Convince me to buy a Mac

[Fau Teixeira]

they switched to macs for a couple of reasons .. mainly because the G5 chips ran too hot and they coudln't get them into the laptops ..

[BeefStewert]

Maybe the power consumption was a reason.  I personally think a bigger reason is that Intel has such a large capacity that they could sell chips much cheaper.  Macs have been losing the price wars and they need something that can bring prices down a little (or leave price the same and raise their profits). 

[TonyB0D]

the main reasons for the switch to intel was the as fau said, they coudlnt shoehorn the 5g into the laptops.  also, the intels are dual-core, and they're already starting to work on putting quad core processors into the laptops soon

[pintofguinness14]

no popups, viruses, or spyware to worry about, EVER

I've heard this claim before.  Why is this the case?

[Spider-Dan]

I can tell you one thing:

Don't buy a Mac if you plan on playing games, unless you happen to know that the specific game you want is already available for Mac.

[Pats2006]

I hate Mac computers. I wouldn't get one.

[TonyB0D]

^^^^^^^^
guiness,
in regards to your last question above,

spyware and viruses are all coded for Windows, since its what 90% of computers run on.  since the Mac is an entirely different language, no one bothers to write mal-ware for it.  however, even if they did, the mac code is virtually impossible to hack and crack, since its based on Unix, and apple just does a much better job of making sure their codes are rock solid.  as for the pop-ups, safari has built-in popup protection that works 100%.  i've never ever ever had 1 pop-up sneak thru.

[pintofguinness14]

^^^^^^^^
guiness,
in regards to your last question above,

spyware and viruses are all coded for Windows, since its what 90% of computers run on.  since the Mac is an entirely different language, no one bothers to write mal-ware for it.  however, even if they did, the mac code is virtually impossible to hack and crack, since its based on Unix, and apple just does a much better job of making sure their codes are rock solid.  as for the pop-ups, safari has built-in popup protection that works 100%.  i've never ever ever had 1 pop-up sneak thru.

So Mac's biggest security feature is that not enough people own Macs for the hackers of the world to bother creating malicious code for them?  Is anti-virus/firewall protection available should someone decide to take a wack at attacking Mac's OS?  Also, this leaves me a little more concerned about the availability of software.  If it's not worth the time to create virii is it worth the time (and money) to create software?

[TonyB0D]

^^^^^
yes, macs do have powerful built-in firewalls, and there are plenty of virus/anti mal-ware programs, its just that no one really uses them yet b/c theres no need.  as its needed iit'll become more readily available.  besides, like i said ,the mac code is very very hard to hack anyways.  and as far as software being available, almost any major program you can get for a PC you can get fr mac nowadays, however this wasn't true up until a few years ago.  just go look around for some of the software you think you'd be using, and make sure they have it in mac version.

[pintofguinness14]

Tony, Brian, Dave, Fau and others:

Thanks for your advice!