Posted by Tim Streater on 07/13/07 22:35

In article <5fq7v3F3demmdU1@mid.individual.net>,
Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com> wrote:

> Tim Streater wrote:
> > Travis Newbury <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> And you know to tell you the truth, I really don't have a
> >> problem with windows.
> >> I have AVG virus checker running ...
> >
> > These two statements don't go together very well.
> >
> > Personally I would throw the windows machine in the trash and use a Mac.
>
> I hope you aren't implying that Macs are immune to attacks, because that
> is patently false.

Win: 114,000 and counting
Mac: None known.

> Besides, a little prudence regarding AV is simple
> common sense these days. I've been using MS stuff since before Windows
> and have had exactly 1 virus in all that time, and that was many years ago.
>
> BTW, I think Mac is the clumsiest box I ever had to work with. I don't
> get the zeal some people have for them at all.

Oh really? Funny, I do all my web development on one. having said that,
though, the Win version of Eudora is much the better so at work I keep
an XP lappy just for that.

And the Mac is not clumsy, either. I lost count of the number of times
under XP where it won't let me move a file, just because it's open. On
the Mac, you move a file elsewhere on a volume, the apps simply adjust
to the new reality. That's the OS working for me instead of the other
way around.

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