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Joe Kesselman wrote:
>> You're kidding, right?
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> No.

OS 9?
 
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no I have opted to purchase one.
it came with one
and my univesity has a purchase plan with apple
cost for me is for the media only.
I have had no virus problems
I have had no security problems
 

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what about the weekly 'patches''?
cheers,
Bob

"CeeDub" <craigmw@EFFOFFSPAMcox.net> schreef in bericht
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> "dale" <dallen@frognet.net> wrote in message
> news:1120151520.297901.228470@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >I am running 10.2 on my audio partition
> > 10.3 is on a my general purposes partition,
> > I am considering an upgrade to 10.4 as it has aggriated audio device
> > capacity.
> > Metric Halo has just issued drivers and beta software for10.4.
> > (TC Electronics has also issued a 10.4 patch for spark xl. )
>
> Okay, so you too then have opted to purchase at least three versions of
> MacOS (including the one that shipped with your computer) since OSX was
> introduced 4 years ago. In the same time, there has been only one version
of
> XP that I've had to purchase.
>
> Craig
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"Troy" <alternate-root@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> I woulden't worry about it my G5 will last me for years to come as it does
> everything I need it to do.If you are always waiting on the latest
> greatest
> thing you will be waiting a long time.Also I woulden't dump a bunch of
> money
> into a new 64 bit PC without the proper windows 64 bit operating system
> even
> being on the market yet.You may be setting yourself up for a lot of
> trouble.
>
You don't get out much do you? Windows XP 64-bit edition is now
commercially available. I've got it running on an Athlon64 PC right now.

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david wrote:
> Some people believe that Jobs wants people to compare both OS's on the
> same machine, cuz of Jobs' belief that OS X will be considerably better
> and faster than whatever Gates' Longhorn finally ends up being released
> next year. Kinda ballsey, eh?
>
> It'll also be interesting to watch the hacker world try to make OS X
> load and work on a standard PC. In this game of cops and robbers, will
> the hackers be smarter than whatever Apple comes up with to prevent
> it??

It may also have to do with "trusted computing"; hardware level
"protection" which means a movie or an mp3 won't run unless you've paid
for it.- or an MS Word document won't open in OpenOffice. Scary stuff.
Intel is big in this.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

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"Bob" <b.dewever@amc.uva.nl> wrote in
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> what about the weekly 'patches''?
> cheers,
> Bob


PATCHES?! We don't need no stinkin' patches!
 

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Bill Ruys <bill.ruys@nospam.siliconaudio.co.nz> wrote in message
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> "Troy" <alternate-root@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:wHBwe.1828569$6l.581899@pd7tw2no...
> > I woulden't worry about it my G5 will last me for years to come as it
does
> > everything I need it to do.If you are always waiting on the latest
> > greatest
> > thing you will be waiting a long time.Also I woulden't dump a bunch of
> > money
> > into a new 64 bit PC without the proper windows 64 bit operating system
> > even
> > being on the market yet.You may be setting yourself up for a lot of
> > trouble.
> >
> You don't get out much do you? Windows XP 64-bit edition is now
> commercially available. I've got it running on an Athlon64 PC right now.
>
> Bill.
>
>

I am well aware of that Bill......as I said a "proper" 64 bit OS.XP 64 bit
is just re hashed I was refering to Longhorn
 
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