Comments on: 5 Reasons To Not Buy a Mac

By: Kevin Ohashi

Kevin Ohashi — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:47:22 +0000

http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3788241/Apple+Recommends+Antivirus+for+Mac+Users.htm

Even Apple is recommending AV software since last year. That ‘useless’ argument seems to hold some water with the makers of the OS.

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:49:04 +0000

@ Peter – remember, you have to get some sort of reasonable market share before virus makers go after you

By: Peter Von Cleesen

Peter Von Cleesen — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:57:20 +0000

Since the day Mac OSX was released in the early 2000’s we’ve been hearing from people like you “well macs don’t have viruses now but wait until next year…”.

So should we again wait until 2010, Its been nearly 10 years of the same useless argument. Get over it already!

By: cello

cello — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:30:20 +0000

I have been using mac’s for the last 15 years. I was a total fan until my mac died after three years of normal use. I contacted Apple and they said that the life of a mac is only 3.5 years. Because I own all mac software I was forced to by another mac for even more money. Going forward I will be looking to switch to a PC because I can’t afford to replace my mac every three years. The main problem is the logic boards. Google logic boards for macs and you will find that there are thousands of people upset with the way that Apple is handling dying macs that where purchased about 3 years ago.

By: Roger Collins

Roger Collins — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:02:21 +0000

Macs are a luxury but well worth it if your time is valuable. Of course they are not perfect but every study and my own experience has shown they are more reliable than windows.

For this Internet age where much of the software we actually use runs on a LAMP server, your mac is more compatible than windows since it is BSD and runs all the software Linux does. Hmm, do we call that BAMP?

I use Parallels and Windows NT Professional on my mac just for the only two apps I use that need that old bag of drivers called Windows: Quicken and QuickBooks.

Once you go Mac you never go back.

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:40:38 +0000

If you bring your Mac into the Apple Store to be fixed, they usually say they need to send it out for repair and it will take a couple weeks. A couple weeks? I guess no one uses these for business.

By: SL

SL — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:52:28 +0000

Nice article. It’s worth mentioning that one benefit the Mac has is its kernel is BSD based. So the core permissions/security is beyond reproach. Privilege escalations will always be a problem for misbehaved apps. Having said that, imho Conficker wouldn’t stand a chance on BSD or Linux if the roles were reversed (Apple+Linux distros had 90% share).

But it does look like MS is starting to take security seriously. Give it about 5 years and it may be safe to use a Windows machine again; fingers crossed.

Totally agree with the hardware comments.