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“Sorry, you’re wrong. All M$ OSes have design comprimises that make then unsecure. Add to that, their typical sloppy programming, and you have tons of security holes. Macs are more secure by design. That’s a fact and anybody who says any different, either has no clue about security, has their head in the sand, or makes money off the M$ platform.”

A lot of the security compromises exist not because of mere programming or design flaws, but because of trade-offs. For instance, Windows XP performs far better in terms of responsiveness than OS X, given the same hardware. I know this for a fact since I actually run both Windows and OS X on my one Intel Mac and it’s very clear which OS makes more efficient use of hardware.

Some of the security compromises like being able to create hooks into code can be very useful to a software engineer. Unfortunately they also leave room for malicious use, but that’s true of many good things. Owning a DVD burner allows one to illegally copy DVDs (and so many people do this), but that doesn’t mean that DVD burners are purely evil.

Furthermore, limiting flexibility easily allows one to write tighter and more robust software. OS X (as well as X Windows) is often a lot more limited in terms of its API and its UI than Windows. When it comes to interface customization, OS X applications are typically far more limited by nature. For some, that may justify the added robustness one can find, but for others like me, that may not be the case.

Finally, software isn’t necessarily more stable on Mac than Windows. To make a semi-fair comparison (no comparison can be truly fair), we need to look at software which exists for both platforms. Lightwave, for instance, is FAR more robust on the PC than Mac. Just look at the history of bug reports, and it’s clear that the Windows version is WAY more stable. The same is true of Maya. With Doom 3, aside from the fact that PC hardware of the same price floors G5’s, I also experienced a lot more crashes on the G5 over my PC. When it comes to Photoshop CS, however, my PC version was admittedly less stable. Still, I remember Photoshop 6 in school on the G4 crashed a whole lot.

For the most part, I’ve found software that exists on both platforms to generally be stable on the Windows side. That’s most likely attributed to the fact that Windows versions have a much higher demand, so developers tend to prioritize the Windows versions when it comes to testing and bug fixes.

But in all seriousness, quit this crap. What the guy meant in that article is that APPLE likes to falcify or sway or skew their wording. I just dont understand how they can compare it to a PC. A mac and pc are completely different, just wait until someone will compare the fasted intel duo core vs a amd athlon dual core or the new AM2 processor. And then we’ll see who’s faster or not. But we must understand that macs and pcs are completely different platforms. The biggest reason why I’m a pc user is the games, my geforce can kick ass, and it works great and i dont have to wait 4 years until an upgrade comes around. And i dont have to worry about buying the wrong hardware that wouldnt work with a mac.

http://www.newegg.com baby!!!!

Anyways please quit this argument, its just stupid.

as for it being “silent” obviously you’ve never put a CD in the drive. It is louder than my car.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSX
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29

Long time known aspect of this oft repeated line: ‘Writing viruses for Mac is not any harder than writing for Win machines, it’s just that the honey pot isn’t there.’

Sorry, you’re wrong. All M$ OSes have design comprimises that make then unsecure. Add to that, their typical sloppy programming, and you have tons of security holes. Macs are more secure by design. That’s a fact and anybody who says any different, either has no clue about security, has their head in the sand, or makes money off the M$ platform.

I have read many good things about mac, and I am buying myself one for Christmas. the Mini. the medium one with wireless… I am beginning to like OS X!

Why support M$? So Mr. Gates can steal coding for another OS, and put a tag with his name on it? Go OS X!

Plus they make dells look like crap