We all knew with the gaining popularity of Macs...

[aramism]

james:

reverse elitism FTW!

best term to describe PC people.

 

[fade_2_black]

Woah thats a shame for mac users.. Doesnt affect me however, im far from being able to afford a decent mac

 

[James Murphy]

Woah thats a shame for mac users.. Doesnt affect me however, im far from being able to afford a decent mac

nope, it's nothing very new at all.... read the whole thread.

 

[Melodeath]

Viruses downloading in the background?

You aren't going to get a virus on your PC just sitting at your computer connected to the internet. You have to actively do something to get one--much akin to having to install this torrent download on the mac.

 

[dailybreadman]

If you're dumb enough to get a virus on a PC, then you're dumb enough to warrant purchasing a Mac.

 

[devouredremains]

Seriously ladies, saying this is beating a dead horse would be just that. I see good threads get passed over on a daily basis here and these worthless threads rehashing this crap explode with people racing to prove which OS is superior. Both have their strengths and weaknesses and I'm just happy we are able to choose which platform we enjoy working with the most!

 

[jhrv]

Seriously ladies, saying this is beating a dead horse would be just that. I see good threads get passed over on a daily basis here and these worthless threads rehashing this crap explode with people racing to prove which OS is superior. Both have their strengths and weaknesses and I'm just happy we are able to choose which platform we enjoy working with the most!

+1!

 

[Ermz]

*yawn*

 

[Joematthews]

If you're dumb enough to get a virus on a PC, then you're dumb enough to warrant purchasing a Mac.

Even if you think this is the truth, you should still shut the fuck up because enough threads have gone this way already.

Joe

 

[Kazrog]

Viruses downloading in the background?

You aren't going to get a virus on your PC just sitting at your computer connected to the internet. You have to actively do something to get one--much akin to having to install this torrent download on the mac.

It happens and I've proven it at my old job multiple times, much to the dismay of stunned IT officials, as recently as 2007. Get a new Windows XP Pro SP2 based-PC workstation fresh out of the Dell or HP factory packaging. Connect ethernet port to a firewalled, routed, professionally run LAN connection at a Fortune 500 company office. Boot up, and wait about 20 minutes. Literally don't do anything except turn the machine on, just let it sit at whatever default Windows first-run nags.

Then install Norton and run a first check. No fewer than 50 viruses, spyware programs, worms, trojans, and other bits of malware auto-downloaded in 20 minutes every time I tried this. It was always slightly different, which to me indicates there are massive botnets searching for specific root-level vulnerabilities in Windows OS's across vast IP ranges.

This has been my experience. More recently, I've been running XP and Windows 7 beta on a couple of test boxes, with AVG installed, and I have yet to have any problems with either, but the experiences I had testing/proving my theory in 2006 and 2007 are hard to forget. I had multiple witnesses each time, all of whom were certified IT professionals.

 

[James Murphy]

Viruses downloading in the background?

You aren't going to get a virus on your PC just sitting at your computer connected to the internet. You have to actively do something to get one--much akin to having to install this torrent download on the mac.

yeah... right... read Kazrog's post above if you haven't already.

If you're dumb enough to get a virus on a PC, then you're dumb enough to warrant purchasing a Mac.

yes.. all Mac users are dumb.. that's exactly correct. you stay in the smart club, i'll stay in the dumb club... because boy do i feel dumb having bought a mac and practically never having the slightest problem with it since day one. i'm basically retarded.

Even if you think this is the truth, you should still shut the fuck up because enough threads have gone this way already.

Joe

exactly... every time this subject comes up, a dozen shitheads who've never worked a day in their lives yet and still live at home with their mommies and daddies, and probably spent a summer in a computer camp sometime within the last 5 years, love to pipe up with how dumb all the professionally working engineers on this forum are that use Macs and/or the Mac OS.

let me phrase this as delicately, sensitively, and professionally as i can:

lick. my. nutz.


now go cry about it to someone who cares, and think about me, working uninterrupted by crashes or viruses, or anything else for the last year solid.... then call me a "mac elitist" and accuse me of being trendy and hanging out with my macbook at starbucks. blah blah blah.

 

[Wolfeman]

It's threads like these that make me miss my Commodore 64 :-(

 

[James Murphy]

Atari!!

 

[LSD-Studio]

I had a Schneider CPC 464.....played "bomber" on it

 

[dan weapon]

Xenon 2 megablast muthafuckers.

 

[Joematthews]

James actually agrees with me for once even though no one but the person who posted that could disagree after the mighty "persuade me to go mac" thread

Joe

 

[Razorjack]

I had a Schneider CPC 464.....played "bomber" on it

It was an Amstrad in the UK, was my first computer.

 

[LSD-Studio]

It was an Amstrad in the UK, was my first computer.

yeah, Schneider was the German distributor....same thing cept for the colored keys.

Bomber is the only game I can really remember though...

4Mhz, lol

 

[Notuern]

I has penis in my pants, this thread does not.

 

[-Noodles-]

I has penis in my pants, this thread does not.

Strangely, I understand what you're saying there.