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aero86:
under a minute, possibly slow? that sounds kinda funny. macs are nice, ive got an old imac as decoration above my computer desk. they just arent cost effective for some people. like me. lol.
anyways, i have a little bitty limited run emachines netbook, basically an acer. was a walmart special. got it for 220 at walmart. spent 40 bucks for 2 gigs ram, and i love it. it had 7 basic, but i upgraded to home premium. runs it really well, and i love the netbook, even if it is small. doesnt take it any time to load. windows really did it right when the created 7.
mullet:
Justin, The computer guy's at the geek store talked the wife into loading Kaspersky. She got Trojans, and and all kinds of Spyware. My notebook has Norton and I never had a problem. We wiped her's clean and switched to Norton and haven't had a problem.
Justin Snyder:
Eddie, that is why I say it is still Windows. There just aren't any guarantees. Also why I say use a free service.
gstoneberg:
--- Quote from: Justin Snyder on September 22, 2010, 07:53:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: paganwannbe on September 22, 2010, 07:42:42 pm ---I know but my Ubuntu's up to that in 15 seconds plugged in and 20 seconds on battery
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You Ubuntu is command prompt, not something most people want to deal with. It doesn't need any virus protection though. It is awesome for programing and completely open source, what more could you ask for.
I run parallels with ubuntu on my mac and have it on a flash drive for my windows machine.
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I know you're not bashing linux Justin, but Ubuntu is the first unix/linux I've used that isn't command line. You can run it command line and I sometimes do, but even the install was all GUI and the defaults came up and worked right out of the box, even wireless networking and printing. It honestly is as easy as windows and certainly faster. I'm impressed with it and I've installed and run many linux and unix versions since I began using unix in 1983. Most are command line, as you say, and that has kept me employed for a very long time. I worked with the original AT&T as long as it existed, it was a fun ride.
I'm also impressed with your MAC's unix OS, easily the best graphics implementation out there. If they weren't so pricy, I'd have one.
George
Justin Snyder:
George, I actually just bought my first Mac. I am working on my bachelors in visual technologies (graphic arts) and have been using windows machines at home and Macs at school. The fact that Mac is based on Unix is what makes it more secure than Windows.
Ubuntu still requires a lot of command prompt for creating directories and creating files. EMACS and VI still has to be done using command prompt. They are making it a lot more user friendly. PCLinuxOS is supposed to look 50% like Windows, but I haven't tried it to see.
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