It's great that you have somehow managed to venture out of your mother's basement to meet these people who have told you about their experiences with AMD processors. I have been using AMD processors for years and the only time my computers have ever had a problem with locking up or crashing was when I was running Vista. I suspect these people you know were mistaken.
Furthermore, how does Intel support open source more than AMD? Although I'm not familiar their "open-ness", I've never had a problem running any open source software on my AMD sporting computers.
It's just the electronic equivalent of a "Mystic Writing Pad," those children's toys with a plastic sheet over a wax-coated cardboard tablet. You use a plastic stylus to write on the plastic and letters appear. Then you lift the pad (with a very satisfying crackling sound) and, like magic, the writing disappears. Great for passing notes in elementary school.
This was actually exactly what I thought of when I saw this, especially cause I used one of those pads as a child. The only problems with the "Mystic Writing Pads" was that part of the message would often erase itself in the process of writing and they would actually wear out pretty quickly under heavy use.
Over the past few years I've met several people who claim to run XP without any anti-malware or firewall and never have any issues as they only browse websites they trust. I can't say I'm an expert as far as computer security goes, but I have heard reports of numerous sites, even those many people trust, being compromised and loading malware or exploiting code on people who visit them.
The point? You're not "us[ing] your computer intelligently" if you don't use any run some sort of security software just as a precaution.
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It's great that you have somehow managed to venture out of your mother's basement to meet these people who have told you about their experiences with AMD processors. I have been using AMD processors for years and the only time my computers have ever had a problem with locking up or crashing was when I was running Vista. I suspect these people you know were mistaken. Furthermore, how does Intel support open source more than AMD? Although I'm not familiar their "open-ness", I've never had a problem running any open source software on my AMD sporting computers.
I figure the daily Jobs lashings would be worse.
It's just the electronic equivalent of a "Mystic Writing Pad," those children's toys with a plastic sheet over a wax-coated cardboard tablet. You use a plastic stylus to write on the plastic and letters appear. Then you lift the pad (with a very satisfying crackling sound) and, like magic, the writing disappears. Great for passing notes in elementary school.
This was actually exactly what I thought of when I saw this, especially cause I used one of those pads as a child. The only problems with the "Mystic Writing Pads" was that part of the message would often erase itself in the process of writing and they would actually wear out pretty quickly under heavy use.
They will ship them to the US, they have just been selling out as soon as Amazon restocks. Watch their Twitter for updates.
Over the past few years I've met several people who claim to run XP without any anti-malware or firewall and never have any issues as they only browse websites they trust. I can't say I'm an expert as far as computer security goes, but I have heard reports of numerous sites, even those many people trust, being compromised and loading malware or exploiting code on people who visit them.
The point? You're not "us[ing] your computer intelligently" if you don't use any run some sort of security software just as a precaution.