# To Ilya: PC vs. Mac debate/contest/benchmarks

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**Created:** [January 3, 2012, 1:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/to-ilya-pc-vs-mac-debate-contest-benchmarks/262129 "2012-01-03T01:36:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/to-ilya-pc-vs-mac-debate-contest-benchmarks/262129/63 "2012-01-03T11:46:30Z")

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> [@Found - Ricer version of the mustang / e-thug picture](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/found-ricer-version-of-the-mustang-e-thug-picture/47658/12):
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> Same here. I don’t reformat for any reason other than complete failure, or clean upgrades.
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> 😕
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> Spybot sucks. CCleaner is useful for clearing shit out (so is Disk Cleanup, lol) and defragging that often is a good way to beat the shit out of your HDD for no reason.
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> This has to be a joke, right? ZoneAlarm? Seriously? Get the fuck out of here with that shit. Avast is OK, but real ballers don’t run AV. PERIOD.

Spybot is only run once in a blue moon for the hell of it. Really is no different or worse from Malware Bytes. I mainly use the Immunize feature of Spybot because I use IE for certain things and you can never trust IE. The immunizations edit the host file to prevent some things from f’in up the machine, etc.

I rely on CCleaner’s registry cleaner the most. It’s a nice quick tool to cleanup temp files, etc. Disk Cleanup is nowhere near as thorough as CCleaner.

Why is it bad to defrag once a month? I’m not defragging my SSD, and my 2TB drive is constantly having data written/taken off from it so stuff gets fragmented pretty quick. On any given month, I get about 20% fragmentation. Couple gigs worth (all my media files).

As for Zone Alarm, I only use it for increased firewall control for my games that try to talk to the interwebz, etc. I know I could use Windows Firewall, but honestly, in Vista/W7…that firewall setup is much more clunky than what it used to be in XP…so thus I use ZoneAlarm for one off applications like blocking Adobe from talking to license servers, etc. Matter of personal preference.

If I didn’t have any apps like that, I wouldn’t even bother with it. Just makes it a little easier.

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