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Intel Head Recommends Apple

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-does-he-use dept.

pboulang writes "noted in this article in the WSJ: Pressed about security by Mr. Mossberg, Mr. Otellini had a startling confession: He spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his daughter's computer. And when further pressed about whether a mainstream computer user in search of immediate safety from security woes ought to buy Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh instead of a Wintel PC, he said, "If you want to fix it tomorrow, maybe you should buy something else.""

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  1. Why not Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Uhmm...because Linux is absolutely unusable compared to Mac OS X?

    Because the people we're talking about don't give a fuck about using whatever hardware they want?

    1. Re:Why not Linux? by spectral · · Score: 0, Troll

      Please tell me how you got Mac OS X playing sound on your new Dell laptop. When Mac OS X can do that, then you have a right to complain.

      Just because Dell uses shit for parts, that only support windows, and Mac hardware almost always only supports mac os, doesn't make it Linux's fault.

      Also, and this is where I start to troll, the rest is serious: RH and Fedora can go suck a nut. Worst. Distros. ever.

  2. Re:Oh Reginald.... I DISAGREE!!! by rokzy · · Score: 0, Troll

    who modded this Informative?

    PLEASE don't mod things as correct when you have no actual experience but think it sounds about right.

  3. Re:No, correct by iamacat · · Score: 1, Troll

    Free Linux software runs just fine OSX. However, if you want more quality than people are willing to provide as a hobby, you are stuck without any solution on Linux. Maybe there is a commercial office suite, but good luck with news readers, utilities, tax prep, education software...

    I expect this situation to persist until Linux guarantees long-term binary compatibility for libc, /dev, /proc, C++ ABI, kernel modules and filesystem structure. OSX Tiger broke some kernel extensions (Cisco VPN) for the first time in many years and people are not happy. With Linux it's more like once a month.