<p>Not true. Running four or five virus/malware scanners weekly to make sure system speed is not slowly being compromised. Macs are more secure.</p>
<p>Hey there, </p>
<p>I need to buy a laptop for use at Penn. Maybe you can give me good advice.
A lot of people were convincing me to get a MAC, but for financial and other reasons I wanna stick with Windows.
I wanna waste around 1400 dollars on it. I would go from 1400 up to, lets say, 1600, only if it was really necessary and an excellent investment.
I was thinking bout getting a DELL or IBM from Penn Connections, but lately a lot of people are tellin me the Sony VAIO laptops are the best fot the price range Im aiming for. So Im planning to get the VAIO FS or FE series (online).</p>
<p>Any thoughts? Thankx a lot</p>
<p>it's really not a big deal. You can schedule a lot of programs to run at night so you don't have to deal with decreased performance / hassle, and they autoupdate</p>
<p>mac hacks are on the rise, theyre not gonna be that safe for long.</p>
<p>Sure attacks are on the rise (anything up from the previous zero would be a rise), but they're not going to rise that much. Furthermore the Mac is built on a fundamentally more secure UNIX platform.</p>
<p>No the Mac is not invinceable, but it's certainly a lot safer than Windows. The proof is in the pudding, and I have no better proof than that neither my Mac or the Mac of any of my friends and colleagues has never gotten a blip of spyware, viruses, or hacking.</p>
<p>Johnny K--as Macs become more popular, the hacking will increase. And the biggest problem with this is that there are no commercially available virus-scanning programs available for the Mac at the current time. At least with the Windows platform there are Kaspersky, McAfee, Norton (Symatec), and many others that at least do a halfway decent job.</p>
<p>Linux is safer than any of the operating systems offered by either Apple or Microsoft, but this doesn't mean that people will adapt to this, since it is difficult to learn. The same applies to Apple. Since people like easy things to use, the hackers will attack these as they become more popular and easier to use. Just give it time.</p>
<p>Calcruzer: Norton has anti-virus software for Mac. Check out its website.</p>
<p>Calcruzer: Norton has it, and moreover Penn provides it for free to Penn students.</p>
<p>Regardless, I personally don't use it nor do I recommend using it as the overhead just wastes system resources, and frankly if a Mac virus were ever in a wild it would be so amazing as to be in the news.</p>
<p>Am I cocky? Absolutely, and justifiably so.</p>
<p>Just buy the cheapest lappy there is and install Ubuntu on it.</p>
<p>Hey everyone, </p>
<p>You can get a student discount of up to 12% at Penn's Dell Website. Computer Connection doesnt have a wide selection so I would recommend going to <a href="http://www.dell.com/penn%5B/url%5D">www.dell.com/penn</a>
to see other computers with a great discount. The computers on this website allow you to customize the computers as to buying the prepackaged laptops available at Computer Connection.</p>
<p>Good luck with your computer purchases!!!!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dell.com/penn%5B/url%5D">www.dell.com/penn</a></p>
<p>If you have any questions about Dell please feel free to email me <a href="mailto:dchilds@dellrep.com">dchilds@dellrep.com</a></p>