If I told you that the CEO of Intel Corp.–the very company that makes the CPUs on which Windows runs–revealed that he spends an hour each weekend scrubbing spyware off his daughter’s PC, you’d probably accuse me of engaging in a little friendly hyperbole. If I told you he thinks you should buy a Mac instead of a Windows PC, you’d probably accuse me of an outright lie.

At this week’s D: All Things Digital conference (hosted by the Wall Street Journal, I might add) Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel Corp., admitted both:

D: Notebook
By JASON FRY
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
May 25, 2005 11:43 a.m.

….Pressed about security by Mr. Mossberg, Mr. Otellini had a startling confession: He spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his daughter’s computer. And when further pressed about whether a mainstream computer user in search of immediate safety from security woes ought to buy Apple Computer Inc.’s Macintosh instead of a Wintel PC, he said, “If you want to fix it tomorrow, maybe you should buy something else.”

The number of pro-OS X, pro-Macintosh, and pro-Apple articles appearing lately is staggering. Here’s another from a guy with 22 years of experience in computer security, a self-avowed “PC bigot”:

Mad as hell, switching to Mac
By Winn Schwartau, Network World, 05/23/05

This is my first column written on a Mac - ever. Maybe I should have done it a long time ago, but I never said I was smart, just obstinate. I was a PC bigot.

But now, I’ve had it. I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore….

Of course, I couldn’t be happier to see such coverage!

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