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NOS2Go4Me,Feb 10 2009, 01:52 PM Wrote:Actually, the ideal PC is one running Ubuntu 8.04 or better (in my experience), although any recent version of Ubuntu makes you be a USER unless maintenance or installs force you to administrative on the box. The complete lack of software advertising on that setup keeps Ubuntu from being a business or home world threat to Mac or PC in the near term.

In the security world, it's hard to crash @ 100 MPH if you're governed to 30.

It's also hard to get onto the freeway and cause a multi-car pileup if you're restricted to the byways.

The only thing saving Macs from the majority of the worst stuff out there is that virus / script-writers are lazy and are targeting the largest slice of the user community out there - the stupid ones. And 99.99% of them have PCs.

Macs no longer have hardware or exclusive software to keep them "trendy". It's all visual now, all user perception.

And as for the "crashing software" herring... the only software that crashes regularly is badly-ported software from one platform to the next, badly-coded software (can happen in any OS, really) and sadly software that depends on the latest and greatest ".NET framework". I can't even begin to express my frustration at how legions of coders are not even building real programs anymore these days. They depend on MS for their latest "feature fix" and differing patch levels (between code and .NET) can easily break things over and over again.

My MySQL development box is 6 years old, has 512MB of RAM and runs Windows 2000 Server. My webhost box at home is about the same age with a single 1GHz P-III Xeon and my 2nd dev box is a quad-processor 500MHz box with 1GB RAM and 2 RAID arrays for SQL and IIS/Apache.

The type of box (Mac/PC) and age have nothing to do with one another. All consumable parts will wear out eventually and replacements will be unavailable. Anything longer than 6 years is a lucky run, actually.
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Sorry Adam, but I never needed to pay attention to any of this "jibberish"
I own a Mac and it works.


How can you use a computer where you have to worry about stuff like that all the time??? It would drive me to drink if I was constantly wondering if my machine was getting the required 1.1. gigawatts it's needs to run better than a Mac.

Face it... owning a PC is way more bloody work.