Those sound like reasonable advantages. It's just that the 250% price premium
paid for it because it's mainly a single-vendor system is pretty steep. Now,
I haven't looked at any pricing in over 15 years, but eBay shows comparable
functions on Mac vs PC as being at that same 2.5:1 ratio. It's not always the
case, but I guess the supply is lower. What I don't understand is, if the
supply is lower and the devices are as reliable as those on the PC market,
where's the demand that drives the prices up coming from?
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <mythtech_at_mac.com>
To: "Classic Computer" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 12:30 PM
Subject: RE: APPLEVISION Monitor
> >Are you certain? If the Mac was running the same network services as
> >that Unix box, I'd bet your chances of a problem are even -- if not
> >worse on the Mac, due to their popularity among "home users," which
> >unix isn't...
>
> The wonderful bonus you have here with the Mac is... AppleTalk isn't
> passed by home internet routers or modems. So you can safely have the
> default settings of a home file/print sharing turned on on your Macs, and
> no one outside of your home network will know it is there.
>
> This changes if you turn on AppleTalk over IP, but since that is off by
> default, you must explicitly set it when you turn on your filesharing. At
> that point, if you don't know what you are activating, you deserve what
> you get.
>
>
> Also, even if I run servers/services that DO interact with the
> internet... I am far less likely to be hacked simply by virtue of there
> is almost no one trying to hack the Mac servers. That isn't true with
> Windows and Unix where any 13yr old script kiddie can get tools to make
> attempts.
>
> I don't pretend that Mac internet servers are unhackable... just that
> people aren't making easy tools to try, so the script kiddies ignore them.
>
> Much like Mac users being "immune" to viruses. We are FAR from immune...
> we just don't really see them because no one is interested in trying.
>
> There are advantages to being a 5% market... small targets don't get hit
> often.
>
> (so how long now until someone hacks my web page to prove a point :-) )
>
> -chris
>
> <http://www.mythtech.net>
>
>
Received on Wed May 01 2002 - 13:58:42 BST