Avast for MacBook Pro

[djwilliams52]

Any idea when a free home version for MacBook will be available?

[Marc57]

You might find more info. here:

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=5.0

[.: Mac :.]

The mac version is not free, it costs $40 a year.

[alanrf]

I suppose I have to ask ... why does avast have a free home version for Windows and not for Mac?

I know that anyone who can afford a Mac must be a rich b*stard deserving to be fleeced of every penny that avast can get out of them ... but there may be a more than a few similar Windows users too.

(In reality ... I just had to face this issue as one of my support group decided to buy a new laptop to replace a vintage machine on which he had been playing with Linux and decided to go with Mac - when they were having a sale - and was disappointed to find that he could not get avast for free on his new Mac)

[.: Mac :.]

I suppose I have to ask ... why does avast have a free home version for Windows and not for Mac?

I know that anyone who can afford a Mac must be a rich b*stard deserving to be fleeced of every penny that avast can get out of them ... but there may be a more than a few similar Windows users too.

(In reality ... I just had to face this issue as one of my support group decided to buy a new laptop to replace a vintage machine on which he had been playing with Linux and decided to go with Mac - when they were having a sale - and was disappointed to find that he could not get avast for free on his new Mac)

I do not know why avast is not free for the Mac. But Mac users are not rich, they are ordinary people who just chose a Mac over a PC. There is no huge price difference now like there was in the 90s.