The sad truth of PC vs MAC

Member From : México OS : Windows XP

Lbroskee wrote:: and from what i've seen PC is the least secure OS

Nop, it's mac, in a competition made a few time ago to see who had the worst defense against several types of attack the first one to fall was the Mac Pro, then a lot more, i don't remeber the order, and the winner, or more secure, was a Sony Vaio with Ubuntu 7.10.

tongue

If it were so secure Norton wouldn't be starting to make software for mac XD

Subject: Re: The sad truth of PC vs MAC May 6th 2008, 9:24 pm

Alter wrote:

Lbroskee wrote:: and from what i've seen PC is the least secure OS

Nop, it's mac, in a competition made a few time ago to see who had the worst defense against several types of attack the first one to fall was the Mac Pro, then a lot more, i don't remeber the order, and the winner, or more secure, was a Sony Vaio with Ubuntu 7.10.

tongue

If it were so secure Norton wouldn't be starting to make software for mac XD

dont forget this years Macbook air which was hacked in 2 minutes

and norton for mac is a pile of crap lol

Member From : México OS : Windows XP

At least hacking Windows will take more than those 2 minutes, enough time to press CTRL+ALT+DEL and get up and run XD.

Regular Visitor OS : Vista and OSx

hmm dell offers customer support and free computer fix If you have the unlimited warantee also if your into computer network mainframe crashes within a course of 20 years who do you want dell or mac?

I think the answer is clear

Senior Member OS :  Snow Leopard

God damn it its not a "SAD" truth persay...im guessing that in 10 years...the word Windows "refering to microsoft" will not exist also apple has the best customer support...way better than dell only thing god aboutmicrosoft is the Xbox 360

Subject: Re: The sad truth of PC vs MAC May 7th 2008, 7:07 pm

razar45 wrote:: God damn it its not a "SAD" truth persay...im guessing that in 10 years.....the word Windows "refering to microsoft" will not exist

dont be overconfident about that

Senior Member OS :  Snow Leopard

what now your supporting windows?

Regular Visitor OS : Vista and OSx

HA No we are not supporting Windows persay But it has a significant lead I mean in 20 years all the other OS besides windows only own 16% of the sales I mean maybe it will be half and half in 20 years

Subject: Re: The sad truth of PC vs MAC May 7th 2008, 7:16 pm

sonin77 wrote:: HA No we are not supporting Windows persay But it has a significant lead I mean in 20 years all the other OS besides windows only own 16% of the sales I mean maybe it will be half and half in 20 years

nothing is known, as much as I despise myself for saying this, microsoft may come out with an OS that overrules all of OSX. Or it can be the other way around, apple will start offering Leopard or Lion (or whatever 10.6+ will be) for regular PC's and take over the market!

Senior Member OS :  Snow Leopard

good god then apple will sue windows thats all there is to it -_- if i ever had the chance to kill bill gates i would kill him smile

Subject: Re: The sad truth of PC vs MAC May 7th 2008, 7:22 pm

razar45 wrote:: good god then apple will sue windows thats all there is to it -_- if i ever had the chance to kill bill gates i would kill him

did you notice someone else is running microsoft now?

Senior Member OS :  Snow Leopard

um you

Subject: Re: The sad truth of PC vs MAC May 7th 2008, 7:28 pm

razar45 wrote:: um you

not bill gates, steve balmer

Senior Member OS :  Snow Leopard

who the hell?

Subject: Re: The sad truth of PC vs MAC May 7th 2008, 7:29 pm

razar45 wrote:: who the hell?

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/default.mspx
CEO of Microsoft... FOLLOW the news wink

Senior Member OS :  Snow Leopard

i hate news -_- rly boring

Subject: Re: The sad truth of PC vs MAC May 7th 2008, 8:43 pm

u guys i know i hate conforming

Mac UI sucks because i think it has lack of functinalty. i mean wtf... close and minimize are the same thing? stupid... Screen size was stupid point on my part lol, and Linux runs like shoot on the Mac's i have tried to install it on (MacBook, iMac) 24" costs too much though btw. Linux does everything i want, it has all the programs i need or it has open source alternatives that are just as good or even better (Compare LMMS to Fruity Loops and u get my point, also Office 2007 to OO.Org and i dont mean looks, i mean functionality and productivity) Firefox runs nativley. Anyone who says linux doesnt have games is a retard because if u check out happy penguin, freshmeat, sourceforge, or even google, games for linux u get a bunch of different ones and many of them are likely good enough to compete with some of the games that run on windows, and as for the games that linux cant compete with, welcome to the world of wine or a pirated copy of crossover office or even download urself a copy of VirtualBox and run an XP live CD or install on a virtual drive.

