Macs vs. PCs
I'll admit I don't know much about windows anymore, having not used a windows OS since my (very underfunded) computer graphics class (hell, we were using 3 year old Dells with windows 98...). I go by what I see. I see a single virus causing millions of dollars in damage. I see blatantly obvious holes in windows that a moron could exploit (people could put viruses in JPEGs for craps sake, and IE would let em go to work without question). I see my iMac, wich hasn't had a systemwide crash in two years (and I use this thing daily). I see the number of real viruses for Mac OS X, which is exactly one (and you have to install it yourself and give it an admin password or it won't work!).
As for games, Mac has Halo (Halo 2 at some point), the quake series, Starcraft, Warcraft, Wolfire's games, and a myriad of others that I don't play. I don't WANT 7000 crappy games with a few gems, I just want the gems
As for games, Mac has Halo (Halo 2 at some point), the quake series, Starcraft, Warcraft, Wolfire's games, and a myriad of others that I don't play. I don't WANT 7000 crappy games with a few gems, I just want the gems
As a Mac-faithful person, who has to deal with PC's (especially PC games) I must say that it's total bs. There are more great games on the PC side. Macintosh is still an awful choice for gamers.Gramage wrote: As for games, Mac has Halo (Halo 2 at some point), the quake series, Starcraft, Warcraft, Wolfire's games, and a myriad of others that I don't play. I don't WANT 7000 crappy games with a few gems, I just want the gems
And you are speaking about the "gems"...
Well, you've hit the nail on the head. Mac = fun tool. PC = pure toy.Flickta wrote:As a Mac-faithful person, who has to deal with PC's (especially PC games) I must say that it's total bs. There are more great games on the PC side. Macintosh is still an awful choice for gamers.Gramage wrote: As for games, Mac has Halo (Halo 2 at some point), the quake series, Starcraft, Warcraft, Wolfire's games, and a myriad of others that I don't play. I don't WANT 7000 crappy games with a few gems, I just want the gems
And you are speaking about the "gems"...
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Also, Windows is just plain unreliable. Since 10.1, my machine has NEVER crashed. macs are the MOST reliable (with the exception of Unix, which Mac OS X is built on) machines out there. I believe Mac OS X's main problems, which a virus could use, is the sudo command. (also, you can take over a computer if you put in the first Mac OS X install disk, and boot it up on that. you can reset the admin password that way). On the XPs we use at school, I changed the passwords to the administrator just by going to Users and Passwords. Talk about bad security.
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nope, I have thought of this, but then I found out that sudo requires a password.Nayr wrote: I believe Mac OS X's main problems, which a virus could use, is the sudo command.
btw to destroy a UNIX system
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cd /
sude rm -r *
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