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19th December 2006, 15:27 | #1 |
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New pc advice please
Looking to buy a new pc for the children - games, multi media etc. Would like to spend as little as poss (wouldn't we all ).
Any advice on where to go looking, reliable etc. etc. tvm Mike
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http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObje...lEqTf66p3iEXtQ
Can't praise the quality and price enough. No Virii, no spyware, no trojans, no hassle. No lack of software or resources. If you want Windows as well, download the free Bootcamp software, Load XP Pro including SP2 and you will have the best of one world and the worst of the other. |
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Cheers Guys I'll check them both out GG the link went to a page saying session timed out - do you have another?
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http://www.apple.com/uk/ Then click on "store" tab at the top of the page, then click on Imacs in the centre. Unless you are looking for macbook. |
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Apple address any security issues on a very regular basis and in general they are addressed well before the so called experts discover them. As I tell all my clients, there are no virii or security issues at this time, but do not be complacent, some pathetic sensation seeker is bound to do it sometime. The Mac community polices itself, unlike the Windows community which attempts to destroy itself. The latest update for OSX 10.4.8 was issued today. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798 |
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The Mac community is a minority. Hence less of a target, the more peeps use it the more vulnerable it will get to attack. A small minority (pro-rata) in the Windows community cause damage.....a problem it is indeed. Hence the move towards Linux....you get better security AND all those lovely computer games..... |
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Although why writers of virii, keyloggers, trojans etc have not bothered is because they are very likely to get laughed out of the hacking community for wasting their energies on a bunch of tree hugging, hippy, film making type users, when there are countries and banking systems and Cod knows what else to damage. No contest. Beware, your Linux and Unix boxes need protection. BSD is very vulnerable, whereas the BSD subsystem on OSX is of a very different flavour, not in any way invulnerable, just a lot more difficult. Edit:- BTW the small minority you refer to in the Windows community amount to many hundreds of thousands. Many of them being very serious criminals. Last edited by GreyGhost; 19th December 2006 at 20:43.. |
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Mac, V's Windows, V's Linux.....
"The only safe computer is one that is not plugged in". (c) me 1987-2006 there is very little difference in top end pc's and macs these days, as they both use Intel dual cores, SATA hard drives and Nvidea graphics cards, and linux? nah... it wont run any of my video or music production software.
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