Macbook, PowerBook or iBook?
Hi,
I have a question and I need to buy a new laptop in the spring for school.
I've seen people have Macbook or whatever.
Which one is good for me? Macbook or Powerbook or Ibook. I want your opinion on it.
Thanks.
I have a question and I need to buy a new laptop in the spring for school.
I've seen people have Macbook or whatever.
Which one is good for me? Macbook or Powerbook or Ibook. I want your opinion on it.
Thanks.
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I do all my designing on a Mac Mini at home and a Powermac G4 at work. I commend you for going mac.
The newer macs with the intel chips are amazing. They run Windows just as well as any PC can.
From my experience, and as a former Apple employee, boot camp works great but the other options aren't as good. Boot camp runs windows just like any other computer would; you wouldn't know the difference except that the hardware has an Apple logo on it. The drawback is you have to reboot the computer to run windows. Since boot camp is included in the current operating system, all you have to have is your own Windows CD to get things going. The other stuff, like Parallels, lets you run windows at the same time (and it's pretty cool if you have dual monitors, you can set one as windows, the other as mac). Not all the drivers are 100% on Parallels, though, and I've heard of some other issues. Plus it's a huge memory hog.
As far as it running on a Mac, it's as flawless as it would be running on a PC.
Now I've decided what to get.
Thanks for the opinion and stuff,
There is nothing you can do on a Mac that you can't do on a PC, at least if you're computer literate.
I must be too computer illiterate to get a virus then
Personally, I hate 17" laptops. If I want a screen that size, I'm sitting at a desk, and will spring for 20"+. If I want to use a laptop I need something that is portable. To me a worthwhile laptop needs to be less than 5 lbs and preferably less than 3 lbs. Otherwise it's a luggable.
Well, from what I recall, after Apple used the lack of viruses as an advertising tool, a few spiteful hackers made sure that the Macs have a selection of viruses all their own.
There are currently exactly zero MacOS X viruses in the wild. There are a couple trojans, but all those require you manually opening the program then enter in your admin password. No system can protect against that and they are not able to spread to other computers.
Well, from what I recall, after Apple used the lack of viruses as an advertising tool, a few spiteful hackers made sure that the Macs have a selection of viruses all their own.
Please enlighten me on the selection of viruses that are exclusive to a Mac.
here is one from 2006, that is considered a worm rather than a trojan horse.
EDIT to add: Also, if you run Windows on your x86 Mac then you are just as vulnerable to everything out there that targets PC users. You're only secure using Mac OS because of its relative obscurity.
I run WinXP in Parallels, which means it is virtualized and runs in its own sandbox. A virus could take out the entire Win hard disk, but because that is just a file to the Mac side absolutely nothing will happen there. And because I run automated Time Machine backups I can just recopy that file from the hour/day/week before the virus hit instead of reinstalling everything. The Windows install only gets an internet connection when a business app needs it so I have mostly avoided that problem. Same can't be said for my physical Windows box...
The obscurity explanation fails with the number of pre MacOS X viruses. With a similar or smaller market share there were some viruses for classic MacOS. There are also about the same number for Linux with its <1% market. Have the virus makers just decided to be nice and leave MacOS X completely alone, giving up ~10% when they successfully attacked MacOS before, or does the system design with things like privilege levels missing in Windows make it too hard to bother trying?
Regardless, I personally feel that Apple products are a waste of money. Their sleek product design is matched by other manufacturers, if that is what is important to you. I just can't justify the premium for anything else that their products offer.
...they also have other dangerous things such as key loggers. A mac doesnt make you safe from the dangers of the internet..
The same dangers as you would face on any PC, you could face on a mac, if your messing around in dangerous places. If your not being intelligent using your PC, there are a whole slew of ways bad people can get your credit cards or whatever they want. Example: you sign up for a Warez forum. The owners of that sight take your login information and do dirty things. Also im not sure exactly how things run on OS X, but key loggers dont have to be installed, they can simply be run. Macs can also be hacked just like a PC. The dangerous part about a computer is not the OS, its the person controlling it.. if your gonna be dumb, you can damage it all by yourself, by doing any number of things that you shouldnt. Same goes with getting viruses. Viruses dont just appear out of thin air, you have to do something dumb to contract them. Again there is alway Linux, which is free, and is compatible with the cheapest hardware.
If your not being intelligent using your PC, there are a whole slew of ways bad people can get your credit cards or whatever they want. Example: you sign up for a Warez forum. The owners of that sight take your login information and do dirty things.
Also im not sure exactly how things run on OS X, but key loggers dont have to be installed, they can simply be run.
I think the danger of Mac users creating deadly smug clouds is very real...
Just wait until someone makes an in dash Mac for the Prius!