Mac Discussion

Just some observations.
I have had Macs since the SE30 days. I use PCs at work. I rarely need to update anything on my macs.
A few months back I got a great price on a EEE PC 900xp netbook to be used for traveling. Great little unit(2 lbs), started out with a 8gb SSD. OK, add CCleaner to trim down and keep the crap from piling up on the C drive. Added AVG anti Virus, great free program but did notice a drop in speed.
Unlike my Mac, where I just log on and use w/o any Anti any thing programs. On the XP unit I first need to check for program updates, check for Microsoft fixes/updates, Check for AVG updates and then run a scan every couple of days at 30 - 40 minutes each, Check for CCleaner updates and then run the program. etc, etc
I bumped up the ram to 2gb, no problem except I had to update the BIOS for this to work. Simple procedure, but if it goes wrong you "brick" the unit.
I have been experimenting with some long range WIFI antennas, the EEE PC with a external USD WIFI is great for this. I started to notice that on a few of the signals I was seeing the normal "linksys" then it would quickly flash "US Airways Free WIFI" Great! A free WIFI provider!. Wrong! It is a nasty Bot Virus. Run all my programs and clean everything out again.
And then I sit down on my old Emac, log on enjoy, relax, no problems.Now if I could only get a small cheap Mac netbook. As a side note they are hacking the EEE PC to run OSX.
Jeff K.

Look into getting a Dell Mini 10v and installing OS 10.6.1 (10.6.2 won't work).

You might find these threads interesting (if Dealmac doesn't mess with the links).

[forums.macresource.com]

[forums.macresource.com]

Good luck.

- Winston

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Be seeing you.

Actually, the second thread is not as helpful as I thought. It's mostly about trying to speed up an old Mac laptop, or replace it with a cheaper new Mac laptop (although the title is about setting up a Hackintosh).

If you google around there is lots of info on setting up a Dell Mini 10v with OS X.

- W

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Be seeing you.

I run the free ClamWin [www.clamwin.com] on my Acer netbook running WindowsXP. I choose ClamWin because there is absolutely NO performance hit when using ClamWin - which is very important when running on slower machines. Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.

Secondly, I make a habit of never using Internet Explorer to browse the internet. I use Firefox.

The eeeuser.com forums has a great section on the running OSX on the EEE PC. I second the vote for Firefox.
Jeff K.

Jeff K. Wrote:
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> Now if I could only get a small
> cheap Mac netbook.

You can!

iPod touch, $199.

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Nemo me impune lacessit

Winston Wrote:
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> Look into getting a Dell Mini 10v and installing
> OS 10.6.1 (10.6.2 won't work).
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> You might find these threads interesting (if
> Dealmac doesn't mess with the links).
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> Good luck.
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> - Winston
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> Be seeing you.

Looks like they pulled the code that used to rewrite links to "there" during one of the forum software upgrades.