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Originally Posted by Trevor Barnes
You are a brave man AA.   I know several casual PC users that do nothing but send email and browse the internet who have been infected with some nasty stuff. If by not "needing" it you mean that people can just wait till they get infected, then reformat, I guess that's true. |
I have six computers running at home, none of them with anti-virus or anti-spyware software running. I've never been infected on any of them, and I do a lot more than the average user online...
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Originally Posted by GoStateNate
All I'm saying is you have to be able to look through the prism of the computer illiterate. They don't know a goddamn thing about it computers outside of the basic basic functions. It's easy for you and I, but not so easy for the computer illiterate in a world where computers are almost a neccessity.
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Aside from the fact that Windows is just as secure as Mac OS X, at least Windows comes with some built-in software that does at least a decent job of watching over these potential issues. Mac OS X comes with nothing.
Go ahead and reply back that it doesn't need that stuff. You're right, and that's because the Mac platform is so unpopular that virus writers simply don't waste their time writing viruses that would infect such a small segment of computer users. Rest-assured, if Apple ever found a way to penetrate a meaningful segment of the computer market, their OS would be compromised just as fast as Windows.
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Originally Posted by locd32
No comment on the Dell I linked that was $900 cheaper then the comparable Mac I linked? That's a fair comparison is it not  |
There never is. The Mac cultists always ask people to give examples of how Windows-based PC's are cheaper. They'll usually come back and read off a list of accessories nobody cares about that are missing from the Windows PC (as I said earlier). If you build a system with all of that and it still comes in cheaper, they just ignore your post.
Apple fans know that they're full of ****, they just don't care. If you know they're wrong and/or lying, they just move on to the next person, hoping they're gullible enough to eat the **** that they're shoveling.