newheart wrote:
“The usual argument is “security.” True enough. IT fears Macs because we don’t need them the way PC users do.”
I had a nice Apple Mac, I could not give the thing away, i paid literally to ship it to a third world country where they (family) would appreciate it.
I can give away PCs all day long in this country but nobody really wants a mac.
I’m not crapping on the apples, I bought my wife a Ipod Nano 8 gig (a few months ago) and I will be buying myself a new Apple 80Gig classic very soon (thanks to the wife who wanted my 8 gig)
When apple owns more market share, the spammers and hackers will be knocking down the door.
Until then, Apple users should not be bragging about security. IMO.
Go ahead, i got my flame suit on, I’m just being honest and stating it how it is.
-1fastglock45
What is that magic number, FastGlock?How many Mac OSX users will it take before spammers and hackers will be knocking down the door? Especially when you know that at least 90% of them run no anti-malware on their Macs, have more disposable income than PC users, and are, according to PC users at least, unsophisticated computer illiterates?
Is 10,000,000 enough of a target? How about 20,000,000?
Self propagating viruses have been written by hackers for vulnerable populations of 12,000 machines. Viruses have been written for populations of under 1,000... but somehow the crackers who will write for those miniscule numbers refuse to write a viable virus for a population that is now 32,000,000 and growing far faster than the computer market in general. That strikes me as a significant target... that still has ZERO viable viruses in the wild, ZERO viable spayware,
I had a nice Apple Mac, I could not give the thing away, i paid literally to ship it to a third world country where they (family) would appreciate it.
How old was your "nice Apple Mac and how long ago did this event take place," Fast? I find it hard to believe you had to pay to get rid of it. Macs hold their resale value far beyond PCs... that's been proven time after time in numerous studies.A six year old iMac that sold originally for $1300 still brings $350-$450 on eBay or Craig's List... yet you had to pay someone to ship it to a poor family overseas? Heck, 10 year old original iMacs still bring $100 when you count shipping costs... and they can run, albeit slowly, OSX.5 Leopard.
My five year old PowerMac G5 Tower, that I bought new in June 2003 for $1799 is still being sold on eBay (as of April 6, 2008) for $650 - $900. And it runs Leopard faster than it did Tiger, which was faster on the same hardware than Panther before that. How many PCs of that vintage would bring those kinds of prices? And how many PCs of that vintage could even load the latest incarnation of Windows? None.