My PM935TS arrived today!!!

THX WR...

I used to be pretty sharp with Windoz... kinda let it slide years ago.

The next build will be a Linux... I have a lot of gyro friends that run Linux... all the coaching I need will be free... :)

I do like your gaming machine though... :)

The machine I rebuilt (oldie but goodie): Intel DB48 series (socket 775) MB, with Core2/Quadcore processor running at 3G... with 8G of ram (all the board will do), front bus at 1333. Machine is MORE than fast enough for what I need... probably will run it until it quits.

My Linux friends use VERY old hardware with good results. Once one gets away from Windoz... they realize they do not heed all the HP (horsepower)... :)
 
My iMac is less prone to virus/malware issues than the common windows machine, and I still do development work in X11 (UNIX) and even still use Gimp (UNIX based photo editor) and other utilities more often than I do anything on the windows machine. When you buy a Mac, X11 and all the development tools come with it for free. I like the free OS upgrades too. :)

I have friends that use CentOS and other Linux variants (we test under the Enterprise versions at work) and agree that they don't require half the processing power a windows system does with all it's backwards compatibility garbage it drags around with it.

Of course dealing with all the details of the various distributions can be a bit of a snit, but as you said you have friends that should know how to deal with this stuff.
 
wrmiller19 said:
My iMac is less prone to virus/malware issues than the common windows machine...
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I haven't had a single virus on any of my 3 desktops since 2007 ... which is when I dumped Norton... which is practically a virus on its own... after it had allowed a virus to install a "tool bar helper" in IE, and didn't recognize it as a virus, and couldn't remove it (McAfee had it in their virus database, but Norton didn't).

After Norton, I installed ESET32, which has been awesome. No viruses, and no huge memory and CPU hogging program running in the background, reasonably priced. ESET32 frequently wins awards from reputable magazines which don't sell companies their "Golden Award advertising package" (which Norton seems to win).
 
I don't run any virus/malware programs on the Mac, but all of my machines sit behind two hardware and one software firewall. And I ONLY go online on the windows machine to download game updates. No web surfing on that thing...
 
wrmiller19 said:
My iMac is less prone to virus/malware issues than the common windows machine, and I still do development work in X11 (UNIX) and even still use Gimp (UNIX based photo editor) and other utilities more often than I do anything on the windows machine. When you buy a Mac, X11 and all the development tools come with it for free. I like the free OS upgrades too. :)

I have friends that use CentOS and other Linux variants (we test under the Enterprise versions at work) and agree that they don't require half the processing power a windows system does with all it's backwards compatibility garbage it drags around with it.

Of course dealing with all the details of the various distributions can be a bit of a snit, but as you said you have friends that should know how to deal with this stuff.
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THX Bill...

The 'flavors' of Linus my friends like are Zorin, Mint, and Ubuntu... in that order.
Seems like most of what folks do with home and SOHO computers can be done on Linux without much difficulty.
 
tmarks11 said:
I haven't had a single virus on any of my 3 desktops since 2007 ... which is when I dumped Norton... which is practically a virus on its own... after it had allowed a virus to install a "tool bar helper" in IE, and didn't recognize it as a virus, and couldn't remove it (McAfee had it in their virus database, but Norton didn't).

After Norton, I installed ESET32, which has been awesome. No viruses, and no huge memory and CPU hogging program running in the background, reasonably priced. ESET32 frequently wins awards from reputable magazines which don't sell companies their "Golden Award advertising package" (which Norton seems to win).
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This is one of the AV/malware packages I (my friend) chose... seems to work fine!
I can say this: Malwarebytes is a resource hog... and it does not seem to work that well.

And yeah... Norton, IMO, may well be paid to allow stuff to get through.... EEEKKKKK
 
wrmiller19 said:
I don't run any virus/malware programs on the Mac, but all of my machines sit behind two hardware and one software firewall. And I ONLY go online on the windows machine to download game updates. No web surfing on that thing...
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If it is not a forum (frequent 5), a link in a post, some specific regular sites, youtube, or Amazon... I rarely get onto the internet.

Yeah... surfing for fun will get you infected... :(
 
wrmiller19 said:
I don't run any virus/malware programs on the Mac, but all of my machines sit behind two hardware and one software firewall. And I ONLY go online on the windows machine to download game updates. No web surfing on that thing...
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Bill,....tsk tsk tsk....aren't you a little too old to play games on puters? For one, they keep you from machining and make you believe it's ok to shoot people....:lmao:

Which reminds me...I have to get a PS4 soon, since Uncharted 4 comes out in 2015......
 
I've been playing games on a computer since '81. :)
 
johnwell said:
Bill,....tsk tsk tsk....aren't you a little too old to play games on puters? For one, they keep you from machining and make you believe it's ok to shoot people....:lmao:

Which reminds me...I have to get a PS4 soon, since Uncharted 4 comes out in 2015......
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And there is a problem with this... :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Only under the appropriate circumstances though... :rofl::rofl::lmao::lmao::roflmao::roflmao::rubbinghands::rubbinghands::applause::applause:
 
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