8 1/2

Do you know what a trojan is?

If you think security is irrelevant and you've never gotten your computer broken into, consider yourself lucky.

Slorg

No, I mean the fact that OSX is vulnerable is irrelevant. What matters is the chance you'll be infected and also how you can affect that chance.

fivre

What's wrong with old technology? Some of it works damn well. Floppies, for instance. Yeah, they can't hold your pirated copy of Photoshop, but you can fit a bunch of useful boot utilities--including OSs--onto them. Sure, they make bootable CDs, but they require a special flag, often a nostandard boot order, and can only burn once. CD-RWs are slow as hell, to those that would raise that objection.

I like how Apple plugs its super-modern EFI boot loader... Despite the fact they're appealing to users who don't know what a bIOS, POST, or driver is. They seem to simply like saying how awesome they are. If anything, it looks like EFI would be of more use to developers anyway.

Let the fools flock to Mac and shift the target of viruses (virii?) over thar.

JinFX

nonstandard boot order? nobody who wants their machine to boot in under a minute will make floppies (or cd for that matter) boot b4 HDD

Biaxident

I dont know much about comps, but does this mean that I'll be able to play PC games on the mac?

viscious

CD-RW burn faster than you write to Floppy's you just don't notice since you fill up a floppy in 1.4MB while you usually burn more than a couple hundred on a cd.

karthikkito

Most computers can boot to USB .: the 'new' floppy disk - USB pen drives - have replaced the old. Now, if you buy a 1gb drive and stick knoppix on there, you'll have a secure Linux terminal that writes nothing to disk and leaves no trace wherever you go.

8 1/2

Knoppix is good stuff, I boot it from CD though.

karthikkito

Well, advantage of running it from a usb drive is that you can write to it...if the hard disk is ntfs, you can't [reliably] save any data under knoppix.

Slorg

Biaxident, yes, you'll be able to play PC games on macs that can boot xp.

JinFX

if u wanna use xp, dont waste ur money on apple hardware

and its not guranteed it can run those games cuz its 1. u need to install ur own xp on a certain high end model of mac, and u need a certain lvl of proficiency at both hardware and software

and 2. it may not be able to run the game at decent speeds b/c the game prob messed up w/ the mac hardware drivers (or lack of drivers)

fivre

JinFX: Apparently you've never had HDD problems...

Also, keep in mind, most people buying a Mac and dual-booting XP aren't going to be playing Counter Strike: Source and Doom 3. They're more the Sims 2 market. They don't need the capability to exceed 200 fps in anything they play.

slx88

Generally, gaming on laptops is not too great in the first place. It has nothing to do with how good the hardware is in the laptop, its just not as good as having a desktop.

slx88

Screen size really isnt hte issue for me, it's the maximum resolution that the monitor can handle.

Biaxident

FINALLY! At least now I can get a macbook