Help me persuade my office to ditch PCs [View all]

We are a small seven person in house legal group within a much larger organization. Virtually, the entire organization is STILL using Windows XP. (Our cisco phones are tied into the computers and the organizational network) My understanding is that XP wont be supported within a year or two. Hence big discussions are happening with the tech services unit of the organization.

As far as interfacing with out clients, our little legal group receives and send out pdfs and word doc. And talk on the phone. That's it. We use word perfect to create legal briefs but they are printed or pdf to the court. So no worry. Real simple.

I want our little group to go all mac within the next few years---macbook pros and a couple of good printers. I think there will be resistance from tech services. They will say, " oh we can't have macs. We can't provide support. They can't be tied into the phone network. Our servers are not compatible etc." My response is that 4 of our 7 very old pcs are already starting to give out. That's one pitch. My other pitch is that we are already our own island--even physically, so we can just get regular phones and not even be on the network. And the mac cloud can back everything up. Sooooo......

What other talking points should I have ready to try to convince them, that macs are the way to go (at least for out little group) ?