Macs Hit With Bittorrent-embedded Malware Attack

[Mercy me]

My Mac has never crashed either. I have had my current computer for 5 years and it is completely up to date. That would not be the case for a PC.

[rkwright]

[quote name='CatholicCid' post='1764300' date='Jan 27 2009, 11:24 PM']Unsold. Toss it in the heap with the overs.[/quote]

I can kinda see this point. The Mac I have can't do gaming, I don't have a high end one. I had a high end PC that could run games, 2-3 years ago.

The deal with gaming is that it has gotten incredibly expensive on PCs. You probably need a $2,000 setup to play the games with good frame rates and decent graphics. Thats outrageous!

I bought an xbox a while back and haven't looked back since. I don't game often, but I'd rather spend the $199 on the xbox and have something that can perform as well as a $2,000 computer.

[scardella]

I did desktop support for both Macs and PCs at a medical school for some 3.5 years. We had an install base of ~30% Mac and ~70% PC. The PCs consistently took more than 90% of my time. And I was the "Mac guy", getting the majority of the Mac calls.

I can count on one hand the number of times my Mac at home has crashed.

Do you wonder why I prefer Macs?

The only way to keep indirect support for places like planned parenthood, etc. to a minimum is to build a PC from a mom-and-pop shop and run Linux.

Honestly, gaming on a console is more satisfying than on a PC the majority of the time... unless you have major $$$ to spend on it. (I've seen pictures of amazing rigs that people have put together for racing simulators, though... I'm not even going to think of flight sim buffs.)

The only reason this is news is because it's a rare event for Macs...
It'd be business as usual (malware everywhere) for PCs...

Edited January 28, 2009 by scardella

[Winchester]

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[ardillacid]

RTS and RPG's are worthless on consoles. Consoles have FPS, but not much else. I also need to use several CAD programs in my major. Macs are worthless to me.

[Winchester]

[quote name='notardillacid' post='1764836' date='Jan 28 2009, 04:21 PM']RTS and RPG's are worthless on consoles. Consoles have FPS, but not much else. I also need to use several CAD programs in my major. Macs are worthless to me.[/quote]
What about CRS's, NAVGAD's and WTH's?

[ardillacid]

[Sarah_JC]

[quote name='rkwright' post='1764332' date='Jan 28 2009, 12:59 AM']I can kinda see this point. The Mac I have can't do gaming, I don't have a high end one. I had a high end PC that could run games, 2-3 years ago.

The deal with gaming is that it has gotten incredibly expensive on PCs. You probably need a $2,000 setup to play the games with good frame rates and decent graphics. Thats outrageous!

I bought an xbox a while back and haven't looked back since. I don't game often, but I'd rather spend the $199 on the xbox and have something that can perform as well as a $2,000 computer.[/quote]

2000$ ? Maybe from a box store, with a monitor and other peripherals. Due to laptop demand, desktops are way cheaper than they were. But my FH just got a pretty spankin' new machine for 1100$ that will run any current game on full graphics. My desktop will be even cheaper (and still run World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Litch King on full frame-rate and scenery and effects.)

I'm really looking forward to it. I'm so over this Mac laptop. All it does is freeze up. And every time it gets too hot the wired internet connection dies. And the case is cracked. And I just replaced the battery because it super-died. So I'd say, if you don't need a monitor and such you can get a good computer, that will meet most games requirements for about 800$. And then you have your word processing, internet surfing stuff too.

[FPCthegreat]

Ok i must defend PC's Honor

I bought my PC for under 1000 dollars it can play cyrsis on Very High
that means it can play anything you throw at it with no problem a Mac with this power would cost you 10,000 and it would not be in laptop form

my PC has never crashed
my PC from 1995 has never crashed
my moms Mac crashed 3 days after buying
your macs never get viruses Have you ever ran a scan on it cause mac has 0 anti virus it doesn't warn you that you have one my friend did a scan on his for the first time in 3 years it had 10 virus

[scardella]

Who's claiming that Macs are the end-all be-all?

There are definitely cases where Macs are the best for the job.
There are also cases where PCs running Windows are the best.
There are cases where consoles are the best.
There are cases where Unix/Linux machines are the best.

It really depends on what you're doing with them.

However, it's my contention that, for everyday tasks of web browsing, email, listening to music, watching DVDs, and composing the occasional document, Macs are simple, safe and functional to a degree unmatched by PCs, Unix/Linux or consoles.

As an aside, virtualization software and web apps are making many of those complaints obsolete. (Of course, some performance-critical and use of specialized hardware would suffer, eg games. However, the vast majority of business apps, etc. run just fine in virtualized environments.) My last job consolidated some 20+ servers onto virtual machines on a blade center. My work laptop (a Vista computer, sigh) was able to play DVDs in Ubuntu in a VirtualBox virtual machine. It can also run XP in a virtual machine at near native speeds. (I use it when I need a VPN connection, but don't want to cut myself off from the rest of the 'net.)

Now, for games, there are many more for PCs than Macs. Granted, my interest in games is not RPGs, RTSs or FPSs. I've played my share of all three, however. My favorite RPG was the old-school Final Fantasy games, and they played just fine on a console. Much of it is UI design. RTSs do tend to suffer from a lack of a mouse, but then again, Macs have mice.

I certainly understand that many specialized apps (and face it, CAD/CAE/CAM software is a specialized app) are simply not available for Macs. There are also (gasp!) specialized software not available on PCs either.

You really have to be able to abstract your own position ("It doesn't work for me, therefore it stinks!") to be able to really give an objective review of a platform.

Edited January 29, 2009 by scardella

[KnightofChrist]

I have the 'best' of both worlds, a Mac than can run any Windoze, Linux, or Unix OS I wish.

[Seven77]

[quote name='KnightofChrist' post='1766143' date='Jan 29 2009, 09:34 PM']I have the 'best' of both worlds, a Mac than can run any Windoze, Linux, or Unix OS I wish.[/quote]

word.