Through high school and the University with a PC has been a frustrating experience for me, even a very tech-savvy users. I built PCs for friends, knew Windows in and out, problems solved, the me... I was not the average user. However, I had my fair share of issues of viruses up to hard disk crashes, constant reinstalling of the operating system for one reason or another battle. Some of the time, it was because of the Windows would slow down in the course of time. Many of my friends ECHO this concern also.
I had never seen Macs at this time, mainly due to the price, but also because of the darkness. I not someone had or used a Mac outside of art professionals. In my Canadian elementary school we had used some Macs, but no one. Like others, I have my PC for games, an application that the Mac never really too picked up today. So I covered only the problems.
If I had finished my degree and returned home, the idea of a Mac has me, and I bought a white MacBook. This purchase, I followed up with two iMacs, a unibody MacBook Pro and a MacBook Air. I have the Apple router, the Airport extreme. Why I do this? I no longer wanted the problems to deal. Although I liked gaming and the openness of the PC platform, I wanted to have only a reliable computer, I could deal with as a unit. I looked over at the 9 24 "iMac, which I due to the screen questions, returned because the promise reliability was just too big."
Sure enough, behavior as devices for the most part. No problems for a good time. No viruses, no crashes. Sure, I had far and wide to find to do software, what I wanted, like download newsgroups, or convert video in certain formats are looking for, but I thought this was part of the price for reliable computing. I would even look past the most annoying things, like how slow GHz dual-core was the 2.8 iMac conversion of video when compared to a PC at the same price.
But then I started to notice something. Macs were not immune to viruses, which would make art, who believe the advertising. My Macs to intercept a small, kind of harmless Yahoo virus news would send out, even if we were offline. I turned an eye on them. What happens next my eyes really open. I was my basement for rent and had it put my iLife CD and other Mac boxes and materials in the store, so I quickly decided to load you from a torrent site. It had a virus in it. This virus slows down the computer to a crawl, and I didn't really notice until I tried, restart in boot camp (the Windows partition). To my surprise, it was damaged, and basically gone, along with any work I had on this partition. I then tried to reboot, in Mac OS X, which also was and damaged. I had even more things on the Mac partition and I lost it all (with precious pictures).
They say boo hoo you anything from a torrent site is downloaded, you should know better. Should I use? What does Apple marketing is you believe? I was not aware the Mac virus, and do not believe that I based on the way, that not only Apple itself, but also many Mac users should have. Possibly from torrent site, but tomorrow, what you download from another Web site, a free program have perhaps a virus. They are spread only, now that Apple computers are picking up popularity. There are millions of people buy Macs think that they are better computer, inherently immune to viruses.
And it gets worse. The antivirus software for the Mac is just terrible. It is in the very early stages of development and is rarely updated. It catch not good for all viruses. Basically, is useless, and would have worked not in my situation. So you have no protection. I also think that, if the Mac, which from the outset too expensive and marketed as evidence of virus antivirus needs, what is the selling point? PCs need antivirus, but at least the antivirus programs work and viruses to catch, and you have to give up no value, expandability, performance or software compatibility for no reason!
Now check this out. I needed to get back my data from the corrupted Mac OS X partition, so if I was Mac reinstall, I created an image of the partition, and the installer that said image verified it was fine. Later, I was not in a position to use it. It again certain technical errors that I investigated, and found out that other poor users had the same experience! However, nothing could be done, and it turns out, even Apple technicians had trouble, the decryption of the problems with the dmg file (there are huge threads about this on Apple forums).
At the end I so have the extensibility, gaming, performance and most importantly, software compatibility for something that really worse messed with me as would a PC. PC would have caught the virus, have it get rid of, and I would have everything intact. I ended up selling the iMacs and for the price that I put my iMac 24 "sold, I bought an Intel Core i7-powered system with 12 GB RAM, running Windows 7 Beta for a while now with no hiccups at all." I once heard someone describe the virus problem for PCs and Macs as follows - using a PC is like the tank best in the U.S. Army, fully armored and in the middle of a crazy battlefield heavily armed and with a Mac is like in a T-shirt and shorts in the middle of a cornfield in Iowa. I think that analogy is sent; with a Mac the chances are low attacked (for now), but if you ever with a virus are faced (and you will at some point), you can rest assured, you're going down big time.
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by Jeremiah Carmichael
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