Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] good free virus protection for Win XP?

[Jason McIntosh <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

The difference is that equipment is pretty sweet - seriously, do some 
floating point operations for scientific processing on a Mac, then do 
it on a PC, and see which is faster.  Then complain about more 
expensive hardware.  OR, try realtime movie encoding, picture 
manipulation, etc. etc.

The Mac hardware is in SOME instances more expensive, but overall for 
performance it's MUCH nicer.  And especially take a look at the RAID 
array they've got - I'd priced out equivalent solutions elsewhere in 
the industry, and couldn't find a single thing cheaper for what it 
does.  Everything else that came close was more than TWICE the price.  
Apple has some really good hardware, all things considered.  
Particularly when you combine that with some of their software, such as 
the Xgrid stuff, or things like FinalCut and such.
Jason

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On Dec 7, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Vern Green wrote:

> Sure so you strip off all the fancy stuff and you are left with BSD.
>
> So let me get that straight. I pay more for the equipment than I would
> for a PC, strip off the lame OS so I can use BSD on it? Seems to me I
> could pay less money on the equipment by buying an Intel type machine
> and install free BSD on it and be ahead of the game.
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:16:40 -0600 (CST), Mike Miller
> <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Vern Green wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Mike Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>> I agree that the Macs are better.  Who can resist OS X when the 
>>>> other
>>>> major option is MS XP?
>>>
>>> I can resist it. I hate OS X. I have had some working with it, and
>>> frankly give me a stripped down version of Linux that just does what 
>>> I
>>> need it to do.
>>>
>>> Windows XP went nuts trying to make their system more Mac-like. I 
>>> hate
>>> the soft warm and fuzzy graphics and the transitions, zips, fades, 
>>> icons
>>> that jump around and so on and on and on.
>>>
>>> I have reverted my XP installation back to a Classic view and I have
>>> taken all those fancy pants nonsensical things and turned as many 
>>> off as
>>> I can.
>>>
>>> OS X is worse than Windows when it comes to this nonsense. I don't 
>>> need
>>> a leaping Icon to tell me what program I just clicked on.
>>
>>
>> OK.  So you don't like the pretty moving picture aspect of the GUI, 
>> but
>> there's more to an OS than that.  Does OS X offer no options for the
>> desktop GUI?  It is a BSD-based unix OS, right?
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike
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