New guy screwed up badly!

[banana380]

Just get Norton, it's much cheaper than a mac.

Norton is a hassle, always popping up and asking permission for things that should be obvious...

Mac just doesn't really get attacked because the software is written more robustly. You get what you pay for

[Stogies]

Maybe it will make you feel better but I have a friend in Germany that usually follows my threads here. He's EXTREMELY computer savvy - but ended up getting his machine infected, too!

[psunder]

Norton is a hassle, always popping up and asking permission for things that should be obvious...

Mac just doesn't really get attacked because the software is written more robustly. You get what you pay for

That’s like telling someone that since they might get a girl pregnant and since condoms are always a hassle, they should go gay. From software (who need viruses when your computer will sabotage you straight from the factory?), to hardware (look at a Mac teardown evaluation from any reputable website), to performance (approximately 1/3 to 1/2 the performance-per-cost), to software (1/100th the number of programs, 10 times of which are payware instead of freeware); Macs are nothing but a piece of equipment that entitle their owners to join a cult of others who feel they are better that anyone else. It really is as simple as that, scientology in a piece of electronics.

[banana380]

That’s like telling someone that since they might get a girl pregnant and since condoms are always a hassle, they should go gay. From software (who need viruses when your computer will sabotage you straight from the factory?), to hardware (look at a Mac teardown evaluation from any reputable website), to performance (approximately 1/3 to 1/2 the performance-per-cost), to software (1/100th the number of programs, 10 times of which are payware instead of freeware); Macs are nothing but a piece of equipment that entitle their owners to join a cult of others who feel they are better that anyone else. It really is as simple as that, scientology in a piece of electronics.

I always hear PC owners talk bad about Macs, but never hear many mac users talk bad about the platform... It's popular for a reason.

People still buy Windows computers because they're cheap. Some specialty fields require them, but for Joe Public, a Mac will do most anything that needs to be done.


And BTW your first post probably shouldn't be bashing the honest input of a regular, long time member... It's less enforced at this point but the rules advise you to post in the new members forum.

[Stogies]

That’s like telling someone that since they might get a girl pregnant and since condoms are always a hassle, they should go gay. From software (who need viruses when your computer will sabotage you straight from the factory?), to hardware (look at a Mac teardown evaluation from any reputable website), to performance (approximately 1/3 to 1/2 the performance-per-cost), to software (1/100th the number of programs, 10 times of which are payware instead of freeware); Macs are nothing but a piece of equipment that entitle their owners to join a cult of others who feel they are better that anyone else. It really is as simple as that, scientology in a piece of electronics.

I don't know about that ... if Macs were really as useless I think they would have run their course by now but they have not.

[psunder]

I always hear PC owners talk bad about Macs, but never hear many mac users talk bad about the platform... It's popular for a reason.

They are not popular, they account for less than 5% of the market worldwide and are generally seen by the rest of the world as a curious US peculiarity.

People still buy Windows computers because they're cheap. Some specialty fields require them, but for Joe Public, a Mac will do most anything that needs to be done.

People generally do not buy PCs solely because they are cheap, but rather because they are a better value. To think that the billions of PC purchases represent an aberrant statistical phenomena where consumers are incorrectly assigning economic value is quite a stretch.

And BTW your first post probably shouldn't be bashing the honest input of a regular, long time member... It's less enforced at this point but the rules advise you to post in the new members forum.

Posting frequently in a forum does not make one immune from criticism. When I see someone being steered toward what I believe could be a thousand dollar mistake, I interject. It’s nothing personal.