Apple suggests Mac users to install antivirus software

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redspear said:

Senlis said:
The benefit of owning a Mac really lies with it's stability. Since MacOS runs on Mac hardware, it is ideal for things such as video and picture editing.

Perhaps Mac is not more secure than Windows. However, if you really wanted security, you should go for Linux. Each OS has it's strenths and weaknesses.

Windows: Wide support base
Mac: Stability
Linux: Security

I prefer using hte Windows enviroment for vido work I am not big on photography so I don't know so much about that. The one thing that Macs have for this type of thing that i can state soundly is that the native color tools are superior in macs. But having used both Macs and PCs on properly built machines I can say that Mac does not have an advantage in stability in fact it does crash more often then the Windows machine......It is just called a kernel panic. Usually the patches fix this but then creates new ones. For me the most frustratng one was having the mac crash over the network when using adobe products(hint it was stable before the update and after the next update).

As of right now Windows has two advantages in this field actually three.

 

1. More codec support

2. 64 bit photoshop CS4 until Adobe straightens out the Cocoa issue.

3. Faster(Every time I do things on the equivelent specced machines between the two Windows seems to get this stuff down at least 3 minutes faster) I hear Itunes is much faster on a Mac but since I don't use that it doesn't matter to me.

The big Mac advantages are

 

1. FCP which is becomimng more the industry standard...though Avid is still better IMO and Adobe is catching up.

2. Advanced Color Tools as mentioned earlier this is a biggy and it is easier to calibrate your screen and set diffirent profiles on a Mac.

 

As for this notice I have been telling people this for the past year since the malicous widgets started popping up and web kit exploits starting to pop in and out with updates.

 

 

2. 64 bit photoshop CS4 until Adobe straightens out the Cocoa issue.  ..... that is pissing me off, they made a partially 64 bit studio for ppc back on cs2, why the hell does it take so long to catch up on intel.... My old ppc tower can use all 8 avalible gig of ram in photoshop cs 2, but not in 3, or 4 ... so i mainly still use 2 same with illustrator (I ran a test.... one should never have multi gig illustrator files)