Vista's Security Rendered Completely Useless by New Exploit

[Darus Grey]

This confuses me a little. For most apps, the install/uninstall process is "copy to/from the Applications folder."

I didn't get it either, OSX has easiest install/unistall of the 3 in my experience.

[Correction]

Which is sad, you'd think it'd be the other way around considering programming for a MAC is a lot more like making a game for consoles(i.e. there's a very small range of hardware you have to consider). Jobs made a huge mistake back when he was telling off game companies(I think that was pretty much *the* thing that kept Macs from being real competitors if not the dominant OS).

Boot Camp and Intel processors have pretty much killed any desire for game companies to program natively for the Mac anymore. That and Jobs's continued indifference at the gaming market in general. He apparently just doesn't need us to keep selling iPhones.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=204516

[Moridam]

Both are fun, both also suck really hardcore when you really want to get something done. Like video chat, or assessibility. And the worst part of all, is that neither accepts the other fully. With Mac, you have to change settings or download something to make it work, same with windows.

If you ask me, Linux is the way to go, the only way I have yet to go, and the only way where if it screws up, you can take your hands out of your pants and blame yourself.

If you're really worried about getting things done without having to devote much time/energy to your OS, Linux is probably the last place on Earth you should go.

If you're concerned about software cross-compatibility, it will be no different than your experiences with Windows/OSX. Possibly worse.

Really though, it's hardware support you need to look into extensively before you take the plunge.

[Weltall]

Mac fan that thinks his or her system is the coming of God needs to get real.

Misterbob was right on the first page. If Mac was the largest userbase(they never will be, because for the most part they SUCK) you can rest assured they would see plenty of virus attempts.

[Apelila]

Hey look, a mac user basher thread.

All computer users, but especially mac user's fall into stereotypes. The difference is that mac users are easier to define.

There are the "I bought the computer because its easy to use but I can't do basic things like read" user, the "I know what I'm doing but I called techsupport to make sure you know what your doing" user, and the "My operating system is better, there is no other argument" guy.

There's also the "I just bought this computer because of reason X" person, but normally they fall into one of the other categorizes at the end of the day.

[Shuvo]

Mac vs PC Parody: The Unspoken Message

[Isiolia]

I'm going to go ahead and say the fanboy to owner ratio is much, much higher for macs. I don't even know what it is, almost every mac owner I know is the same way about them, they can't wait to tell you how crappy your PC is and "Dude, you should get a mac." I live with a macaholic, I get this all the time, I'd be interested in understanding the need for that type of attitude.

Browse more tech forums =P

My problem with Mac is that they're not selling a product so much as they're selling exclusivity, which is basically substance-less and at times detrimental. Their OS has a reputation of being stable, but as far as actual features I can't say I've experienced anything that really makes it stand out (this is from limited experience over the years with Macs in school). They have a few exclusive programs (Final Cut is the big one that comes to mind) that they rely on to maintain relevance. You can't really easily be a DIY type with macs, and you're limited on software compared to the rest of the computing world. Given that I'm not tech-illiterate and can generally handle problems that inevitably come up with every machine/os for personal use, I want the best hardware value and most software options/compatibility. When people talk about partitioning their mac to run windows, I just kinda wonder... "well if you aren't needing to use Final Cut, then what's the point of having the Mac in the first place?"

Well, yes and no for some of that. There's a hell of a lot of tinkering you can do with Macs these days (even OS9 had a number of things people did). Comparing lab computers with your home desktop is never a fair comparison. If you had a Mac at home, and then went to go use some trashed Windows box with locked down permissions at school, you'd have a skewed perspective on it that way too.

OS X is BSD UNIX with some of the guts hidden, and a lot of the operation smoothed out...but available if you want to use it. You can un-hide the UNIX filesystem and edit text files to tweak the system if that's what gets you your jollies. A good bit of Linux software is ported to OS X along with native apps, might have to run it in X...but it's not as though that's not included as part of the Mac OS.

Running Windows on a Mac alongside OS X is just giving yourself more options. You can be running Windows, Mac OS, and X Windows apps all at the same time too. It's not just rebooting into Windows, you can use one of the virtual machines (Parallels, Fusion, Sun has a free one...) out there to run it inside the Mac OS too.