now YOU do some god damn research

PS: Linux is FREE. What else do u want? u can run it amazingly fast on an old laptop u guy off of ebay for around 200 bucks. No compiz but the point of a computer isnt pretty effects and spinning cubes, its to be productive and to automate and add more leasure to life

Subject: Re: The sad truth of PC vs MAC May 7th 2008, 8:51 pm

close and minimize same thing.........? um no.

maybe people want the design of an apple computer and the functionality and simplicity of leopard compared to a free, you install, buy a computer command-line type OS with extreme complexity and driver installation.

you get a mac, extremely easy to use, looks hot, people say OMG YOU HAVE A MAC! :O

Subject: Re: The sad truth of PC vs MAC May 7th 2008, 9:19 pm

thats the thing, if u go to Panera or Starbucks and use a macbook, ppl bombard u. if i take my shiney little Asus Eee PC ppl barely even notice. Its not about other people. Driver installation is pretty much fixed for EVERYTHING in Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9 if its been written for the device. I didnt even have to manually install NVidia drivers this time smile

Subject: Re: The sad truth of PC vs MAC May 7th 2008, 9:23 pm

alxmarcond wrote:: thats the thing, if u go to Panera or Starbucks and use a macbook, ppl bombard u. if i take my shiney little Asus Eee PC ppl barely even notice. Its not about other people. Driver installation is pretty much fixed for EVERYTHING in Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9 if its been written for the device. I didnt even have to manually install NVidia drivers this time

but it makes you feel good and look good that you're holding a shiny new macbook and people are admiring you xD. Asus Eee PC, no offense intended of course, but it would look like you just dont have money for a normal computer.

Regular Visitor OS : XP

Geez.. everybody is getting a little testy in this thread :undecided:
Seriously people, it's ultimately a matter of preference. Fortunately for me, I think all of them are awesome (though each have their downfalls) so I'm a happy camper when using any of them.

This is like PS3 fanboys vs. xbox360 fanboys vs wii fanboys...
All can be really nice and fit a person perfectly, but there's always somebody saying, "PS3 sucks because it costs too much and looks like a George Forman grill!" because it doesn't fit them and will be answered with an equally unjustified "no, yours sucks because it costs you to play online and they look like an old Dell! (look and see)". And the guy with the wii doesn't argue because he's too busy playing tennis in his living room.

Anyway, the point is that it is just what works for some people won't for others. So people need to not argue about it and have fun on whatever OS they use. And eat cookies happy

Subject: Re: The sad truth of PC vs MAC May 7th 2008, 9:31 pm

Hibbsi wrote:: Geez.. everybody is getting a little testy in this thread :undecided:
Seriously people, it's ultimately a matter of preference. Fortunately for me, I think all of them are awesome (though each have their downfalls) so I'm a happy camper when using any of them.

This is like PS3 fanboys vs. xbox360 fanboys vs wii fanboys...
All can be really nice and fit a person perfectly, but there's always somebody saying, "PS3 sucks because it costs too much and looks like a George Forman grill!" because it doesn't fit them and will be answered with an equally unjustified "no, yours sucks because it costs you to play online and they look like an old Dell! (look and see)". And the guy with the wii doesn't argue because he's too busy playing tennis in his living room.

Anyway, the point is that it is just what works for some people won't for others. So people need to not argue about it and have fun on whatever OS they use. And eat cookies

+1 for the ending statement and the cookies happy

Member From : México OS : Windows XP

alxz310 wrote:: OMG YOU HAVE A MAC! :O

NONONONONO!!!!

People react: You got a mac, ok, just a computer, but oh, wait, that dude has an ALIENWARE with WINDOWS XP!!! OMFHJDHHRHJ(whatever swear word you wanna put in)G!!!!!!!

Mac are just boring, the same thing with an apple, but with other OS you get to pick the color, size, flavor, want an apple?, an alien face? a stylish "Q", oh wait, want cookies with that? ok

But in mac it's just... hello welcome to mac store, we have a lot to choose from, look, black, white, gray, light gray, dark gray, black with white, white with gray. ohhh, and we have one that's silver, oh wait... it just shined, it's gray, just arrived! :O

smile

Member From : México OS : Windows XP

Hibbsi wrote:: ...though each have their downfalls...

So someone must make: Wibuntu OSXP Feisty or something like that XD

Subject: Re: The sad truth of PC vs MAC May 7th 2008, 11:06 pm

most people dont know what an alienware is frankly. And i dont have enough money for a Mac. so what? i dont have money for anything else but an Asus. And with linux it costs less.

Ill take up ur request in a few years Alter