There are in fact several reported viruses out there that were made specifically to forget Macs over, some of which CAN break your precious three thousand dollar piece of hardware. Although most of the current viruses are contempt with turning Macs into "zombie systems" for mail-spamming purposes. Welcome to 2007.The MAC OS system is comparable to Windows Vista, it's baby stuff that will work for frap boys, teenagers, and the engineers that designed our previous stuffty labs, but will utterly fail if you so much as try to do anything a bit more complicated, like any sort of networking or anything demanding actual work out of the system.
Linux works if you really know what you're doing. If you don't then it won't work for you, surprised? Linux can also be a bit of a hassle to set up to run the way you want but atleast you CAN get it to do what you want if you're patient enough. Not true with the stuff bucket Vista and child-protection-rigged Mac.
My more solid critique lies specifically on whether the OS is effective in a working environment though, since you know, that's what computers were loving made for in the first place. How "good" an OS is, is simply a combination of how hassle-free it is, how much you can do with it, and how many things it's compatible with. That's all anyone needs out of an OS. All this comes into play in an office environment.
- Well it so happens you're practically frowned upon for even suggesting you get a Mac for office work (obviously)
- Linux is a hassle to set up for everyone (if even allowed),
- and Vista is a shear butt-loving nightmare in every imaginable sense.
- So far windows XP is the best working OS currently out for moderately complex tasks, heck the supercomputer back in the lab uses some outdated XP version to run quantum chemical calculations and it works fine.
Of course support has ceased for XP but even then most people will have to be out of their minds to upgrade to Vista, or pay three times as much for a new shiny Mac. I guess Linux works if you're really patient and like to tinker.
I omitted malware and viruses because seriously, all you need to take care of that stuff is keep a single anti-virus program running, make sure you have a firewall enabled, and if things get really bad, go into safe mode and clean the stuff up. Maybe you could even use one of those fancy programs that scan your registrar keys and processes for malware so you can fix it yourself. Either way, it's only an issue to people that download those special add-ons needed to run research movies (it's malware congrats), people who actively click on every loving game ad they see, and people who go looking for script kiddie stuff. It's not a problem if you have even a slight modicum of intelligence.
Bottom line, XP is the best current OS out there because it's simple, flexible, and it loving works with almost everything. So forget the haters.
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