Friday, April 07, 2006
Spyware, Adware and Viruses, Oh My!
Early Wednesday morning Apple dropped the bomb about Boot Camp, and it wasn't long before the blogging community went to work. Most, well, who am I kidding, every one that I have read seems to think this is the greatest think since the Apple II.
So, after a day's reflection on the topic of running Windows XP on an iMac 17-inch 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo
as I sit here watching my other computer — a Windows-based PC — I can't help but wonder if this is really such a good thing? Isn't the whole point in owning a Mac so you don't have to use Windows?
While all the excited Macheads were out buying up copies of Windows XP, I was checking out some of the finer print on the Boot Camp. Yes, running Windows along side Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" will make your iMac vulnerable to attacks from spyware, malware, worms and viruses. The same ones that just this week Microsoft security officer Mike Danseglio admitted just this week there was little they could do about. In fact, his advice was to wipe the drive clean and start over.
The same drive you partitioned to install Windows and OS X, so guess what — you just lost everything.
Another note about running Windows and OS X on the same machine. They won't be able to talk to each other. In fact, they won't even be able to share information. So, the project you won't be able to open the project you started working on in Microsoft Word with Apple Works once you've switch operating systems. Nope, you'll have to reboot back to Windows. And if you run two different e-mail programs like Outlook Express for Windows and Apple Mail for OS X, you had better leave everything on the server or you'll also have to reboot if you want to go back to the message you read when you were working in Windows.
There is one other thing mentioned by a few bloggers today that deserves a little moscrutinyity while we are on this topic. Some people are already speculating about how long it will to get OS X running on a PC now that Windows has been booted on a Mac. It's the obvious next step, but I wonder if the folks at Apple have thought about this. If average Joe who already complains about the cost of printer ink can buy a $500 Dell and run OS X why would he pay $1299 for an iMac?
So, after a day's reflection on the topic of running Windows XP on an iMac 17-inch 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo
While all the excited Macheads were out buying up copies of Windows XP, I was checking out some of the finer print on the Boot Camp. Yes, running Windows along side Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger"
The same drive you partitioned to install Windows and OS X, so guess what — you just lost everything.
Another note about running Windows and OS X on the same machine. They won't be able to talk to each other. In fact, they won't even be able to share information. So, the project you won't be able to open the project you started working on in Microsoft Word with Apple Works once you've switch operating systems. Nope, you'll have to reboot back to Windows. And if you run two different e-mail programs like Outlook Express for Windows and Apple Mail for OS X, you had better leave everything on the server or you'll also have to reboot if you want to go back to the message you read when you were working in Windows.
There is one other thing mentioned by a few bloggers today that deserves a little moscrutinyity while we are on this topic. Some people are already speculating about how long it will to get OS X running on a PC now that Windows has been booted on a Mac. It's the obvious next step, but I wonder if the folks at Apple have thought about this. If average Joe who already complains about the cost of printer ink can buy a $500 Dell and run OS X why would he pay $1299 for an iMac?
# posted by Apple Bytes @ 7:56 AM 
