Mac OS X forum: Interesting information about Apple

Currently there are NO virus's for OS X. None whatsoever, despite the recent announcements of LeapA and the Bluetooth thing.
Neither are virus's and neither can propagate. The Bluetooth problem was patched over 6 months ago and it was only a "proof of concept" that does not exist in the wild.
Leap A required someone with administrative rights to supply the correct password to install it. A non-event.

Mac OS X does not crash nearly as often as Windows. The applications will crash but the OS will continue to run in its protected kernel quite happily. The majority of Mac users tend to leave their machine running and never reboot except after a Software Update, when it is required.
The Force Quit option is there to kill PROGRAMS that lock up.

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I just came into this forum and couldn't help but focus on your remark about running Spring Cleaning on a Mac. Could you elaborate on that? I was mentally preparing to do just that in hopes of getting rid of all the accumulated garbage. I'm running 10.3.9 on an iMac.

I don't think I saw one straight-up whole truth on the whole site. The author of this site is someone who apparently does not like Apple products, but has not actually used them in at least 10 years. It is very easy to fling mud at your opponent; it takes more thought and experience to make an intelligent argument.

In particular, the accusation that Apple uses cheap parts does not hold up. My experience, using both Macs and DOS/Windows machines for the last 20 years or so, is that Apple computers are built with premium components that tend to be very, very reliable--much more so than most of their Windows counterparts. "It just works" is not just a saying. Even the battery fires cited as evidence of cheap components were really due to Apple's very early adoption of lithium ion batteries--the latest, best and most expensive at the time. Li-Ion batteries are quite "hot" in terms of the energy density they store, and the early ones did not quite have all the bugs worked out before they hit the market.

I have a small publishing company that uses two PCs running XP but most of the business uses Apples running OS10.4 Having made a day-to-day comparison of the two operating systems for several years, I'd like to pick part a single statement on the 'macreality' site:

"There are many misconceptions about MacOS X: that there are no viruses, that it never crashes, that it's more stable. False."

Fact: I ran antivirus software on one OSX machine for a whole year and it only ever picked up PC viruses. However, I accidentally left the filewall off after reinstalling XP and it was corrupted so badly in the first 20 minutes with spyware that I has to start all over again.

Fact: We have to restart an Apple computer due to crashes on average maybe twice a month. The PCs average more like twice a day. Most time the there is an applications problem under OSX, the force quit solves the problem, so you lose almost no time.

Fact: The Apple machines are massively more stable than the PCs, especially for media-orientated applications. Maybe that's one of the reasons why I've bought probably 20 of them in the last 15 years, compared to four PCs.

I guess you could say he's aiming for a very small windoze.
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Nice to see your posts. Funny and very good info. I hope that you don't scare too many off from your posts.

P.S. Lampie, I have asked a friend of mine to ask questions here on the Mac Forum. His name is Rick (puddgyOne). Rick is a PC user and wants to find out some questions concerning the Mac. He is trying to help us on why the weird blue control bar is showing up for some of us running Safari while viewing the CNET Forums.
Rick has expertise with managing web sites and is trying to help Adam from the IT CNET group.

So, bottom line, Lampie, could you help him out the next time he posts back? Rick is a pretty cool guy. You will like him.
Until he starts with his whacko jokes. You will both be at home with each other after that! :))

-Kevin Smith

with your knowledge. You have the ability to help others.
IT and OS help.
Plus some real good general posts by you. As always.

Have you learned to juggle
work and play at the same time? :)

RBB&B needs some good new recruits. Sign up! Life is too short to miss out with this opportunity! What about Cirque De Sol? :)
Never can remember that groups proper spelling.

Thanks Lampie,

-Kevin

I agree with you. I hate reading that crap also. So much BS!!!

TigerG, the poster has not returned to answer back to anyone here on the Mac Forum.
Wonder why? Blowing smoke?? As usual!
Idiots like that show up all the time. They post and disappear. Poof! Gone!

Still like Lampie's post to him. Go back and check it out.
Really informative and fact!

-Kevin

Waiting to hear from Pete also on this particular crap crawling out on the internet. You need more than a pooper scooper here.
A truckload of cat litter, perhaps.

Lampie, he just hates all non-Windows users.
I know it's a bunch of B.S. aimed at the Mac User. He is jealous of a system that is more stable and that does not have any viruses.

You could post to this idiot also.
Besides Peter, Bob Proffitt would be a good choice to shut this moron off once and for all. Bob and Peter both know all operating systems.

There is the ultimate here also: APPLE & Steve Jobs.
Maybe they think that it not worth commenting on. Who knows?
How about Tony Soprano and the wise guys from Joisey?
Ahhh, Forgeddaboudit!

Lampie, want a dime? I will back you. :)

-Kevin