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sanddude wrote:

Harakou wrote:

Tigerkidcub wrote:

Well, let me put it this way. I've had my Mac for 2 months. I've loved it ever since I got it. When I had Vista, I was jumping off the wall, screaming, cursing the day I took my grandmother's poor money to buy this slow, noisy, bothersome machine (YEAH YOU HEARD ME RIGHT BILL GATES!). I've had TERRIBLE luck with Windows, and I'm sick of it. I will never put up with them again unless I have to for job/school. I don't think that after 4 years of screaming, cursing, and pounding my machine that I should have to waste my money and give them another chance.

BTW, my Vista computer broke after just 1 year of use. Just 1!!!! The Macs that I use at school (for computer art class) have lasted for over 10 YEARS!!! And they work pretty well, too!
Macs FTW!

1. That's Vista. Everyone knows that Vista was awful. Again, XP and 7 are much better.
2. It's not Window's fault that the computer it was on was lousy and only lasted a year. Microsoft doesn't make the hardware, just the software.

Agreed, but XP was even worse.

How in the world was XP worse than Vista??
The reason it took you 10 minutes to load a page is because your Internet was bad not the OS
Here, just take a look at this article: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2355703,00.asp

They don't get viruses because no one bothers making viruses targeted towards them. Not whatever convoluted thing you said

Blade-Edge wrote:

They don't get viruses because no one bothers making viruses targeted towards them. Not whatever convoluted thing you said

Well, the Mac community is quite small (disappointingly enough) compared to Windows, so fewer viruses are out there, true. But Macs do have certain programming that only allow them to have Mac viruses. So if your Windows computer sent my Mac a virus, the virus would not affect my system.
As for Mac viruses, there are like what, 2 out there? Not a big deal. I would be much more concerned about the 1,122,311+ viruses that Windows can get if I were you.

I use it on vista and xp but right now i`m on my kindle.

sanddude wrote:

Tigerkidcub, My Windows loves me because I'm nice to him. Stop swearing at a Windows computer, and maybe he/she will be nice to you.

LOL, JK.

I was nice at first but then it took advantage of my niceness to it, so I don't waste any more niceness on it anymore. Now my Mac is my BFF (Only when it comes to computers, of course. I have human friends too!).

Tigerkidcub wrote:

As for Mac viruses, there are like what, 2 out there? Not a big deal. I would be much more concerned about the 1,122,311+ viruses that Windows can get if I were you.

2? More like about 500.

The only reason that Windows has more viruses than OSX is because Windows is loaded on ~80% of all computers. More computers means more targets. If you made viruses, would you make a virus that can infect 20,000,000 computers, or 400,000,000? Also there is proof that Windows is actually MORE secure than OSX and most Linux distros.

Tigerkidcub wrote:

fire219 wrote:

Tigerkidcub wrote:

As for Mac viruses, there are like what, 2 out there? Not a big deal. I would be much more concerned about the 1,122,311+ viruses that Windows can get if I were you.

2? More like about 500.

The only reason that Windows has more viruses than OSX is because Windows is loaded on ~80% of all computers. More computers means more targets. If you made viruses, would you make a virus that can infect 20,000,000 computers, or 400,000,000? Also there is proof that Windows is actually MORE secure than OSX and most Linux distros.

Yeah I got the part about more Windows computers than Macs. The point is, Macs don't get Windows viruses, and I have proof (go to the section called "The Truth").

BTW, 500 is NOTHING compared to 1,122,311.

And what proof do you have of that last claim?

For one thing, I know 500 is a small number compared to 1,122,311 (if that number is correct, which it isn't).

My proof to the claim is:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hack-w … ,8704.html

http://seoblackhat.com/2009/03/20/windo … -than-mac/

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows- … 9487.shtml

Now do you get it? No? Here it is in bold:

WINDOWS IS MORE SECURE THAN MAC OSX. YOU JUST NOTICE MORE WINDOWS VIRUSES/EXPLOITS BECAUSE WINDOWS IS 3X AS COMMON AS MAC OSX.

i have a parallel for this whole mac vs windows virus thing

some number of years ago scientists were doing karyotype tests which is where you find all the dna and chromosomes and they discovered this this where some males had an extra y chromathingy and since the only place they tested was in prisons and insane asylums they thought there was some correlation
but they were wrong it was just as common in prisons as it was everywhere else they just had only tested in prisons and so after telling people that extra y chromawhoosits caused insanity and criminal behaviour it was a lot harder to get it out of their heads

thats the end of storytime kids

i use an xp and it would be doing great if the graphics card i got from a separate company hadnt totally busted

antimonyarsenide wrote:

TuffGhost wrote:

i have a parallel for this whole mac vs windows virus thing

some number of years ago scientists were doing karyotype tests which is where you find all the dna and chromosomes and they discovered this this where some males had an extra y chromathingy and since the only place they tested was in prisons and insane asylums they thought there was some correlation
but they were wrong it was just as common in prisons as it was everywhere else they just had only tested in prisons and so after telling people that extra y chromawhoosits caused insanity and criminal behaviour it was a lot harder to get it out of their heads

thats the end of storytime kids

XYY syndrome?
And yes, it's phenotypically normal.

well i dunno if its a syndrome because nothing happens

but its a pretty good analogy to the whole debate that those two keep gabbing about

I use a trashy Vista.

I need 7 badly, but it looks like more of the same plus some more bells and whistles. 

Virtual XP on a Virtual Ubuntu in my Lovely windows 7 that looks like a mac. 

fire219 wrote:

Tigerkidcub wrote:

fire219 wrote:

2? More like about 500.

The only reason that Windows has more viruses than OSX is because Windows is loaded on ~80% of all computers. More computers means more targets. If you made viruses, would you make a virus that can infect 20,000,000 computers, or 400,000,000? Also there is proof that Windows is actually MORE secure than OSX and most Linux distros.

Yeah I got the part about more Windows computers than Macs. The point is, Macs don't get Windows viruses, and I have proof (go to the section called "The Truth").

BTW, 500 is NOTHING compared to 1,122,311.

And what proof do you have of that last claim?

For one thing, I know 500 is a small number compared to 1,122,311 (if that number is correct, which it isn't).

My proof to the claim is:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hack-w … ,8704.html

http://seoblackhat.com/2009/03/20/windo … -than-mac/

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows- … 9487.shtml

Now do you get it? No? Here it is in bold:

WINDOWS IS MORE SECURE THAN MAC OSX. YOU JUST NOTICE MORE WINDOWS VIRUSES/EXPLOITS BECAUSE WINDOWS IS 3X AS COMMON AS MAC OSX.

The number is right, first of all. I just have to remember the link it's from.

Second of all, I find that really hard to believe. If Vista is so "secure" how come a virus went past it AND my virus protection program and wiped my hard drive clean? AND a virus went through my parent's work computer and she is a GOVERNMENT worker, okay? Government computers have super protection, and YET a virus came through and plastered her computer with junk (which I won't explain what it was).

Now Windows 7 might be better, I don't know. Anyone have an unbiased opinion?