May 26, 2005
CEO of Intel Says Get a Mac
At a Wall Street Journal conference, the CEO of Intel told the audience that he spends an hour a weekend removing spyware from his daughter's PC. In a surprising and shocking dose of honesty, Paul said mainstream users should get a Mac to instantly fix their security concerns. You know things are really bad when the CEO of Intel is telling people to buy Macs for security reasons. Or maybe he knows that Mac will be using Intel chips soon? ;)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." [Discuss]
