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scardeal
scardeal Reader
9/7/10 2:07 p.m.
HiTempguy wrote: Wait, can't you make Windows a dual-boot option on Mac's now?

Dual booting is SOOO 20th century. The cool kids run virtualised instances.

rob_lewis
rob_lewis Dork
9/7/10 2:27 p.m.

Two anti-Mac comments and I'll go back in my hole....

If you have a 10 year old mac with a 10 year old OS you aren't out of luck, you can run most anything available today.

Uh, no. Bought my son a Mac Mini to use at home since that's what they use at school. Probably bought $500 worth of software "...for Mac OS 10.x or higher" and not a darn one of them worked. The Mac store told me they had no way of telling whether it would run on his Mini or not.

.....you're running windows, and you're just as vulnerable to viruses and problems as you would be on any PC. All the Mac/*nix security goes out the window.

If you were a hacker, would you hack for 5% of the market or 85% of the market? I would argue that Mac's are no safer (especially now that they run on Linux, since Unix hacks have been around since the dawn of time). Besides, who wants to write a virus for some teachers and artsy types, anyway?

-Rob

HiTempguy
HiTempguy HalfDork
9/7/10 4:07 p.m.
scardeal wrote:
HiTempguy wrote: Wait, can't you make Windows a dual-boot option on Mac's now?
Dual booting is SOOO 20th century. The cool kids run virtualised instances.

I make my computers last 4 years at a time, the first PC we had at home we owned brand new from 94 or 95 till 99 (pentium 1 bitches)! That was $5k I don't know was well spent lol.

I did know about the whole intel chip thing and Mac's being able to actually run windows.

And finally, the ONLY, and I REPEAT, ONLY REASON ANYBODY GETS VIRUSES IS ONE OF TWO WAYS:

-watching pr0n - and if you are getting viruses watching pr0n nowadays, you are doing it wrong.

-clicking crap you shouldn't be

Don't do that and you'll be fine. I haven't ran antivirus in 6 years.

DrBoost
DrBoost Dork
9/8/10 5:26 a.m.
EastCoastMojo wrote: I'm a little confused on how Osama got mixed in with this, but all I can say is "Word".

The same kind of hatred my brother

EastCoastMojo
EastCoastMojo GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
9/8/10 8:28 a.m.

Fo' shizzle my bizzle.

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