Windows 7 or vista..?
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From: Tucson
I hate Vista, I hate Vista more then 95, 98 and dare I say it....more then ME! I have never got a PC from a store have always built my own and loaded XP on it. The 2 laptops I did buy with Vista on it, I scrapped the OS and installed XP. I can not say much about Windows 7 as I have limited use of it but, from what I have seen and used, it's great. Seems stable and quick but even with my limited knowledge of Windows 7 I would pick it over Vista.
I know a lot of people use and like Vista without a problem but seeing it from a users point of view and a engineers point of view is totally different. The only thing I liked about Vista was being able to run items as admin without having to log in and out of the admins account
I know a lot of people use and like Vista without a problem but seeing it from a users point of view and a engineers point of view is totally different. The only thing I liked about Vista was being able to run items as admin without having to log in and out of the admins account
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From: Tacoma-ish
@ 2002xtreme: first thing's first, there is Macintosh Antivirus, correct? that should point you to the conclusion that apples get viruses.... Also McAfee makes MAC antivirus...
that is the Apple Mosaic Virus in action destroying crops....
At the time that little gem took hold, MAC OS held an almost invisible market share... Now it's up to almost 4% (or almost 1 in 25 PCs in the world is a Mac)
OS 9 had a handful of self attaching self replicating viruses. OS X i dunno as of yet, but google it. you will see
that is the Apple Mosaic Virus in action destroying crops....At the time that little gem took hold, MAC OS held an almost invisible market share... Now it's up to almost 4% (or almost 1 in 25 PCs in the world is a Mac)
OS 9 had a handful of self attaching self replicating viruses. OS X i dunno as of yet, but google it. you will see
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From: Bozeman, MT
All right I'm tired of the Mac vs Windows ( I don't say PC because I personally think that Macs are now PC's too). I have one of each, and really if you're a total fool, you can get viruses on anything. For the everyday user, both systems run all the programs I need equally well. My Mac might be a little faster but that's due to how it uses its memory and some settings you can change.
The only real difference comes down to economics. Since Mac's are considered "high end" computers, someone who is looking for a cheap computer wont buy a Mac and someone who doesn't have price as an object will have a higher chance of buying a Mac. 90% of computers aren't considered high end. Apple only has around 10% of the total market share because they choose to. How ever they do have 90% of the "high end." When you look back through the economics early on, you see how Apple has really only market a few lines of products, while Windows made the switch to run their software on virtually everything. Windows won that battle by quantity. By using the approach to be able to run it on an entire range of computers, users could afford to buy cheap hardware for a computer at home, then go to work and work on the exact same operating system on a computer that maybe has better hardware, or vice versa. Macs were built to be the same hardware across the board so they cost the same to everyone.
When it comes down to it, they both perform the same tasks, they both give you the same result, and they both have ups and downs.
The only real difference comes down to economics. Since Mac's are considered "high end" computers, someone who is looking for a cheap computer wont buy a Mac and someone who doesn't have price as an object will have a higher chance of buying a Mac. 90% of computers aren't considered high end. Apple only has around 10% of the total market share because they choose to. How ever they do have 90% of the "high end." When you look back through the economics early on, you see how Apple has really only market a few lines of products, while Windows made the switch to run their software on virtually everything. Windows won that battle by quantity. By using the approach to be able to run it on an entire range of computers, users could afford to buy cheap hardware for a computer at home, then go to work and work on the exact same operating system on a computer that maybe has better hardware, or vice versa. Macs were built to be the same hardware across the board so they cost the same to everyone.
When it comes down to it, they both perform the same tasks, they both give you the same result, and they both have ups and downs.
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From: Tacoma-ish
CodFos: What Mac vs. Windows? that hasn't come up yet... One count down and me saying don't listen to the apple guy on page one who wasn't ansering the question at hand?
Question: vista or 7. <---7 FTW.
Then someone said mac, and someone else said can macs get viruses. hence my answer. Yes macs can get viruses. no MAC vs. windows. I'm just talking
btw here is one more virus riddled Apple
Question: vista or 7. <---7 FTW.
Then someone said mac, and someone else said can macs get viruses. hence my answer. Yes macs can get viruses. no MAC vs. windows. I'm just talking
btw here is one more virus riddled Apple
Last edited by ABN31B; Oct 26, 2009 at 05:27 PM.
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From: Bozeman, MT
I was just throwing that out there, I have no qualms with any of it.
But yes the question is 7 or Vista so I would have to choose the one that isn't vista. Heck I take 98 or even 95 over Vista if it even ran on any newer computer. Just think how fast that sucker could go if you ran it with any of the modern hardware out there.
But yes the question is 7 or Vista so I would have to choose the one that isn't vista. Heck I take 98 or even 95 over Vista if it even ran on any newer computer. Just think how fast that sucker could go if you ran it with any of the modern hardware out there.
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From: Iowa
I have been running vista ultimate x64 for well over a year and when sp1 came out that fixed a lot of crashes and issues, if you are computer savvy at all there is a lot of stuff in vista that can be disabled, I have tried windows 7 for about a week or so and hate that they removed the classic start menu from 7... that right there is enough for me to stay with vista... unless they put the classic start menu back in 7