[Ti] Norton Utilities for OSX

[khyber courchesne]

Exactly.  I have no idea what the use of Norton is these days...OSX seems to
do most of those tasks on its own.  I think its an OS9 mentality to want the
speed disk and defrag options.

> From: Jerry Krinock <jerry at ieee.org>
> Reply-To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List"<Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 10:21:12 -0700
> To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [Ti] Norton Utilities for OSX
> 
> on 04/05/06 12:01, Michael at wakinyan at fuse.net wrote:
> 
>>>> The admin in my office just bought Norton Utilities for OSX....My last
>>>> experience with it around OSX 10.1 was that it totally destroyed my
>>>> computer
>>>> and I had to reinstall all my data and the OS.
>>>> 
>>>> Has Norton improved, or is it still a dangerous suite?
>> 
>> DiskWarrior is better, safer and easier to use.
> 
> I think you should ask yourself: What is the reason for using Norton,
> DiskWarrior, or any of this stuff?  I use my powerbook for both work and
> play, certainly more than 50 hours a week.  I reboot it once every week or
> two, after i've got more than 6 swapfiles and I feel it's getting a little
> sluggish and gee I should quit some of the 40 applications I've got open
> which I haven't used in a while.
> 
> If it ain't broke, why fix it?
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
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