Senlis on 22 October 2008
| theprof00 said: HAH. The only reason, and I really mena the ONLY reason why Mac has had a good OS (notice that i say HAS, since their latest one is balls) is because they do not compete on teh same level as Microsoft. Windows is the way it is for a reason, compatibility concerns and safety concerns. If Apple reaches even a tenth of the market share that MS has, the hackers will surely come out of the woodwork, and then we'll see how good apple is. Because as of right now, you can buy a suped-up pc through Maximum-pc like falcon northwest, maingear, cyberpower, alienware for the same price as a mac that will blow the similarly priced apple out of the water in terms of processing/rendering power and are just as stylish if not more so. (also alienware can be bought with a lifetime warranty) Vista has its problems, but lets not turn this into a mac vs pc war, because there is no war. Macs are safe because nobody cares, HOWEVER.... Some hackers are now targetting mac not for money involved but because of Apple's arrogance. |
I would have to disagree with this. The reason Mac computers are so expensive is that they do not gear their computers to the budget market. If you priced a PC with the same processing power, HDD space, RAM, mobo ect. that a certain Mac has, you will find thier prices to be comparable. I remember reading an article about this on tomshardware.com with the comparison. I will see if I can find it.
I would agree that Mac OSX has less viruses because of a smaller user base. However, Mac OSX is made in a way to prevent infection. One thing that comes to mind is the lack of dependance on extentions Windows has that hackers can exploit.
