I have a Mac, but is getting a PC really worth it?

[Drink More Tea]

A mac is simply a PC which comes with an OS which is neither as popular as Windows, nor as secure as either GNU/Linux or BSD.

 

[bass.bandito]

Bootcamp > Windows.
Bootcamp > Linux.
Bootcamp + Windows 7 = win.

Just use bootcamp like i'm doing right now. If you get a virus just delete the partition

 

[flipperace]

A mac is simply a PC which comes with an OS which is neither as popular as Windows, nor as secure as either GNU/Linux or BSD.

Mac is Unix based and Unix is sick and used in most enterprise areas such as banks Mac's are secure if you know how to operate the terminal you can even change the serial so.

I will still take my Vaio over any Mac any day of the week.

My advice would be buy a pc for 300 off of compusa install windows (dual boot ubuntu) assign it an ip, rdp through your Mac and Never speak of this thread again

 

[SeeGoldTees]

I just ended up buying two really nice PC's. One is a desktop and the other is a business laptop. There's 6 gb of ram on the laptop and 8 gb on the desktop. I'm fine with connection, the only thing that slowed me down was the speed of the programs and it did turn out to be because I only had 2 gb of ram on my laptop.

 

[pigp3n]

virtualbox is the free vmware/bootcamp.
I have virtualbox running servers, and on macs and linux all with windows inside.
it is FREE gnu PL free. If you are not looking at that then you are wasting money for your needs listed.

 

[Drink More Tea]

Mac is Unix based and Unix is sick and used in most enterprise areas such as banks Mac's are secure if you know how to operate the terminal you can even change the serial so.

I will still take my Vaio over any Mac any day of the week.

My advice would be buy a pc for 300 off of compusa install windows (dual boot ubuntu) assign it an ip, rdp through your Mac and Never speak of this thread again

I've never been in a bank which has used apple macs for anything, and certainly they wouldn't use them for any purpose other than looking nice on someones desk. No security professional in the world would recommend that they are used as, for example, a server.

 

[pr0ject]

Vmware > Install Windows = All the problems solved
But yea, a VPS can be a good way.

 

[terryuk]

Boot Camp.

I buy Macs to install Windows, they are small + tidy machines

But you don't want too much clutter on one machine right, best to get things dotted around the place.

 

[Silverion]

Boot Camp works pretty well and helps you to use both Macs and PCs. Otherwise you can just buy a really cheap PC and it'll work.