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You can use all the same stuff as a regular PC usually. PCI slots are the same on both Mac & PCs. Hard drives, CD/DVD burners, RAM etc. is all the same. USB & Firewire devices 95% of the time just work when plugged in.

Bluetooth is a piece of cake on a Mac - no fiddling around with drivers, bluetooth stacks etc. at all. Just plug in any old USB dongle and it works instantly.

More often than not you just plug the thing in to the Mac and it detects it automatically - no configuration required. Occasionally, especially for graphics cards you may need to get Mac drivers from the manufacturers site. All the big name manufacterers make Mac drivers, most likely not the smaller manufacturers though.
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Posted: 2006-07-06 16:29:32
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whoops, im gonna use PC anyway, was thinkin of using mac, but i just dont like em... they look nice, and i like a change, but i dunno, i just am used to PC and i dunno. I cant explain, i just like them, vista is nice, i dont like the desktop of macs, too expensive, i cant describe it right now, i dunno why... you gotta be dumb to get a virus anyway!(even though i had one before lol)
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Posted: 2006-07-06 17:29:20
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Why not Linux then?

you dont need to buy a new machine to put one I would rather stick the good ol' pc

Am a big fan of Knoppix ...
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Posted: 2006-07-07 23:16:55
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Maybe this would be of interest

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/[....]s/0,2000061744,39241748,00.htm
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Posted: 2006-07-08 04:58:35
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That's very old news - and inaccurate. What the article doesn't mention, is that the 'hacker' had local access to the machine.

It's worth noting that more accurate, follow-up articles stated all the security news is much ado about nothing, in practical terms. The security contest allowed people to have local access via SSH, so that had a lot to do with the crack.

Anyone can 'hack' a computer if you have local access!
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Posted: 2006-07-08 08:53:44
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Some comments i found on a site regarding this... Quote:
Arghhhh! For god's sake, you're all missing the point!!!

Has nobody else looked beyond the bluster about Mac vs PC and noticed the truly bizarre aspect in all of this:

Why would Sophos, an antivirus vendor, advise customers to switch to the 100% virus-free Mac OS, when their business only exists thanks to a widespread OS that is literally swamped with malware?

Take you pick from these possible answers:

a) They are really nice people and don't care about their bottom line so much as making the world a better, happier, apple-flavoured place. Aaah.

b) They are getting overwhelmed writing daily Windows virus fixes and want a holiday, which can only happen if people move to Mac OS X.

c) They can't grow their Windows market share any more and want to expand into Mac OS X - which only becomes viable if more people buy Macs.

d) They just hate Microsoft and facied a cheap bash at the goose that lays the virus-infested golden egg.

e) They have a clever PR department with a small budget and figured this might just get a bit of coverage...

f) They just bought shares in Apple?

g) They are cynical, evil geniuses, fed up of all the untested hype about Mac security and wanted to make OS X a sexy target, thus destroying the last refuge of beautiful, creative and peaceful folk living in harmony with their computers.

h) They just felt kinda guilty after all these years of taking money for old rope - like a Big Pharma selling a palliative instead of a cure - and decided it was time to restore their karmic balance. So they fessed up.

j) They got drunk at the office party and let slip that the answer has been staring us in the face the whole time (if only we would click our heels together three times and say "there's no place like Cupertino").

k) All of the above.


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Posted: 2006-07-08 10:55:23
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