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- 17" 1.5ghz PB,1gb RAM,64mb ATI,80gb HD+PowerMac G4 867mhz,640mb RAM,60gb HD+AirPort xpress+15gb Ipod
Hello, I just bought a 17" powerbook and very happy with it.
I was just wondering what everybody thought of this .mac thing that Apple seem to like promoting. I was offered a discount on it when I got the powerbook but declined.
I already have email addresses and web space with my ISP so I don't need to take advantage of that. What are the other advantages of having .mac?
It seems virus protection is not really an issue with macs, but I have my powerbook networked to my unfortunate old Sony Vaio that has Norton antivirus with all the latest updates on it (therefore the Vaio has some viruses due to the uselessness of Norton - typical of windows xp based software I know) - so it seems that my Powerbook could get some effect from viruses off the vaio. Does Virex remove these mac-affecting pc viruses too?
If anyone has any experiences of .mac, good or bad, it would be helpful to know so I can work out whether it is worth getting.
I was just wondering what everybody thought of this .mac thing that Apple seem to like promoting. I was offered a discount on it when I got the powerbook but declined.
I already have email addresses and web space with my ISP so I don't need to take advantage of that. What are the other advantages of having .mac?
It seems virus protection is not really an issue with macs, but I have my powerbook networked to my unfortunate old Sony Vaio that has Norton antivirus with all the latest updates on it (therefore the Vaio has some viruses due to the uselessness of Norton - typical of windows xp based software I know) - so it seems that my Powerbook could get some effect from viruses off the vaio. Does Virex remove these mac-affecting pc viruses too?
If anyone has any experiences of .mac, good or bad, it would be helpful to know so I can work out whether it is worth getting.