Apple obsession or delusion

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Vizsla

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124 months

Wednesday 26th November 2014
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My mate (management consultancy) has just upgraded his office system (3 users) to Office 365 (fair enough) but insists that he wanted/needed Apple hardware as, quote, 'it's much better than Microsoft/Windows systems, it's state of the art, much faster, whereas Windows (Dell, HP, Compaq etc etc) is old technology, really clunky' (eh?)

He bought 2 large TV-size Apple screens with all the works built into them (I'm not a techie, no idea of the model), these cost around £2K each and he also needs ?Parallels so that he can run Office 365. He does no graphics work, nor any CAD/CAM, nor any other 'demanding' apps, just Outlook, Word, Excel i.e. straightforward billy-basic WP stuff.

Question: is he in any way correct in his almost religious faith in Apple, or just a fashion victim? I suspect I know the answer (he can be a bit of an 'Eleven-eriffe' at times!), just need some opinion from you IT gurus.