^the first ever virus was written for what type of computer???^

the whole virus thing is blow out of proportion. I don't even run an antivirus. I get by with a simple 100kb script blocker and that's all. it's surprisingly effective as well.

basically the whole virus thing an advertising thing from apple moreso than anything else. Any technically inclined user basically doesn't need to worry about viruses. You might need to worry for your mother, or your grandfather or the dumb kid down the street, but as for myself... no issues. and should I have an issue... a fresh windows install is one CD away.

apple's biggest marketting ploy is "it's not windows"
big wow that's true of... everything else... again I run linux. windows is far from perfect it's big selling point is it's support. In windows, things just work. That's because of microsoft's market domination. vendor lock in is both a blessing and a cuirse to the consumer. we have an inferior OS in many aspects but things work. 3rd parties make their drivers for windows first, OSX and linux get handmedowns and are treated as not second class but 3rd class, most programs are not based off of a unix system. I can buy more or less any piece of hardware and it will work. Windows has the desktop industry, linux and mainstreme BSD(OSX is based off of BSD but except in niche markets it makes a relatively poor work station OS as far as productivity is concerned) have the server and workstation industries.

FYI I don't hate macs, they have their place and that's probably in portables. laptops don't have much power. they're general use machines. macbooks are rather well polished and very well implemented I'm saying that from first hand experience. the quality might not be exceptional, but the sheer degree of integration is. Laptop side... everything is proprietory and general use is king. That makes the market there rather good for apple's platform... and laptops are the future more and more people are buying them over desktops. And the moment apple sells their systems at competitive prices I might even bite on.

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OBAMA and BIDEN - 'we fight for you, blah blah we fight for you', theres only one man in this election that has fought for you, ONLY ONE and its not Obama.