More gasoline on the fire

[Gary Huff]

[Craig Seeman] “Interesting how the word “Windows” is never mentioned.”

Why would it be in that announcement? You fanbois say the oddest things.

[Craig Seeman]

But there’s a fair amount of OSX stuff on their business site
https://www.tekserve.com/business/Knowledge/Mac-Deployment/Best-Practices-for-Deploying-and-Managing-Mac-Computers-with-OS-X-Lion

https://www.tekserve.com/business/Events/3707521296/Welcome-to-Mac—Featuring-OS-X-10-7-Lion

Mountain Lion and iOS6 as well
https://www.tekserve.com/business/blog

and even
https://www.tekserve.com/business/Blog/apple-authorized-retailers-help-more-pc-users-switch-than-the-apple-stores

So they certainly do mention OSX (and even iOS).

So the ONE place they can mention Windows as a positive attribute, they don’t. It’s as if it might scare away the customers.

[Andrew Richards]

[Jeremy Garchow] “We have seen this type of color commentary before”

Well, well, this guy Theo Valich has an axe to grind then. I have seen the meme elsewhere, but this example is hardly a mainstream or zeitgeist representative in the context you provide.

Thanks.

Best,
Andy

[Walter Soyka]

[Craig Seeman] “So the ONE place they can mention Windows as a positive attribute, they don’t. It’s as if it might scare away the customers.”

I think you’re reading too much into this. The Tekserve HP partner page I linked to is a high-level overview, which I tried to show by also linking to the Tekserve Apple partner page. When comparing these two similar pages, note that the OS is not mentioned on either one.

This discussion is premature. Let’s resume when they start promoting their HP workstations more actively.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Craig Seeman]

[Walter Soyka] “I think you’re reading too much into this”

I was being a bit cheeky about it.
I do a lot of Mac shopping at Tekserve and bought my MacPro there amongst other things. I was talking to them about Windows support going back a number of years . . . as I bootcamp my Macs. When they showed cross platform software it was only Mac versions.

While they do promote Windows on Mac, for the longest time they only sold Windows 32bit as part of their installs. I had a couple of very frustrating discussions with them about that. I certainly didn’t share their opinion of Windows and it’s role in their business or mine. Obviously I bought my Windows 64bit disks elsewhere.

[Bernard Newnham]

Because windows is taken as read, that’s all. If they used some non-standard OS – Ubuntu Friendly Frog, or something – they would make a deal of it, but Windows is what you would expect unless you only live in a Mac world.

And – for those who are making their first steps out of the closed society that is Apple – if you go to a company and they don’t sell the exact flavour of PC that you want, go elsewhere. There are millions of PC sellers all looking to please you, who will happily build to your spec, probably in just a few hours.

And if that still doesn’t work, just build the one you want. That nice new Asus Z77 board might be a good place to start.

Bernie

[Chris Harlan]

[Bernard Newnham] “And – for those who are making their first steps out of the closed society that is Apple -“

Yes, this trailer from The Village reminds me quite a bit of that “closed society that is Apple.”

https://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3572826393/

[Keith Koby]

I don’t think you’ll ever see an HP in the front window or on the floor in there. The tekserve pro guys will definitely sell the z computers to you if you want them. They are after all “in the business of selling, designing and supporting creative solutions” for their customers. On the other hand, some of their customers are still firm believers in apple computers for several reasons.

[Craig Seeman]

[Keith Koby] ” don’t think you’ll ever see an HP in the front window or on the floor in there.”
Based on my experience I’d say the same.

[Keith Koby] “some of their customers are still firm believers in apple computers for several reasons.”

Actually not the customers, the company itself, based on my experience. I really want to avoid posting some of things they said to me but I’ll just say they didn’t believe Windows 7 64bit was necessary and would not install it on their bootcamped systems, only 32bit.

Given they’re a VAR I suspect the only reason they’re doing this is that they don’t have a viable MacPro to sell to professionals. While they sell all Mac based (cross platform) NLEs. They are probably more strongly behind FCPX than any other VAR. They’ve held several FCPX events that took over the entire store packed to overflow crowds . . . which I suspect was more due to their marketing that Apple’s.

[Walter Soyka]

[Craig Seeman] “I was being a bit cheeky about it.”

Sorry for jumping on you, mate. The cheekiness whooshed over my head.

[Craig Seeman] “While they do promote Windows on Mac, for the longest time they only sold Windows 32bit as part of their installs. I had a couple of very frustrating discussions with them about that.”

32-bit — ew.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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