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   From: grizzledgeezer@comcast.net   
      
   > Also Running Macs frees you from malware like viruses,   
   > trojan-horses and most Internet adware.   
      
   But that isn't inherent in the Mac OS, though Apple would have you believe   
   otherwise.   
      
   As the Mac becomes increasingly popular, it is becoming a larger target for   
   malware.   
      
      
   > The Mac GUI is BETTER DESIGNED than Windows.   
      
   This is the one (and only) good thing you can say about Apple products. The   
   company is aware that a human being will be using its products, and designs   
   accordingly. Steve Jobs isn't a genius -- he just has good sense.   
      
      
   > This stuff about Windows being a "real OS" and better   
   > because you need to be a computer science major to   
   > understand it, is just elitist nonsense.   
      
   I neither said nor implied anything of the sort. And you don't need to be a   
   computer science major to be able to run Windows.   
      
      
   >> But Apple's appallingly dishonest ads forced me to end   
   >> the recommendations.   
      
   > I see their ads and as user of both platforms, I see nothing   
   > dishonest about them.   
      
   Then you must have been hearing what you wanted to hear. Almost every claim   
   in the "I'm a Mac" ads is either a gross misrepresentation or an outright   
   lie. Instead of offering a simple description/explanation of /why/ the Mac   
   OS is superior, we're treated to cutesy sound bites that are bald-faced   
   lies. For example, characters in the ads state that they don't want a   
   computer that crashes all the time. Or we're told that Macs are immune to   
   malware.   
      
   I've been running W2K for almost 10 years, and have averaged about one crash   
   per year. In most cases, this was a particular application locking up so   
   tightly that a system restart was needed. (If my memory is correct, the last   
   of these occurred several years ago.)   
      
      
   >> and the computers using their OS aren't as expensive.   
      
   > Nor anywhere near as good. Remember, I use both, daily.   
      
   I'm curious as to how the hardware of a Mac (which is what you mean by   
   "machine") is superior to that of a PC. Both companies use the same   
   processor (which, by the way, will eventually be seen as one of the major   
   turning points in the history of personal computers, as it represents a   
   direct threat to the continued existance of both Windows and Mac OS), and   
   have to use the same components.   
      
      
   >> Honesty compels me to admit that about six years ago the operating   
   >> system "collapsed" for no obvious reason, and had to be reinstalled to   
   >> be fully operational. A friend with a Mac told me the same thing happened   
   >> to his Mac.   
      
   > Things can happen to any OS, but the Unix underpinnings to OSX make   
   > it far more robust than any Windows release I've ever seen.   
      
   This problem had no apparent connection to the disk operating system.   
      
      
   > I have been running OSX since 2001 day-in-and-day-out and I have   
   > NEVER had the Macs I own crash, slow down, need disk defragmentation   
   > or any of the ills that plague Windows.   
      
   Then why don't I own a Mac? Is it because I'm stupid? Or could it be that   
   the applications I run (or used to run) simply don't exist for the Mac? (I'm   
   a programmer-writer.)   
      
   I'm curious as to why the Mac never needs defragmentation. Does it   
   automatically defragment in the background?   
      
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