HAve you seen that mac v. PC commercial with the small writing?

That is a huge, huge exaggeration. If that were true, then Apple wouldn't rank highest in customer satisfaction.

 

Most often on online websites users rate their products soon after receiving them or not at all. That quote is not specific to first gen products.
Not to mention every time Apple releases a product, for the first few months, there are stories everywhere of this breaking or consumers being pissed about this or that.
Apple also exploits little design flaws with quick fixes for big money on repairs.

 

I and most of my friends use Apple products and we're all very satisfied. My Intel iMac is the finest desktop I've ever used and I love my iPod touch.

 

I've had training in Mac and PC, it was a few years back on Tiger OS and I don't know if this has changed but Safari was set to execute programs by default. One of our labs was to research this and actually corrupt ant crash a Mac simply by visiting a URL address. Then of course we had to repair it. Sure you are not in super user access level but it can still destroy YOUR software and files. Super user access is irrelevant!

I have absolutely no antivirus or firewall running and slowing down my PC because My boot drive is imaged and perfectly protected. You can install spyware, viruses or delete half my system files, with a push of a button my OS is back up exactly how I like it in 30 seconds.

 

O do you happen to keep that image stored in a NTFS, FAT, or CDFS type partition? If so, shame, if not, good work.

Super user rights are everything in Unix. In Windows, they mean nothing. This is a sign that you are a Windows user and you are trying to treat a Mac problem that doesn't exist.

It's like running out of gas in a diesel vehicle. A problem! You then put regular gasoline in the car and wonder why it doesn't work right. Unix and Windows do no take the same type of fuel.

 

Are you refering to this exploit?
http://db.tidbits.com/article/8436

If so, it is almost 5 years old. lol. I can think of more Windows 7 exploits right now than I can of OS X exploits in the past 5 years.

Once again, super user is everything, and this exploit cannot bring down an OS X system.

 

That doesn't even make any sense. I'd don't care what Mac problems do or don't exist. What matters is having the ability to secure YOUR data and have total control over YOUR OS. My data is 100% secure, my OS is 100% secure. The average persons PC is an infected mess, that's their problem if they can't be bothered to secure it. Don't act like it cant be secure because some people can't be bothered or who just don't have the sense to. This is EXACTLY the type of people Mac commercials target, people who can't be bothered to manage their OS or concern themselves with things like the truth and facts. I work for a large IT company with millions of customers and most of our software is managed on windows machines and there's never been a security issue on our end. NEVER!

I know your completely unbiased so I'm sure your aware of how easy and cheap it is to fully secure a windows based OS through various hardware and software measures that are available.

 

There are a lot of free security solutions for Windows. I have lost faith in a lot of it tho. It's better than nothing!!! but not perfect.

 

Windows seven is still in beta, of course it has a lot of problems, osx has been out forever, it was built more modular, great, but, they haven't really changed it in a major way in awhile.

and no one really TRIES to exploit macs because so few people worth hacking use macs, so, there are many more unfound exploits.

arguing that a castle no one wants to get into is unassailable is, yes a valid argument, doesn't mean it's a good one.

 

You can throw all this techie mumbo jumbo around all you like, but the fact remains that on the Mac, a user has to do nothing to be totally free of spyware, malware, viruses, and worms.

And with the wonderful Time Machine feature, he/she has the best backup solution.

 

Time machine is the best solution for who? People who can't trust themselves or be responsible enough to save and backup their own work so they need to run a resource hog that saves EVERYTHING for them? Maybe Apples next venture should be robot assistants who spoon feeds us and wipe our butts, tell us where to go and what to wear and what to do. It will be like life on the Axiom, "Apple is your very best friend...".

At least Macs are too much of a toy to take over the world, It would be funny to see Apple try to replace all 400+ workstations and servers at our company with their silly Leopard OS and Time Machine backup system. With each workstation running 12-16 windows applications we need to navigate between in a split second, our efficiency would drop like a rock if not grind to a complete halt just from the lack of a decent task bar let alone the unnecessary server load from a ridiculous backup protocol. Management would have Mac OS wiped off the machines and replaced with windows server within the first hour because Mac OS just can't do the job, plain and simple.