[DM-MUG] Fwd: [MacLaw] Why I use a Mac

[Barry Von Ahsen]

"...and it was, like, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.  It was a really 
good paper"

:)

-barry


Victoria L. Herring wrote:
>  From another list, a cautionary tale...as if we don't know.
> 
>> My sister recently recounted their problems with their virus plagued 
>> Windows
>> computer, which crashed just as my nephew was putting the finishing 
>> touches
>> on his school report. Needless to say, that 12 year old was quite 
>> upset. The
>> problem was traced to a virus, even though anti- virus software was 
>> running
>> on the machine. My brother-in-law, who is a hardware engineer, later
>> installed a different hard drive onto the machine. Before he put it 
>> in, he
>> reformatted the drive. Even with a "clean" drive, the anti-virus software
>> still found THREE viruses!
>>
>> Guess where my brother-in-law got the replacement hard drive? It came 
>> out of
>> his sister's computer, rendered useless because a virus had made its way
>> onto the motherboard.
>>
>> Give me a Mac any day!
> 
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