Aqua-Soft ForumsWhat is your thought on PowerPC and Intel Macs. Do you think Intel Macs are still Macs or are just PCs running OS X? Some people think that way but I think Intel Macs are still Macs are no PCs. Ever since the Intel switch, people had been saying that Intel Macs are PCs. It's not true, they are still Macs. For the PowerPC Macs, I heard one person say (in real world not on this forum) that PowerPC Macs are the only true Macs.
The PowerPC architecture is more secure. Here's a quote from a Wikipedia article:
In some quarters there have been fears that the use of Intel processors would render the Macintosh vulnerable to Windows viruses. Virus code is specific to the operating system or environment it affects, not merely the processor type. PowerPC processors enforce some restrictions on the alignment of executable code, which could make exploiting certain vulnerabilities less difficult on an Intel CPU; however, most modern Intel chips offer similar security features. One possible loss of security that is fundamental to the architecture is that the return address is passed on the stack in x86, unlike PowerPC, which has a special Link Register to store the return address, which is only pushed on the stack if the procedure calls another procedure, making buffer-overflow attacks easier on x86. However, Mac OS X supports the XD bit, making it harder to actually cause a buffer-overflow attack to execute code. Regardless of CPU architecture, a user on Mac OS X is by default granted a lower level of privilege than on Windows XP. In the absence of a privilege escalation exploit, malicious software running under Mac OS X is only able to damage files writable by the current user, not core system files. The same level of security is only available on Windows under a non-administrative account. Viruses that interact with the system at a very low level must also contend with a different system architecture, kernel, APIs and filesystem. Exposure vectors such as ActiveX and Outlook are also not a problem, since neither runs natively under Mac OS X. Vulnerabilities such as the WMF problems in Windows are also not directly applicable.
Article link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Intel_transition
Since the Intel Transition why did Apple transition a lot of their models to glossy display (I a have a glossy display Mac) but I am wondering why. With recent PowerPC Macs, they were all matte.
Discuss anything about PowerPC vs Intel.
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