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Anybody competent can fend off malware for free on both systems well enough to the point where it hardly needs to be argued.

You're definitely less likely to get malware on Mac

BOBBYBOB3 wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

You're definitely less likely to get malware on Mac as long as you have safety stuff on.

I added onto jji7skyline's post.

Yeah. Remember my reason that Macs don't get as much malware a while back? If not, I'll include it here.

That is a market share chart.
As you can see, Windows has a significant portion of it.
If you wrote a virus, would you rather attack about 85% of people or 6% of people? Think about it.

jvvg wrote:

BOBBYBOB3 wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

You're definitely less likely to get malware on Mac as long as you have safety stuff on.

I added onto jji7skyline's post.

Yeah. Remember my reason that Macs don't get as much malware a while back? If not, I'll include it here.
http://i.imgur.com/RaP9i.jpg
That is a market share chart.
As you can see, Windows has a significant portion of it.
If you wrote a virus, would you rather attack about 85% of people or 6% of people? Think about it.

It's funny, even my grandma (who isn't very good with computers) realises that 

lallaway12 wrote:

Windows XP is more 35% and android up 10,000%

that just destroys the point hes trying to make though
and if you want to make your arguments sound at least half educated dont use terms like "10,000%" which is literally impossible

Last edited by 777w (2012-06-15 12:07:05)

lallaway12 wrote:

Windows XP is more 35% and android up 10,000%

Uh...

Windows is great for gaming, Linux is better for everything else

777w wrote:

conbot wrote:

Windows is great for gaming, Linux is better for everything else

but this is about mac vs pc i thought 
and if pc is "personal computer," does that make macs public? 

PC in this case generally referred to IBM-compatible PCs back in the day and the term has carried on to the present day as meaning Windows computers, generally.

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MAC.

stevetheipad wrote:

I love how Mountain Lion and the past few OS' from Apple are extremely cheap. Just 20 bucks for Mountain Lion. 

Wow, these mac people...


Now just to be clear that I don't hate on Macs, but most of the points that Mac users try to make are either invalid or incorrect.

For example, saying that OSX is cheap as an argument for why it is better than Windows is invalid because it isn't just a choice to install OSX on any computer like you can with Linux or Windows; to install OSX you need a very specific set of hardware not owned by most users. For all practical purposes, OSX is included with the hardware, which will cost $1,000+.

Last edited by 16Skittles (2012-06-15 17:05:14)

stevetheipad wrote:

I love how Mountain Lion and the past few OS' from Apple are extremely cheap. Just 20 bucks for Mountain Lion. 

Linux is free, and feature-rich.

OS X is affordable but limited to Apple's * hardware.

Windows is expensive but found in most OEM hardware, and is most prone to viruses and crashes.

Solaris 10 is free, but you are lacking updates and access to the repository. Solaris is based on 2-decade old code which are incompetent to modern replacements like GNU and BSD code.

OpenVMS is not free. In order to use OpenVMS, you have to pay ridiculous amounts of money to use it, unless you are approved to receive a hobbyist license. OpenVMS is most stable; there are OpenVMS systems that have been maintaining several years of uptime, no shut downs or reboots. OpenVMS has a semi-active community whom are not nuisances like the other four.

conbot wrote:

Windows is expensive but found in most OEM hardware, and is most prone to viruses and crashes.

If you have any decent anti-virus, it is actually pretty safe. It also crashes at most once a month for me.

conbot wrote:

jvvg wrote:

conbot wrote:

Windows is expensive but found in most OEM hardware, and is most prone to viruses and crashes.

If you have any decent anti-virus, it is actually pretty safe. It also crashes at most once a month for me.

Still too much. This is why most IT companies depend on Linux for their servers. They can't risk a server crashing for some odd reason.

And, Linux is better for servers because it can be used for just about anything (because it is open-source).