11-17-2012, 07:11 AM
I hate to be negative, but several of the systems set up by our state gov't (particularly medicaid) not only required explorer, but required an antiquated version of explorer. I've also gone back to school, and despite education being a fairly mac-ful place, much of the web-based stuff does not work with macs. The worst of it is that it appears functional when lightly clicking through it, but it's not--at all. The latest is a "gradebook" app that my wife uses at the local university. If she inputs the numbers with a mac, the data is completely corrupted when opened at a later date. So at any rate, I'd be extremely sure everything is functional before committing to using a mac. In fact, I wouldn't even try it, myself. Just get a 300.00 windows laptop for that stuff (I bought a lenovo z580 recently for 350, and it's great). kj.