A Six-Step Plan for Apple

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Posted by michael on Friday July 9, 2004 @06:40AM from the a-man-a-plan-a-canal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Open letter from Alex Salkever to Jobs. One thing in particular strikes me: 'The latest round of attacks on Microsoft software is terrifying. If using a Mac means servers in Russia are less likely to harvest my passwords and offer my identity to the highest bidder, I think that's an offer I'd like to hear more about.' I think he's got something there."

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Yes, well if everyone started using Macs... by emorphien · 2004-07-09 06:46 · Score: 0, Redundant

...The same problems would exist. The Mac OS isn't immune, it may be true that it's harder to crack but if it were to have 95% of the market I can guaratee it will be cracked open just like windows and other MS software (IE) has been. Regardless of any good or bad software MS has made, they're the highest profile software firm out there.

But frankly, the most recent attacks on MS software aren't as bad as they are made out to be. I've hardly seen any problems and on the Windows systems I run, it's been smooth sailing. Now if I started seeing repeated attacks and they were successful in compromising the systems, I'd change my mind, but that's not happening. As it is I haven't even seen that many attempts.

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Re:Let's not forget... by shigelojoe · 2004-07-09 06:52 · Score: 0, Redundant

As I type from within one I must say!

Oh no, terraformer is trapped in his computer!
Obivious by Reducer2001 · 2004-07-09 07:02 · Score: 0, Redundant

In Soviet Russia, passwords harvest you!

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Re:PC vs. Apple explained... by TubeSteak · 2004-07-09 14:23 · Score: 0, Redundant

I was gonna go off about the g5, but i think my dad put it better, he called it the lemon theory. People who buy a lemon go around telling other people it's great and they love it and you should buy one too. Because otherwise they'd look dumb. I know, Mac users are as smart as everyone else, but Apple has created an artificial scarcity of parts. Hence the hands off approach.
You just don't have the choice of a 1TB workstation. If you compare their mobo to a PC board... it's feature rich but lacking basics like extra SATA connectors, hardware raid, and the ability to make it go faster. Imagine if you could remove their cooling system, replace with fans and install drive cages in the the empty cavern that'd remain. Get yourself a SATA raid card and cram it full of drives. it'd be every at-home graphics designer's dream. Its not like they could afford an xserve.
I'd buy the G5's case, that's about it.

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