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Originally Posted by 83gt
"no backdoor" for mac is a big myth. Mac has been safer from virus infections in the past, simply due to the fact that hackers aren't writing viruses for an OS that has roughly 10% of the consumer market share. If mac continues to gain popularity due to the crappiness of microsoft Vista, you can be sure we will start to see more malware written for Mac OS.
Dell is now selling several models with Ubuntu Linux, a very nice and sleek alternative to Vista or Mac OS.
J.
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Don't forget that OSX runs on top of a 64-bit Unix OS core (BSD I believe). If you know Unix you can bring up a console and config everything the GUI can do directly through the command line. Apple sells the OS license for less than Windows costs.
OSX is less prone to viruses - mainly because it doesn't run VB script - and it doesn't have as much of an attack surface as Windows does. As 83gt said, if more people wanted to write malware to attack it - then there would be more of a concern.
NetBIOS and RPC are Windows downfalls to an open attack surface. If you lock down those ports or make sure the Windows Firewall is working then the attack surface is greatly reduced. The other side of Windows viruses is user stupidity - people don't use common sense and smart browsing practices and that's where they get infected with malware - Microsoft actually did a smart thing with IE in Vista and set it so that it runs with less than User priviliges to protect the pc against user stupidity.
I'm not going to argue which is ultimately better because I use Windows and Mac now equally. For a home user looking for a reliable simple setup I think Mac may be the easier option (but more $$$); however, in a corporate environment Mac really doesn't have much of a place because the business software just isn't written to support that OS.
And besides.......... Apple stuff just looks cool
and works well..... can you tell me you bash Mac and don't use an iPod?