cdodkin

Where's Tim & Dell when you need them?

CosmosC4S

Debating on Mac and Windows is like debating on Religion and Politics.

Just go throwing your machines at each other and smashing them.....
The last one standing is the winner.


Besides, majority of you don't even make full use of your computers,
Do you know or use all the features that come with the OS?
How would you know which is better then??
Better for email, or for surfing the net?
Or just coz' someone else says so...

Tippy

Heard about the fire going on, thought I would throw some fuel on the fire.

Macs RULE, people who own them know better!

jerryrice

seems you are confusing hardware with the OS, if your real men, use unix (linux, solaris X86, etc)

NorthVan

I read on a Software package once System requirements Windows 2000 or better so I bought a Mac. LOL Windows Vista looks cool, but I haven't tried it yet.

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even macs don't have one OS hardware anymore.

jerryrice

Forgetting the OS, Since MAC went Intel based , your basically down to which OS one preferes, PC's do have more potential options for upgrades due to driver availability for XP and Vista.

cdodkin

Yep and you get to choose between over 114,000 potential viruses for your PC, with the Mac you don't even get to have a virus

Mike Murphy

I'm in the IT industry and troubleshoot networks for a living. Macs are great, PCs are great too. They are just different. Microsoft, on the other hand, is questionable, but has gotten a lot better over the years. Vista comes with a lot of added junk and security protection that we could all live without. But, it wasn't any different when XP came out replacing Windows 2000. Just buy the machine with Vista and try it out and get Office 2007 is you can for a reasonable cost. You can always reformat and put XP on it, but you should really try Vista and you'll find that it does the job just fine. I don't believe the there are a lot of reliability issues with Vista.

In 3 years, most Microsoft people will be using Vista, so why wait 1-3 years to play catch-up?

cdodkin

May as well wait the extra 3 years, as you've already waited 5 years to get something that looks like OS X

Mike Murphy

There are about 100 MAC-related security holes and potential viruses.

jerryrice

Interesting statement ., wonder why there are a plethora of sites selling MAC virus software

http://www.become.com/shop?q=mac+vir...virus+software

cdodkin

Potential, as in Porsche have the potential to produce a 500 hp 991

cdodkin

You need to do your research before you post - Anti virus software for OS X is a prevention for potential virus development only. Basically it's bull**** S/W that filters PC virus materials and stops you sending them on to your poor PC using buddies.

The only known OS X 'virus' was one that could spread via iChat, and was proofed in 2006.

However in order to 'catch' said virus you had to do all of the following:

1) Are somehow sent (via email, iChat, etc.) or download the "latestpics.tgz" file

2) Double-click on the file to decompress it

3) Double-click on the resulting file to "open" it

4) Be an Admin level user on OS X and agree to install the application when prompted.

If that's the worst I have to cope with, I'm still at Mac 1 MS 114,000 +

Oh, and that one was patched by Mac back in 06

Try this for yourself, go to http://www.microsoft.com, and search for the word virus.

Now do the same at http://www.apple.com

You get 82,466 hits at MS, and 98 at Apple - that should tell you all you need to know

Or maybe the fact that the 100 most virulent virus attacks cause 99.9% of damage to computer systems, and none of these attacks work on Mac OS X

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lol!
educate us on why mac's OS is so impenetrable by a virus?