using a mac in windows envionment

[leigh_boy]

a few people in the org are looking for macs, the trouble is everything we have is windows based.

apps we user are office, dynamics ax - ( mainly on terminal server) and adobe pro. we also use 3cx phone system and use the application on the machines not sure if their is a mac version, i will look.

downsides as far as i can see are, having to purchase a different version of office that im not sure will be covered by our enterprise agreement?

lack of in house support for macs. cant use group policy and im also not sure on the availability for printer drivers.

any comment to make on this? im not sure if my statement on the downsides are 100% correct.

 

[leigh_boy]

I use my Retina Macbook Pro (Late 2013 Haswell) in Windows as much as I use it on OS X and it runs perfectly, infact I don't think it's ever crashed on me. I do quite a lot of gaming on it as I don't currently have a rig as I need it for travelling to and from uni.

It's a seriously capable machine, yeh it's expensive but I wouldn't say there's any problem to running Windows on it, it will run it as well as any other dedicated Windows laptops.

i wouldnt want to go through puting boot camp on them all, because our EA says we must already have a windows license for the machine, so that extra cost, the price of the machiens are not an issue we spend 1.5k / 2k on every laptop we have here. we buy about 10 + a year.
i think its safe to say its a no go really apart from our designers who only will use macs. annoyingly.
never had issues with smb on mac.