Apple suggests Mac users to install antivirus software

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steven787 said:

goddog said:

a12331 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 dont get why people say this no offense, but you can make a more powerful system with windows and it can do those tasks much faster, also macs do crash a lot. Windows mainly crash because of bad third party software. 

 

id argue with all of your points, ive always been able to reneder video faster on macs (especially durring the powerpc era) or have photoshop work better.  from primer to avid its always faster.... and final cut is exclusive, and fun... i find it better then avid, and primer, though with recent changes in primer (well not recent anymore) it has become better

as for constant crashing, sounds like a hard drive problem, normally that or someone mangled the libraries.

as for windows, ture if it wasnt for 3rd parites it wouldnt crash as much, but what good is the OS without them... unless you just want word processing powers.

 

In my experience with Vista, I found that true crashes hardly happen.  First, it corrects problems, it may temporarly freeze but rarely crashes.  When it does crash, the restoration features are great in Windows Vista.  Crashes and Virus may be less likely to occur in a Macs, but they tend to be catostrophic to your work when the do happen.  (I use Macs at school, because there's a free color printer in the Mac lab and some other neat gadgets; they crash all the time.  Not saying my PC doesn't but it's less often.)

Also, if a PC is built right it will run circles around any Macs available.  PC's suffer from inconsistency but an informed buyer can get more for their money.

the fastest xp/vista laptop was the macbook pro, as featured in pc magazine 8-9 months ago (im pretty sure of the time frame, but may be off).

also in your lab i bet your dealling with networked macs, with launcher sys apps that track what you do... those things kill macs, most of them are written rather poorly. also i bet your using  word on mac which is also written poorly,  most universities ive visited the macs are very poorly maintained, I remember when i was at UTK, they had never been updated after being installed.. i did a dumb thing and worked around the protocalls to update them, but they were much better after that