On 2/27/06, Greg Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll tell you what I did for my non-technical parents and sister - migrated > them to OS X and let them be. Both my sister and my parents have been > burned by out-of-date or non-existent anti-virus, lost data, etc, etc, etc, > standard stuff really when using Microsoft operating systems in conjunction > with high-speed Internet.
The no-viruses mantra has always been a good point for the Mac, but the hakerz are starting to see it as a target: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114099964776283796-ZEID6okGb8UJgH41ZE6q2xSPqWs_20070227.html?mod=blogs I've been a long term Mac advocate (actually an Apple advocate going back to the Apple ][), I bought an early Mac (okay, I did wait for the 512K version), my wife was one of the founders of what is now TriMug, back when it was called AppleSeeds, and I was one of its first members. Lately though I'm beginning to be more and more worried that Apple's days as a PC manufacturer might well be past the tipping point and on the downward slope following IBM. The more I think about it, the more I think that Dvorak might have had a point in his recent, appropriately iconoclastic, piece: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1927885,00.asp The day might well come when Apple, having completed the takeover of Disney, just gives up and sells their PC manufacturing business to an Asian company. I hope not, but... -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
