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Sephire said:
It doesn't slow down my computer.
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Yes it does. You're just not sensitive to speed differences. I have zero tolerance for un necessary latency and find it intolerable to run. It's the primary reason why I run SLC HDDs in RAID0 and use 192GB of system memory with 64GB of it dedicated to caching disk i/o. I record music and the latency is simply UN-acceptable even on the fastest hardware available.

If you're simply surfing, playing games even on a "modern" computer you probably won't know.

Some people settle for MP3, some have to have FLAC...
 
T_Yamamoto said:
^LOL
theres people who like their rigs quiet,
but this guy wants it fast fast fast

you running 2 SSDs in RAID0?
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24 of them (12 Pliant LB 206S spread across two Areca ARC 1882IX24 cards with 4GB cache). 4.6GB/S R/W, 260,000 IOPs.

System is quiet. (water cooled with chiller in remote location)
 
Minerva said:
Yes it does. You're just not sensitive to speed differences. I have zero tolerance for un necessary latency and find it intolerable to run. It's the primary reason why I run SLC HDDs in RAID0 and use 192GB of system memory with 64GB of it dedicated to caching disk i/o. I record music and the latency is simply UN-acceptable even on the fastest hardware available.

If you're simply surfing, playing games even on a "modern" computer you probably won't know.

Some people settle for MP3, some have to have FLAC...
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If it slows down your computer, you need a new one.
 
zerocool84 said:
If an antivirus program noticeably slowed down your computer, you need a faster computer.
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That one I can agree with, assuming that we're talking about reasonable antivirus programs and not the INCREDIBLY resource-heavy bloatware that Norton, Symantec and the like put out.
 
postmortemIA said:
It is Java vulnerability. Just like in Windows world, lots of malware spreads via Flash or Java exploits; same occurs in Mac world.
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It is admirable that you are trying to use common sense in thread completely devoid of logic. Futile, but admirable non the less.

-KeithP
 
zerocool84 said:
If it slows down your computer, you need a new one.
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You miss the point completely. It does (as already pointed out) and since it's useless why bother? Security begins MUCH further up the chain. If malicious traffic is reaching your NIC in the first place you are doing things very wrong. 😉
 
lxskllr said:
Yea, that's a nasty one...
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Death by 1000 paper cuts. There's one of those roughly every day on Windows to the point your scanner's signature file is tens of thousands of entries long.

You still don't even need a virus scanner on the Mac.
 
dwell said:
Death by 1000 paper cuts. There's one of those roughly every day on Windows to the point your scanner's signature file is tens of thousands of entries long.

You still don't even need a virus scanner on the Mac.
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Yet you have a built in malware detector. lol
 
Minerva said:
Yes it does. You're just not sensitive to speed differences. I have zero tolerance for un necessary latency and find it intolerable to run. It's the primary reason why I run SLC HDDs in RAID0 and use 192GB of system memory with 64GB of it dedicated to caching disk i/o. I record music and the latency is simply UN-acceptable even on the fastest hardware available.

If you're simply surfing, playing games even on a "modern" computer you probably won't know.

Some people settle for MP3, some have to have FLAC...
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Not sure if serious.
 
dwell said:
Death by 1000 paper cuts. There's one of those roughly every day on Windows to the point your scanner's signature file is tens of thousands of entries long.

You still don't even need a virus scanner on the Mac.
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This isn't a Windows vs Mac thing, I just think it's stupid to go on the internet without some sort of security software.

It's writing issue too. Stuff like MSE is practically invisible and only comes up when it really needs to. Symantec and the like are terrible even on modern systems.
 
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