I built a computer for my wife. It’s screaming fast, and runs Windows 7. It cost me about $1100. To get a computer that’s almost as fast from Apple, it would cost me $2500 at least. Why would I do that? Because, as Apple ads point out, OSX is more secure than Windows 98? No, that’s immaterial.

I don’t pay a dime for anti-virus. Microsoft Security Essentials works great

Windows 7 tells you loudly (as did Vista) if you’re downloading a trojan. How about Mac?

Right! However, the numbers are just a little bit more in favor of Apple when it comes to getting attacked by viruses. There are now over a million viruses for PCs…
http://www.cknow.com/cms/vtutor/number-of-viruses.html

However, I can count the OS X viruses on my hands and toes…
http://www.pure-mac.com/virus.html

What would that ratio be on PC vs. OS X on viruses? HUGE! More than your claimed ten to one, try hundreds or thousands to one!

“And HOW MANY GAMES CAN YOU FIND FOR APPLE????????”

Well, I ask you, how many games are there for the Zune???
I can run ANY PC game I want with Fusion3. Why bother getting a junky PC? I ask you how many Iphone games run on the Zune?

Better get your facts straight before you come on an Apple Blog and rag on OS X, Macs, and the Apple Users.

You lost this argument, game, set, and match!

Apple fails to mention the fact that there OS still can lockup and crash…even though they control the design of the hardware. They are basically making the equivalent of a gaming console…with a keyboard…except for one huge difference….

HOW MANY GAMES CAN YOU FIND FOR APPLE????????

And to think Apple actually trys to make fun of Windows by saying it’s designed for spreadsheets and word processing and Apple is designed for fun. Fun my azz!!!

Let’s go look at all the game titles at Best Buy for Apple…hell let’s just go look at software in general for Apple versus Windows.

Windows 7 is very stable, fast and loads of fun.

Apple on the other hand is a wannabe Ubuntu that doesn’t look near as nice and costs a helluva a lot more.

Apple and the arrogant poots that use them just suck. It’s always the artsy fartsy types that want to dress like hipsters and they end up looking like hobos or gypsies instead.

Apple gypsy fart type – “look…I just bought this overpriced homo looking white laptop that’s really thin and can make me look warped with its software and onboard camera…SEE….It’s doing it now!!!”

Windows user – “ughhh…well…I hate to tell you but Kai’s was doing this sh/t over 10 years ago…and ughhh….the special warpy software isn’t on…that’s just you in your Gypsy suit”

Losers.

Happy Computing on a Mac, with that stable, boring, non-upgradable piece of shit you call a computer

You are SO funny.

Apple WOULD never copy that mess of an OS for security designs! Look under the hood of Windows 7 or ANY Windows OS. Still the SAME OLD Windows with massive .dll files floating EVERYWHERE and the same OLD registry problems. Nothing has changed. They just copied Apple on the desktop look and feel and turned off the pop-up warnings, but they did not remove the real problems with Windows. They can’t. If they did, nothing would work!

Why do you think most Windows users still use online mail like Yahoo and Google? Because they are STILL afraid of hackers getting into their email and address books. They have good memories…
http://news.cnet.com/Hackers-probe-Outlook-Express-flaw/2100-7349_3-5761537.html
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2006/09/02/how-to-hack-into-a-windows-xp-computer-without-changing-password/

Apple CANNOT copy Windows even if they wanted to. If you have not used a MAC, I will tell you a little secret…. The OS X system is based on the Unix OS. Apple changed to a Unix based system YEARS AGO. OS X is VERY, VERY stable compared to Windows. That is why a lot of web servers are Linux(Unix) based PCs. They run forever without crashing. If there is a program that hangs or crashes it won’t take out the whole OS on a Unix system. I have been using Unix on both Sun Work Stations and Apples for years with no problems unless I purposely kill a root process in the Activity Monitor.

And as I stated before, the OS X written programs are compartmentalized and can be deleted as one file, unlike Windows. If you lose the uninstaller for your old program on Windows, than cross your fingers and pray you don’t get dupe dlls on the next install.

You can HAVE that insecure mess any day!

Enjoy your overpriced Windows 7, and setting up the firewall.

And Mr. Gates say’s thank you for your undying loyalty and hard earned money!

… not that this would stop Apple Inc. from lying about it to the tune that Apple doens’t have security problems Bullfeces. Windows 7 is much, much more secure than OSX, and more stable too. Mac has obscurity working for it, but that’s not security; it’s ephemeral.

The next computer I get will run Windows 7, and the hardware/software will cost half of the equivalent Mac. I will have many more hardware choices, and software choices too.

Macs are for gullible/suggestible people. End of story.

How original…Just like Windows 7.

Sure I’ll try Windows 7, you buyin??? Windows 7 cost three times as much as OSX, depending on which version you want to get nickel and dimed on.

I prefer OSX. Even Microsoft’s OWN employee(s) state that their software is a total knockoff….”Apple is great, we copied OSX”.
http://thenextweb.com/2009/11/11/microsoft-admit-copied-apple/

I ask YOU, why would I want to buy an admitted copy, when I have the original?

Oh…If you want a preview of Windows 8, just buy the next version release of OSX.

LOL

I’m stating facts from past PC usage both at work and at home.

And your right, Norton is not mandatory. It’s a free country. You must keep Mcafee or some other fat and happy.

Enjoy your Windows 7 or whatever you use.

But, Snow Leopard copied memory randomization from Vista, and the anti-malware stuff too. Microsoft is still ahead on security, which is more important than pretty GUIs.

Question: On what do you base this misinformation? : “And what is the average worker age at MS now? Most are ready to cash their stocks in and retire. ”

About 10 years ago, a colleague of mine said: “Microsoft has had it.” Hmm, do you really think Microsoft will be gone 10 years from now?

Re. the Yahoo deal: CEO Jerry Yang screwed over everybody at that company, by introducting poison pills to block the deal. Yahoo subsequently tanked. What’s the CEO’s job? return value to the stockholder. What did Jerry do? The opposite. Why? I suspect it’s the same religious zeal that characterizes people who love, just LOVE, to hate Microsoft.

It’s always amusing when people object to Microsoft making $$. Apple, Google, and Microsoft are all corporations, and what’s the function of a corporation? Make money for the shareholder.

Really DUDE?

I don’t think Apple is worried at all about ANYTHING MS does. The MS design team now is basically copiers and followers and not innovators. MS has their old OS monopoly that you support, but nothing else. All they do now is buy up good companies with their billions and drive them into the ground. And Balmer is the worst CEO out their. He blew the Yahoo deal twice! That would have got them in the door against Google. They cannot do ANYTHING right. Why do you think their new software will be any different? Their track record speaks volumes to everyone in the industry.

And what is the average worker age at MS now? Most are ready to cash their stocks in and retire. The workers up there care little about the future of MS, just their millions after they sell their stock off!

Apple worried about MicroSoft. Hardly. The only thing Apple is worried about is MicroSoft spying on them.