Ok, I am geek. I admit it.
Opinions expressed here are mine alone and do not reflect on any of the other members or managment of petflytrap.com.
I will try not to be to degratory or harsh.
Windows sucks!
While it has improved vastly since the days of win98 provided you just ignore the whole winME time period. Of course windows is easier to use, and easier to infect with viruses and trojans. The security holes are match only by M$ unwillingness to release the patches for them. In simple terms if you don't want to have to think at all when you use a computer windoze is for you. Nothing like buying a computer, then paying for the operating systems and then buying M$ office for an additional couple hundred bucks. All to have it infected within 24 hours of going on the internet.
Is Mac much better, hmmm, yes and no. Here is an operating system built on the unix varient known as FreeBSD ( a system I am partial to). I will say this OSX (Mac operating system) is a very nice piece of software but it does have a bit of a learning curve to it. However you can become familar with it quickly and once you do, you will never want to use a windoze system again.
Now for the scary thing the $$price$$. While companies like dell , hp, and others advertise prices that seem almost half of Apple, by the time you are done adding the things you will need to the system, you will find that you price is on par with the Macs. With Macs there is much more in the initial package than with a windoze inital system.
I can tell you that you will be very happy with a Mac and if you are not they will brainwash you until you are. M$ doesn't care if you are ever happy as long as they get your money.
Now I mentioned that I am a geek. Just to show you how much of one. Geeks will understand this windows users will be mystified.
[bhorne@Hyde:bhorne, 12:47 AM, Sat Feb 25]>uname -a
FreeBSD Hyde.bjh.homenet 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sun Dec 11 20:33:24 EST 2005
root@Hyde.bjh.homenet:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SCHIZO i386
Sincerely,
Brendhan
PS. let the flamewar begin I have plenty of gas to throw on the fire, I have been eating beans and cabbage.