[Grovenet] MACs for Christmas

Wed Jan 2 13:07:38 PST 2008

I haven't had a single issue with my PCs (three of them in use) for over a
decade at least. No crashes. No viruses. No lost data. I don't "overclock"
processors and tinker incessantly with the computers, nor do I load every
bit of software I hear about.

My PCs are business tools. I treat them as such and they've worked reliably
and flawlessly.  

I avoid being an "early adopter" of the latest and greatest new fad. Even
if, after doing a cost/benefits analysis, I choose to adopt the new machine
or software, I understand that all products have a certain danger of
potential issues at first. That's true of computers, cars and other
technology. 

No company is immune to a stumble. Remember all those people who spend big
bucks on an Apple "Lisa"? 

As Chuck certainly knows, the growth in Apple market share (due in no small
part by Apple machines running Microsoft programs in greater numbers) has
brought with it a steady growth in virus and worm attacks. Anyone with
either a pc or a Mac who doesn't run a good virus program is worse than
careless, they are "drunk drivers" on the internet information highway,
operating machines capable of doing immense harm to other uses and the
internet itself. It doesn’t matter whether they are using a PC or a Mac or
what OS they are running. 

Even so, as Chuck reports, for every 8 Macs out there, there are 92 PCs.  

Ron D'Eau Claire 

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Subject: Re: [Grovenet] MACs for Christmas

Hi, Chuck,

The joke among Mac owners (like me) is that Windows Vista is really Windows 
Visa (as in take out your Visa to update all your applications, take out
your 
Visa to update all your utilities, take out your Visa to increase your RAM, 
etc.).   :-)

Jane B-P

> MAC Computers broke the 8% market share mark for the first time in the 
> final days of 2007.
> 
> "But it was the post-Christmas surge that really put the Mac on the 
> market share map. "The really good news for Apple came at the end of 
> the month," said Net Applications in a write-up on its Web site, which 
> noted that during Dec. 30 and Dec. 31, Mac OS X-powered machines 
> accounted for 8.01% of those monitored online. "This represents a 
> phenomenal increase of 18% from November for the Mac."
> 
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasi
> c&
> articleId=9054798
> 
> I have been telling my customers for years now - if you really want a 
> trouble free computer, switch to a Mac or learn a Linux OS.  My Ubuntu 
> Linux machine has been trouble free for going on 3 years now.  No 
> Viruses, No Spyware, no Blue Screens of Death, and without spending a 
> single penny for any kind of bloated software designed to work with 
> Microsoft.
> 
> While on Vacation this Christmas, my 17yr old niece got a new laptop - 
> with Vista of course.  Her 2 most important priorities (teenager of
> course) was Apple iTunes and MSN Instant Messenger.  While her laptop 
> was in really good condition (Acer), it was limited by only having 
> 512M of RAM (Vista likes LOTS of RAM).  However it did perform fairly 
> well. The Wifi was working well, the speed wasn't too bad, everything 
> was just humming along until I tried to install these 2 applications 
> for her.  I could not get it to work.  Vista errors.  Go figure.
> 
> I can not count how many people I have spoken to, or stories I have 
> heard, who absolutely despise Windows Vista.  So I say, good for 
> Apple. Yes, Macs cost more.  But they work.  Just like Linux.  It - 
> just - works.
> 
> My other service call this vacation (its hard being a computer guy) 
> was to another relative whom I built a computer for 3 years ago.  Not 
> one single Antivirus or Spyware application I had given him had been 
> updated.  Not once.  The computer was inundated with Viruses and 
> Spyware
> - big surprise.  And I could not do anything short of trying to back
> everything up, wiping his hard drive, and starting over.  I was supposed
> to bring this PC home with me to work on, but he was so angry that he
> might lose everything, I never heard back from him.  PC's can get
> Viruses.  Macs or Linux computers cannot (yet).
> 
> Want a computer without the hassle of viruses?  Get a Mac.
> 
> chuck underwood
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