have sucked real bad, for a long time now. Ever since the team of Claremont/Byrne/Austin left the book, it has been a shade of what it once was. But it will keep chugging along so long as the kiddies keep buying.
One thing to consider is turning your system in for repairs. I used to own an Apple G4 Cube and when I sent it in for repair, Apple decided simply to send me a new one. While I didn't have anything on the hard drive except some MP3s and Email, who knows where that disk is now and who has it? It is something to think about if you have your computer serviced.
After reading all the posts of this topic, I have concluded that physical destruction is the best way to go. Although I have no doubt that a program designed to securely erase the hard disk would be effective enough for me, my hard disks are simply too big for this approach. Who wants to wait on 7 or more passes on a 120GB hard disk?
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have sucked real bad, for a long time now. Ever since the team of Claremont/Byrne/Austin left the book, it has been a shade of what it once was. But it will keep chugging along so long as the kiddies keep buying.
As a fan of Macs, it is distrubing how heavy handed Apple can be. Maybe it's just as well that they own such a small market share.
One thing to consider is turning your system in for repairs. I used to own an Apple G4 Cube and when I sent it in for repair, Apple decided simply to send me a new one. While I didn't have anything on the hard drive except some MP3s and Email, who knows where that disk is now and who has it? It is something to think about if you have your computer serviced.
After reading all the posts of this topic, I have concluded that physical destruction is the best way to go. Although I have no doubt that a program designed to securely erase the hard disk would be effective enough for me, my hard disks are simply too big for this approach. Who wants to wait on 7 or more passes on a 120GB hard disk?