Thread: For all the Mac haters amongst us.

do I jump in and rant and rave or do I not

Many years ago I owned an Apple IIE (it had an amazing 64k of internal memory) and then I changed over to the 'dark side'. Years later it took a chance encounter, followed by another ever so brief little flirtation, and I was back on the path to enlightenment.

Now, 3 years later, I'm fully converted from my back-slidden ways. My Apple MacBook Pro Core2Duo is still going strong, not the slightest hint of trouble, still powering up in a fraction of the time that I used to waste, and still not the slightest hint of a viral sneeze. Oh what bliss!

Trouble is, in our household I remain surrounded by those inferior machines - and not so knowledgable users - so I'm forever finding myself fixing up antivirus updates, hardware conflicts and general 'issues' with the damn things. Ah well... life wasn't meant to be easy!

Macs make great fishing sinkers ... seriously!

Is it true that Macs don't get virus attacks? If it is true then I would be saving money by not having to buy these anti-virus programmes.
I had a anti-virus thing installed when I got onto Bigpond, was going good for a while until it wouldn't download the latest anti-virus settings. I was on the phone for a week trying to communicate with non-english speaking people. When that didn't work I called Telstra and complained about the trouble with conversing with these people at their call centres.
Their replay was that they weren't discrimatory in their policy of hiring people.
To cut this short I ended up deleting the anti-virus programme and having to buy something else.
So if Macs don't have problems with viruses that is where I am heading.
Cheers,
Mike

Apple OS does get virus's/trojan's not many but they are out there.
Save yourself some $$$ and downloads microsofts FREE anti-virus program:

http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

only reason I dont use mac personally is all the people I do service and support for use bloody windows and not mac or unix/linux so Im stuck having to be fluent in bloody microsnot.

funnily not one of them drives a landy.

If mac could only match the budget price of some of the lower end pcs and the wife wasnt scared of it Id be on it like a shot.,

nearly forgot if you want to see an apple lover squirm mention USB3 and 10,000-rpm hard drives

but they wont know what your talking about

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

only reason I dont use mac personally is all the people I do service and support for use bloody windows and not mac or unix/linux so Im stuck having to be fluent in bloody microsnot.

I don't really hate APPLE I just can't see why apple users bang on about how great they are when they run exactly the same hardware as PC's
Intel boards, nvidia video, slow HDD's etc.......the ONLY thing that makes an apple stand out is the OS and thats what your paying the PREMIUM price for.