oldsk00l
02-07-05, 12:02 AM
http://www.pintmaster.com/wordpress/20050205/why-i-cant-switch-to-a-mac/
The first task and unfortunately the ultimate deciding factor was Email support. In my business we send a lot of documents to people so Microsoft Office is a must whether you are on Mac or PC. So, I fired up Microsoft Entourage 2004, the Mac equivalent of Outlook. I put in my account information and hit ok. The first thing I noticed, is that Entourage tells you that it uses Outlook Web Access, and not the regular exchange protocol. My question to Microsoft is: Why would you do this!?!??!?. The impact of this decision is well documented online in the message boards. It makes your outlook access very SLLOOOOOOWWWW. How slow is it? If Entourage is not in the foreground, it wont download new messages. When entourage is in the foreground, it can take up to 5 minutes to start downloading new mail. It seems to go through every folder and subfolder I have synchronizing even when there are no changes. It gives no precedence to the inbox which, in my first day of work probably took me 40 minutes to see a new message after it had arrived. As a speed comparison, it ended up being faster for me to run Outlook 2003 in a Windows XP virtual PC.
Funny enough though, Evolution has a package for OSX, and you can run it with ximian connector. I've run ximian connector on a regular linux machine and it works flawlessly
http://astcomm.net/screenshots/X11/Evolution/
The first task and unfortunately the ultimate deciding factor was Email support. In my business we send a lot of documents to people so Microsoft Office is a must whether you are on Mac or PC. So, I fired up Microsoft Entourage 2004, the Mac equivalent of Outlook. I put in my account information and hit ok. The first thing I noticed, is that Entourage tells you that it uses Outlook Web Access, and not the regular exchange protocol. My question to Microsoft is: Why would you do this!?!??!?. The impact of this decision is well documented online in the message boards. It makes your outlook access very SLLOOOOOOWWWW. How slow is it? If Entourage is not in the foreground, it wont download new messages. When entourage is in the foreground, it can take up to 5 minutes to start downloading new mail. It seems to go through every folder and subfolder I have synchronizing even when there are no changes. It gives no precedence to the inbox which, in my first day of work probably took me 40 minutes to see a new message after it had arrived. As a speed comparison, it ended up being faster for me to run Outlook 2003 in a Windows XP virtual PC.
Funny enough though, Evolution has a package for OSX, and you can run it with ximian connector. I've run ximian connector on a regular linux machine and it works flawlessly
http://astcomm.net/screenshots/X11/Evolution/