along with less billable maintenance hours than if they move to Windows .Net Server). The right hand giveth and the left taketh away...
Any comments or feedback is appreciated.