re: iMac/Apple Purchase Advice

We use Mac in our office because I simply am not going to hire an IT staff. We use time capsule and have several and we use remote back ups.

If a user has a problem I simple refer them to AppleCare.

Just this week we had a 6 year old machine develop hard drive issues. Simply told the employee to buy a new machine and use the migration assistant with the time machine and be done with.

Experience tells me that repair would be a few hundred dollars and the machine would still be 6 years old.

I got PO about Mac upgrades and investigated using PCs again until I got a price on the IT support--$15000 a year for our 12 users. Screw that.

We do have a PC server and all our users connect through terminal services and I am really considering moving it to the cloud so I don't have to worry about backups and viruses. We did have a ransom virus last year on Christmas Eve. That was a pain. Paid some Russian $400 in bitcoin ransom and he was very nice in helping us restore. Who wants to do that crap?

We use some excel and a lot of numbers. I wish I had Access but that is all I miss.

We have a couple more PCs for UPS and EDI transactions.

In your case I would buy a new machine.

MacOffice runs better than Office in many ways according to the users in our office that use it. I haven't found anything I can't do in numbers and pages.

(What is the deal with Office 365 and excel? that really sucks. You can't even build a graph in 365 excel and paste it in powerpoint 365. you could do that in 95)