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Kasz216 on 08 April 2010
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DeltaXIII said:
johntonsoup said:
Haha, I love how people just assume that Macs are for people who don't understand computers. Actually, the percentage of software developers who use Macs is much higher than the percentage of the general population who use Macs.

Macs are superior in a lot of ways: security, stability, ease of use, developer tools, and very high efficiency and control for user applications.

PCs (running Windows) are also superior in a lot of ways: many more hardware customization/upgrading options, the availability of very cheap components, and a vastly larger selection of software (especially games).

In my opinion, it all comes down to personal choice. I like them both and I think people that argue that "people that use operating system ___ are insane, stupid, or deluded" should probably take a look in the mirror.

I will try to look for it tonight, but I remember reading from some computer related convention (or some such) where they had tests of cracking into systems (windows, mac and linux) and someone (or people) commented that the mac wasn't particularly more secure than the windows systems. From my understanding, it has beem more of a lack of people trying to break in because it is a "better" use of their time to try to break into windows anyhow. This was probably from a couple years ago though, so I can't say about the status of current systems.

Also in my experience, I haven't really had stability problems with my windows machines for several years. Unless we want to discuss hardware related, but that's a different subject. Whereas I remember back in the day when I was in elementary school, the macs back then had plenty of crashes, but I'm well aware that the current systems are supposed to be very good about it. I haven't had really any long term use of macs for awhile, so I can't speak on the other points. I'm not really against the mac operating system. I do take some issue with the price Apple charges for some of their hardware though, but that just means I can continue voting with my wallet.

I believe what you are looking for is this.

http://www.itworld.com/mac-hacked-first-in-contest-080327

It's actually easier to hack a Mac then Windows... if your actually trying to.

 

Macs are safter then PCs from viruses in the same way that Milwalkee is after then New York from terrorism.  Terrorists could hit it easier, but there isn't much point.