Comments on: Poll: Do your church staff use PCs or Macs?

By: jack

jack — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:08:09 +0000

That’s interesting Jon. Any ideas why you think it’s the trainees who are using Macs? Has the church bought them, or did they bring the Macs with them when they started working?

By: Tom Barrett

Tom Barrett — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:09:35 +0000

We got given a bunch of second-hand PCs which I bring back to working order with minimal $ outlay as they are needed. Anybody been given a bunch of second-hand macs?

By: Erich Serediuk

Erich Serediuk — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:38:20 +0000

I think the other factor in switching is that the things you did on PC can still be done on a Mac using parallels or Boot Camp. Therefore those who want some aspect of PC that they cant do on their Mac can solve it that way.

By: Steven Kryger

Steven Kryger — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:44:01 +0000

That’s true – we’re more likely to hear of people switching from the larger pool. I’m yet to find anyone who’s switched to a Mac and regretted it though. Also, most people who have Macs have used PCs, whereas most people who have used PCs, haven’t (necessarily) used Macs.

By: Andrew Goodall

Andrew Goodall — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:02:00 +0000

To be fair, the PC community provides a much bigger pool to switch away from.

But I think that few people switch *from* OS X because they find it works better for them. It certainly works better for me, for most tasks. To each their own, but don’t ask me to support your Windows PC after I’ve advised you to get something else.

By: Steven Kryger

Steven Kryger — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:33:08 +0000

I often hear of people switching from PCs to Macs, but never from Macs to PCs. Why is that do you think?

By: Andrew Goodall

Andrew Goodall — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:28:00 +0000

Our staff get a choice. The majority prefer and choose Macs. As one of the ICT guys I’ve promoted Macs as it has significantly reduced the number of support calls I get and downtime for the staff.

Most staff had used only Windows prior to their switch. No one has switched from a Mac to a Windows PC.

By: Steven Kryger

Steven Kryger — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:12:23 +0000

Ashley and Jon – thanks for your thoughts. You’ve got me thinking – just written an article to be published tomorrow – “Mac or PC for Christian ministry?”. Keep an eye out for it!

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:25:44 +0000

Steve, they brought them with them when they came. they are younger (although not much more younger than me). the churches IT guy doesn’t like macs, but i don’t think that’s the only reason we don’t run them as distributed machines. i think their price contributes in a big way to their extent of use in churches. maybe if churches were included in apples education discount they would become more affordable.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:22:11 +0000

Today we probably have 50/50 PC/Mac amongst those that BYO hardware. Over the last few years I’ve observed an increase in use of mac’s among paid members of our ministry team.

More and more people coming out of theological training are likely to own a mac. I’d be curious to know these stat’s for those graduating from Moore College or SMBC