MACBOOK (not pro) or a DELL

idad
Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:50:02 +0000

“I do want to bring up the point that since macbooks also can run windows- there have been some incidents of viruses-”

It is not the hardware that matters where a virus is concerned, but the operating system. If one connects to the Internet via windows, one is as susceptible as any other windows machine to a virus. However, it will not affect the mac os x side of the machine. What many do who need to run windows is to do their Internet work exclusively through os x.

The protection through obscurity argument has shown not to be true. Macs get attacked almost as often as windows, the difference is they don’t succeed. There was and probably still is a, I believe, UWisc Mac that has no special protection that offers a $10,000 reward to anyone who can infect it with a virus. No one has collected. Even so, it is good to be careful.

Also, the new OS X 10.5 (Leopard) looks to be amazing. macOS Sonoma - Apple;