Kharn
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Apples attitude to security is woeful, as Zmatt has said Apple rely on security through obscurity A buffer overflow exploit took 6 months to patch while BSD (The Unix variant OSX is based on) that had a similar exploit had them patched in days or a month tops.
They are also very picky when it comes to multi booting OSX likes you to have OSX on the HFS+ file system and when you use boot camp on the newer Intel based macs it partitions the drive into a FAT32 file system that you have to format into NTFS if you want to stick vista on there and that act in it's self can cause problems with bootcamp. As for other unix OS support forget it! people have had sporadic luck at best getting Linux on a macbook even other forms of BSD are a nightmare.
Before any one who dosent know me calls me a anti mac fanboy I have owned macbook and currently have a iMac, both have been reacuring pains in the nutsack.
My vote goes for a Dual boot of Windows Vista and Debian.
They are also very picky when it comes to multi booting OSX likes you to have OSX on the HFS+ file system and when you use boot camp on the newer Intel based macs it partitions the drive into a FAT32 file system that you have to format into NTFS if you want to stick vista on there and that act in it's self can cause problems with bootcamp. As for other unix OS support forget it! people have had sporadic luck at best getting Linux on a macbook even other forms of BSD are a nightmare.
Before any one who dosent know me calls me a anti mac fanboy I have owned macbook and currently have a iMac, both have been reacuring pains in the nutsack.
My vote goes for a Dual boot of Windows Vista and Debian.