Scott Alfter wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In article <1140208484.337324.83180@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>, <aiiadict@gmail.com> wrote:I know very few people who use Mac. In San Francisco, most people who own Mac's also wear designer shoes (no kidding).... It isn't about function, it's about appearance. "art" in the case design. The look of the OS. They ignore the lack of software, because they dont USE their computers for anything... It's just a nice looking box on the desk.If you're comparing Mac OS X to Windows, I think there are some very solid technical reasons to go with Mac OS X. A more secure system that's less vulnerable to viruses, spyware, and other malware should be an easy sell to anybody.
It's hard to know how much more secure OS X is than Windows XP. To make a real comparison you'd have to normalize to the number of attempts. Since Mac OS is a small target, it is attacked *very* much less than Windows platforms (like Linux). Surely you're not suggesting that Mac OS doesn't have lots of bugs that could be exploited if anyone made a serious attempt... One vulnerability per 100,000 lines of code is *great* code! And modern OSs have tens of millions of lines of code, therefore at least hundreds of exploitable flaws. Objective measures of code security would be nice to have, but are extremely difficult to come by in the absence of controlled experiments. This is, of course, different from system defaults that leave some doors open--which, admittedly, Windows still has (many have been fixed). -michael Music synthesis for 8-bit Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it is seriously underused."