Originally Posted by
ScottC
Scare tactics.
Scare people enough into buying your crap, and they will.
And don't forget; a very large portion of that software is in preinstalled stuff that people don't renew anyway.
Actually I think while most people dont renew their pre-installed crap, their profits come from the people who dont know better and do renew it.
Common sense and a firewall on your router is pretty much the only antivirus you need. I dont know why people insist on touting Firefox/Apple/you-name-it as a replacement for that.
Macs are fine but they are not more stable than PC's. That was true before XP. But XP is rock solid. Lets put it this way when we had Win 98, XP was a relief as it was stable and better. Few complained about that change. But XP is now stable enough that many people cannot see stability or security as a reason to upgrade to Vista.
So give credit where it is use. Win XP aka NT 5.1 has elimated any advantage Macs had with respect to stability of platform.
As for MacBooks they are fine, but its just a consumer choice of what device you want to use at this point, Dell, Mac Panasonic, IBM, whatever. Pick your device. Let no one fool you into getting caught up in the hype of "this one is a better platfrom, the other one is evil" etc...