Making the argument for Mac vs PC in a design studio

I'm posting this on behalf of my wife, as forum registration seems to be broken at the moment:
Help! - Mac under threat! I'm employed as a museum exhibition designer and have been asked by the new management to explain why the work I do cannot be done as easily on a PC. Rolling my eyes and throwing my hands up in horror will not be sufficient it seems, and have been told to provide 'hard' evidence. The problem is I have no experience of working with PC's at all so cannot validate my conviction that a PC could not cope with the complexities of working with Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator (often all at same time!) and handle loads of high res images, manage fonts etc. Does anyone have any info that could help the case for the defence?

I have both Mac and PC, the PC I built myself and it can do everything that the mac can do, not as pretty, but they are totally compatible.
Why not just chill out, tell the management you are not an IT expert, you've never needed to be, if they would like to swap to PC, that is their right, but you are not experienced using Windows. Ask about the new training courses, look at this as an opportunity to learn new skills, don't "roll your eyes etc", if you have never tried Windows, approach it with a positive attitude.
I had never driven a 5 litre automatic car until I flew to the US a few years back, it was new experience, enjoy life !!

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Welcome to the Kanaka for Mac Forum

Welcome to the Kanaka for Mac forum. See the press release:
http://www.novell.com/news/press/201...available.html
Thanks for adding your experiences, knowledge, and questions here in the
forums.

On 19/01/2012 18:00, Novell wrote:
> Welcome to the Kanaka for Mac forum. See the press release:
>
> http://www.novell.com/news/press/201...available.html
"Novell Kanaka for Mac is available to Open Enterprise Server customers
with a current maintenance license and can be downloaded through the
Novell Customer Center at http://www.novell.com/center."
To find your Kanaka download click My Products then Novell Open
Enterprise Server.
> Thanks for adding your experiences, knowledge, and questions here in the
> forums.
Documentation is available at http://www.novell.com/documentation/kanaka/
A video with an overview of the product is also available at
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HTH.
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