Comments on: Tech Sec: Getting The Right Student PC http://www.dabbler.ca/technology/tech-sec-getting-the-right-student-pc-20080825/ Something for Everyone Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:25:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Raul http://www.dabbler.ca/technology/tech-sec-getting-the-right-student-pc-20080825/comment-page-1/#comment-2296 Raul Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:06:37 +0000 http://www.dabbler.ca/?p=1762#comment-2296 Morten, Great post! I really like it :) Morten,

Great post! I really like it :)

]]> By: Mad Morten http://www.dabbler.ca/technology/tech-sec-getting-the-right-student-pc-20080825/comment-page-1/#comment-2279 Mad Morten Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:13:52 +0000 http://www.dabbler.ca/?p=1762#comment-2279 @ Jeff: I guess it might come off that way but I'm not a Microsoft fanboy by any stretch. I do however have a healthy disdain for the misleading and monopolizing empire Mr. Jobs is building: It's one thing to drain your customers for money because they think they are cooler for using your product. It's another to blatantly lie to them about their competitors. As long as Apple refuses to play fair (i.e. lets you install their OS on any machine like Microsoft, Linux and every other OS does) you shouldn't be giving them money. If things were turned around and Microsoft pulled the same kind of crap Apple does on their customers on a daily basis they would be stuck in court on a permanent basis. Yet Apple gets away with it. If I had a choice I would run Ubuntu on all my machines. Unfortunately I use software that only runs on Windows or Mac, and of the two there really is no comparison. @ Jeff: I guess it might come off that way but I’m not a Microsoft fanboy by any stretch. I do however have a healthy disdain for the misleading and monopolizing empire Mr. Jobs is building: It’s one thing to drain your customers for money because they think they are cooler for using your product. It’s another to blatantly lie to them about their competitors. As long as Apple refuses to play fair (i.e. lets you install their OS on any machine like Microsoft, Linux and every other OS does) you shouldn’t be giving them money. If things were turned around and Microsoft pulled the same kind of crap Apple does on their customers on a daily basis they would be stuck in court on a permanent basis. Yet Apple gets away with it.

If I had a choice I would run Ubuntu on all my machines. Unfortunately I use software that only runs on Windows or Mac, and of the two there really is no comparison.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.dabbler.ca/technology/tech-sec-getting-the-right-student-pc-20080825/comment-page-1/#comment-2277 Jeff Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:37:19 +0000 http://www.dabbler.ca/?p=1762#comment-2277 You're obviously quite the M$ fanboy, but you're also being fairly mis-leading, perhaps unintentionally: "you are forced to buy Mac software which again is more pricy than PC software." The most common software a student needs is a word processor, and iWork is a much better value than Office, right? "And when it comes to viruses, 99.99999% of them can be blocked by doing three simple things: Turn on Windows Firewall, download the free version of AVG anti-virus and buy yourself a cheap router to put between your notebook and the outside world." The router issue realy doesn't help students on Wifi on a University network, though, does it? I agree about the firewall, but turning on the OS X firewall *also* makes it much safer, you know, form all those Mac viruses floating around. Personally I'm a mac guy but I agree that they're a bit pricey; my best recommendation personally would be something like an MSI Wind running Ubuntu 8 instead. You’re obviously quite the M$ fanboy, but you’re also being fairly mis-leading, perhaps unintentionally:

“you are forced to buy Mac software which again is more pricy than PC software.”

The most common software a student needs is a word processor, and iWork is a much better value than Office, right?

“And when it comes to viruses, 99.99999% of them can be blocked by doing three simple things: Turn on Windows Firewall, download the free version of AVG anti-virus and buy yourself a cheap router to put between your notebook and the outside world.”

The router issue realy doesn’t help students on Wifi on a University network, though, does it? I agree about the firewall, but turning on the OS X firewall *also* makes it much safer, you know, form all those Mac viruses floating around.

Personally I’m a mac guy but I agree that they’re a bit pricey; my best recommendation personally would be something like an MSI Wind running Ubuntu 8 instead.

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