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[Nvyseal]

images/news/apple.jpgFor a long time popular belief held that the Apple Mac OS never had any problems and had no viruses. Today we know there are viruses and Trojans that target the Mac OS and the operating system has its share of issues from time to time. According to reports coming in now, the newest version of Mac OS called Snow Leopard is randomly deleting user data.

There are a number of posts on the Apple support boards form users who are claiming that user data in their home folders are being automatically deleted when using the Guest account login feature. Boy Genius Report claims that so far the only way to fix the issue has been to restore from a backup.

Apple has yet to officially acknowledge the issue. One poster on the forums going by tcnsdca wrote, “I had something very similar happen. I had the guest account enabled on my MBP – I accidentally clicked on that when I went to log in. It took a few minutes to log in then after I had logged out of that account and back into mine my enter home directory had been wiped. All of doc, music, etc gone.”

[hog]

After reading this, I did a little research myself and wrote an article on this bug on VIAroot.com on my first official day as Technical Writer for Heptacube Inc. Yes, I got the job I had been talking about and am very very happy of it. This is my first real job!

I'm working on a Macmini here at work, and I'm still not really used to it yet, but it's not Snow Leopard so I'm safe. And I have one of those old Mac mice, with only one button. Man that is weird!

[VoodooGuru]

MACs are just glorified, overpriced PCs running UNIX on an Intel platform and with a fancy candy coated interface. I have fixed dozens of them at my current job and had my hands inside everything from a pizza box, a lamp, a G5 Dual CPU, the iMac 20" Intel based units and the servers.

My Hackintosh running on a Dell Dimension E310 runs better and crashes less than the iMAC 20" Intel based unit on my desktop at work.

The parts inside, aside from being specially made to fit inside the case are no different than regular PCs. I've seen FoxConn 'Logic*' boards, Matsushita CD/DVD drives, Seagate and Western Digital hard drives, ATI and NVidia graphics cards... all standard PC parts.

My iMAC 20" dual core Intel 2 GHZ was crashing so often, I finally said frak it and wiped and reinstalled the OS. It still crashes 2 or 3 times a day. IMO, they are all over priced pieces of 5h1t.

I had to take an iMac 20" Intel based system in for a repair the other day. First of all, you have to make an appointment, then you have to drive 35 miles each way. If it needs hardware replaced, you have to leave it there and then make a second trip to pick it up when it's ready.

If they would make the hardware available to a computer technician (actually Information Technology manager, my job title) such as myself, I could have replaced it myself. Instead, they had to do it and it cost $351.00 to have a graphics card (ATI 2400HD) replaced.

I went off on the poor soul who was taking care of me and told her that I knew what what wrong with it before I brought it in and that if it was a PC, I could have had the part replaced in 15 minutes for (much) less than $100.00. Several customers at the 'Genius' bar got up and walked out. Wah-waaaah.

Put me in the place of the geeky looking PC guy** on the Apple commercials and I'd have that punk MAC user crying in a New York nanosecond and crawling away with his tail between his legs sniveling and groveling.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Just the facts, mam.

MACs are better than PCs? It's their lie and they can tell it any way they like.

One more thing, I just got the Snow Leopard update and I'm now a bit wary of installing it.

*They can't even call it what it really is... motherboard, system board, main board... whatever...

**They intentionally try to portray the PC guy as a geek. I don't dress like that, in fact I dress way cooler than the punk MAC kid.

Edited by VoodooGuru, 16 October 2009 - 05:09 AM.

[stormrosson]

Way to go Don , I couldn't agree more (although I could have used many more colorful expletives hehehehe) you think there mite be an ETA on when the Man bullsh*t lies will actually become common knowledge to those elitist, Mac snob/a**holes?

[VoodooGuru]

I have contact numbers for Microsoft advertising department and want to submit an idea for a commercial... I just have to script it and copyright it so they can't steal my idea and not give me credit for it... I wonder if I could get royalties or something if they used it?... nyuk, nyuk

[stormrosson]

mmmmmmmmmm royalties......Why I outta (best Moe I could come up with this early) ......