<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The list bounces this back because of length so I split it into 2 parts.<div><br></div><div>I have copied the response from my company's IT Manager. He has refused my request for my laptop replacement to be a Mac. You'll see that many of his reasons are baseless but I'm not sure how to respond. Any help would be appreciated. I do need to use Outlook and some other Windoze specific applications but that should be fine with BootCamp or Parallels. I remember there were some web sites that have info to help refute reasons like the ones I was given but I can't seem to locate any recent ones.<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>-= Ken =-</div><div>_______________________</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="879292507-26092008"><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks for this but based upon what you've said unfortunately I cannot justify a Mac for the following the reasons:</font></span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="879292507-26092008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="879292507-26092008"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span class="879292507-26092008">- No significant business need to justify a change to existing company standardisation.</span></font></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="879292507-26092008"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span class="879292507-26092008"></span></font></font></span><span class="879292507-26092008"><span class="879292507-26092008"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></span></span> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="879292507-26092008"><span class="879292507-26092008"><font face="Arial" size="2">- Dell laptops and XP operating systems are already tried and tested with all XXXXX sales people.</font></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="879292507-26092008"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="879292507-26092008"></span></font></span> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="879292507-26092008"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="879292507-26092008">- We have never run or tested a Mac running Windows XP so this would create added risk and company support costs. Dells are tried and tested throughout the organisation.</span></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="879292507-26092008"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="879292507-26092008"></span></font></span> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="879292507-26092008"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="879292507-26092008">- Lack of ability to support you due to no universal Mac skills in IT.</span></font></span></div><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="879292507-26092008"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="879292507-26092008"></span></font></span> </div><div dir="ltr" align="left">-- Continued in Part 2 --</div></div></div></body></html>