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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Best thing about a MAC is that they finally got smart and fixed the operating system so it could run PC Software. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Well done Dave. Macs are much more faithful. This is evidenced by the fact that they are way less likely to catch a nasty virus. Those Windows tarts get infected all the time then claim "Honest, I didn't interface with any other computers". |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by stephent28:
finally got smart and fixed the operating system so it could run PC Software. You really are insane. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I have no Mac savvy... And my PC does have to be 'disinfected' regularly.
My question is, if you run Windows software on your Mac will that make it susceptible to the same viruses?
Also, if you transfer all your crap from a PC to a Mac, will the viruses and trojans and worms and lice go with it?
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
You really are insane.
OUI, the truth often hurts, eh Peppe??? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Someone give ol' Napoleon here, his meds...
-OMA,
Viruses designed for PC, don't infect Macs. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Correct.....MACS have their own set of problems (snicker)........
Go ahead and respond Mr. Whitehead. I would love to be the brunt of your 10,000 post! |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
I've played with my wife's MacMini and it drives me nuts..... I've played with your nuts, but not your wife's MacMini (that's some kind of burger, right?)
Just a minute...... wrong forum, sorry. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by John B:
Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
What's a MAC?
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
I know 2 people on this board who went to Mac's, couldn't stand them, and went back to PC's. I've played with my wife's MacMini and it drives me nuts..... Paul, I say that in jest. I've got enough experience to know there isn't one answer for everybody. I have to say, I was tempted to tweak some of those quotes from the acousticguitar.com forums and see how they flew re: the whole mac vs. pc thing just for fun..
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
My question is, if you run Windows software on your Mac will that make it susceptible to the same viruses?
Also, if you transfer all your crap from a PC to a Mac, will the viruses and trojans and worms and lice go with it?
Windows lives in a separate hard partition on the hard disk. That partition is subject to all the normal viruses that Windows can catch. However (at least in Bootcamp, I don't know about other systems) Windows cannot "see" the rest of the hard disk and therefore shouldn't be able to infect it. You can see the Windows partition from within the Mac environment, so potentially you could drag the virus across, but you'd probably have to be doing something quite unusual and the virus would have to be able to activate under MacOS.
If you transfer stuff from an infected PC to a Mac, you will likely carry a lot of the viruses and trojans etc, but they will be unlikely to be activated on the Mac. i.e. they'll be there, but dormant. Transfer the information back to a PC and whammo! |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
And control-click is like right-click. Dave, if you've got a Mac with a trackpad, go to System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse and turn on two things:
- Use two fingers to scroll
- For secondary clicks, place two fingers on the trackpad then click the button
With these on, you can touch the trackpad with your index and middle fingers and then brush up and down to scroll. saves having to move your mouse over to the scrollbars. And with both fingers on the trackpad, your click becomes the right click and you don't need to bother with the Ctrl key.
Both of these gestures are a bit tough coming over from Windows, but stick with it and they'll really simplify your life in the long run. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I didn't start this thread as a pc vs. mac thing. That's got all the same passion and controversy as Taylor vs. Ovation (taylor being the "pc", of course). I just wanted to explain what I'd been up to, why the CD project was a little slow (but coming along now), and that indeed you can teach an old fart new tricks.
Dave
PS - I need to get some of those white wires that the cool kinds stick in their ears ... |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Originally posted by stephent28:
Best thing about a MAC is that they finally got smart and fixed the operating system so it could run PC Software. Notice how none of the millions of geeks running Windows were ever smart enough to do the opposite? Just shows that Mac users are smarter. :D |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I wish I was there to see your relationship hit the pavement Dave. You should've filmed it and posted it 'over there'.
Why they call it "Windows"
Good move. No shortage of Mac support here for you. Maybe we should start a group 'over there'.
Yeah, some people try a Mac and give up and go back to PC. Some.
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by The Artist (FKA Richard ):
Originally posted by stephent28:
Best thing about a MAC is that they finally got smart and fixed the operating system so it could run PC Software. Notice how none of the millions of geeks running Windows were ever smart enough to do the opposite? Just shows that Mac users are smarter. :D |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
I didn't start this thread as a pc vs. mac thing. That's got all the same passion and controversy as Taylor vs. Ovation (taylor being the "pc", of course). Yeah, but at least that controversy is only a one-on-one fair fight, PC vs. Mac...
With Guitars, it's Ovation vs. Everybody Else.
[Personally, I just wanted alittle ed-yu-ma-ka-shun in case I ever get a lead on a cheap Mac :p ] |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Mac is the Ovation of computers.
(a) More plastic
(b) curvier
(c) a bit different
(d) most people don't understand them, especially in this part of the world. |
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Location: Wichita, KS | Congratulations Dave. Like a "real" divorce, you may experience some pain at first, but it life just keeps getting better and better.
I write software on PCs for a living, but at home my Macs are 100% Microsoft free. |
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Location: NJ | Dave;
Perhaps the local college has a remedial computer course you can attend.
(with any luck, you can sit next to McCain) |
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Location: south east Michigan | Sounds like a case of "Change just for the sake of change" to me.
As a general philosophy, I find that the world inflicts just about as much change in my life as I care to have. Now-a-days there's just way to many choices & decisions to make. So until they don't make what fills my needs, I'll most likely be driving a Chevy and strumming an Ovation. It's just a couple little things that brings a little sense of stability to it all. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | My PC is almost on its' death bed. My next one will be a MAC also. My nephew also works at the local Apple store so I can probably use his discount. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by cliff:
Dave;
Perhaps the local college has a remedial computer course you can attend.
(with any luck, you can sit next to McCain) ... I didn't know the Oval Office used Mac's
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