thinking about getting an Apple Mini for my grandparents

kermalou

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what do you guys think?

i have a Win XP system I can give them but dont want the headaches of having to fix this and that.

Thanks, Shawn
 

iamme

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give them XP SP2 with updates, turn on automatic updates, take away administrator rights, install antivirus (auto update definitions), install firewall....should be fine, imo.

 

DaveSimmons

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Originally posted by: kermalou
do i have to worry about spyware and stuff with the mac?
Soon. Serving ads and creating zombie spam mailers is a business now, not just the province of punk kid vandals. There's money to be made infecting macs, even if it's a tiny population compared to Windows PCs.

Still, even as mac exploits appear there will be 100 Windows threats for every mac one.