Shakkara Posted May 5, 2004 Share Posted May 5, 2004 Apparantly Wine can run almost any windows game. Windows can run every Windows game ;) Except when you use windows 3.x, 95, 98FE, ME, NT, 2000, or XP. Gotta love M$'s definition of compatibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImmortalSnafu Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 Ahh...a good old rant-and-rave thread. I concede most of your points but you neglect to note the finer aspects of Windows: -Upgradeable (as opposed to the dreaded Macs)-Room for customization-Many, many options-Has many more games than supported by any other platform. As for the worms/viruses/trojans: GET KERIO! Kerio personal Firewall, combined with the wrath of Webroot Spy Sweeper is nearly guaranteed to stop most problems. Give Microsoft a little credit.-Upgradeable (as opposed to the dreaded Macs) Uhhh....no Almost nothing in my Mac box is original. I've upgraded the Video Card, RAM, both cd drives, 4 hard drives, 2 new fans, etc etc. Only the original processors are there. -Room for customization *sigh* -Many, many options I agree, but many options are silly if you only need one. I only need to use certain programs on my Mac and I'm rather content without thousands of redundant software packages clogging up my platform. Choices are good, when the only choice is the best choice it really doesn't matter. -Has many more games than supported by any other platform. Yes....Yo've got me here. Windows dominates the gaming industry (suprise!). But most of the really good games (Deus Ex, Battlefield 1942, Baldur's Gate, etc) end up on Mac or Linux. Give Microsoft a little credit. No ;) ------------------------------You might want to consider some of the Apple's advantages... 1) No viruses, worms, spyware- That's right NONE. no worrying about any of those crazy security threats 2) Reliability- I've had my mac for 10 months and it's crashed once....when I was rendering a Maya scene while playing Halo. Bad idea no matter what platform you're on. 3) Community- Since Apple only holds 5% of the market...the community for macs are very close knit. 4) They look purty- You can't say with a straight face that macs aren't really cool looking...you just can't. Oh boy! I can't wait to get flamed... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marxist ßastard Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 The Great Uninformed One: No viruses, worms, spyware- That's right NONE. no worrying about any of those crazy security threats I just felt I had to respond to this -- Apple does have a good record of patching security vulnerabilities (I'm not saying that the average Mac user knows what a patch is, however), but no OS is completely secure -- it's ridiculous to say there are absolutely no exploits or malware oppurtunities. Macs in general are famous for their weak encryption, which allows password cracking with minimal effort. There are also numerous exploits out for more specific threats -- the first of these that comes to mind is the exploit for Directory Services, which allows anyone to gain root access and complete control over an affected machine. It has also been proven that making a trojan that targets Macs is quite possible -- an executable containing malicious code can be made to look and act exactly like any number of media files when viewed by a Mac. This has been proven by the MP3Concept example trojan. Now without further ado... http://www.genmay.net/stuff/funnypics/appletwobuttons.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImmortalSnafu Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 The Great Uninformed One: I hate you too...;) I just felt I had to respond to this :D it's ridiculous to say there are absolutely no exploits or malware oppurtunities Agreed. That was stupid of me to say. This has been proven by the MP3Concept example trojan. The point is that these trojans, exploits , etc are almost never used maliciously. On another note, the whole MP3 trojan was silly... the first of these that comes to mind is the exploit for Directory Services, which allows anyone to gain root access and complete control over an affected machine. It has also been proven that making a trojan that targets Macs is quite possible The user must first manually enable the root account for this exploit to work..99% of users would never touch the command line to enable the root account and thus the exploit doesn't affect them (mac users aren't 1337...). The few who do enable it are usually able to secure the computer in other ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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