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Message: <blockquote data-quote="borc killer" data-source="post: 3326728" data-attributes="member: 14151">I am sorry but do people see the irony in those spots?  That security feature was stolen from Mac… and has been implemented just as well, if not better in some places (and worse in others).  I am forever entering user account information on Macs to do even the slightest things… maybe you people just don’t use Macs in a limited user environment.  And as someone that has to use both systems every day and support users using all three: Vista is darn nice.Just to give you an idea, my group has a little over 450 systems we take care of.  Roughly 350 of them are PCs running XPsp2, 50 with Vista Enterprise, 20 various distributions of Linux and the rest OS10.4 (broken between G4s and G5s with a few ibooks).  My group spends 25-40% of our time each month supporting the Mac users and hardware and about the same on linux.  It is absolutely ridiculous that those people require so much more hand holding.  Hell most of our new Vista users have request almost 0 support once all there software was patched up to the latest versions.Macs are great.  Great toasters.  You plug it in and hit the power button and it does what the toaster manufacture told you do with it.  And if that is all you need then you will be the happiest person around.  But don’t try to toast bagels in it.  And that is not meant as a slam just harsh reality.  If you are going to change what OS you are going to use go Linux.  At least with that you are allowed to do whatever you want.  Just will take you 10 days to figure out how to hit ‘toast’ <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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