Comments on: New “Get a Mac” Ads Target Windows 7

By: Astrochimp

Astrochimp — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:01:00 +0000

@cc: you don’t get it. Malware writers aren’t doing it for the fame, as they were 1995-1999: they’re doing it for the money. Apple helps them by spreading FUD, and putting people at risk. But, hey, they don’t care: they just want to keep on selling their very expensive computers.

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.

By: Astrochimp

Astrochimp — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:50:29 +0000

@Michael: I think you’re betraying the real problem with Apple fans: they’re mental children, prone to sophomoric name-calling, because the facts don’t back them up.

By: Astrochimp

Astrochimp — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:48:47 +0000

@cc: well, good for Apple. They’re admitting that there is malware out there for Macs. So, tell me: whatis the advantage of Apple over Microsoft again, that would justify my spending roughly double for a pretty computer?

By: Astrochimp

Astrochimp — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:45:24 +0000

@paw and cc:
Yes, Windows 7 is more secure than any Mac OSX shipping to date. Check your facts, and don’t fall into the trap of confusing obscurity with security (especialy as Apple Inc. would very much like to set that trap for you).

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?

By: cc

cc — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:15:31 +0000

“Of course Apple can claim that they don’t have as many problems with viruses…less than one tenth as many computers should mean less viruses…right?”

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!

By: NIN Rocket

NIN Rocket — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:15:26 +0000

The new Apple commercials are just helping to sell more Windows 7. The young dude is so annoying. Not to mention the fact that Apple is using a lot of misleading information…like the virus stuff. Of course Apple can claim that they don’t have as many problems with viruses…less than one tenth as many computers should mean less viruses…right?

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.

By: A person

A person — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:51:14 +0000

cc, remember pwn2own? If Microsoft had Mac’s look and feel I would literally shoot myself, but look here I am. I also can tell that you, cc are not a very careful computer user, as in why the hell would you delete a uninstaller EVER?? I also can tell that you do not have ANY experience with Windows 7 because if you used it you would regret everything you said.

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

By: cc

cc — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:37:43 +0000

“It’s a good thing that Apple copies Microsoft in some respects, otherwise Mac OSX would have no security at all”

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!

By: Astrochimp

Astrochimp — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:49:49 +0000

It’s a good thing that Apple copies Microsoft in some respects, otherwise Mac OSX would have no security at all.

… 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.

By: BJ

BJ — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:20:45 +0000

I’m a Mac user of a couple of years now. My MacBook Pro is a nice machine. I have been very impressed with the look of Leopard and Snow Leopard. Still, I think the Apple world is far from perfect.
Hardware: Unfortunately, my MacBook Pro is the one with the DVD drive in the front. What’s wrong with it? – pick up the computer from the front to move to another room and you crush the DVD drive making it unusable.
Software/OS: I and others at the school where I work have experienced frequent freeze ups and program crashes, just like a PC. I have learned to hate that obnoxious rainbow wheel which may sit there spinning forever unless I do something to stop it.
Is the Mac better? Probably. Will I stick with it? Maybe. It certainly isn’t the perfect world that’s presented to us by those funny Apple ads.