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Oh! I see some advocacy! TY - my comments inside I'll give you some background: I have a little experience with Mac, as a company I work for gave me...
No, I enjoy using the Mac. It has features like system wide spell checker, pbuttword storer, simple things like a calculator that does conversions and system wide search with smart folders. Can you windows fans save to PDF? It takes IE 3 minutes to figure out it can't save a web page (won't say why either). On a Mac if you want to keep that web page as a receipt or reference simply save as PDF. Can you windows drones even imagine what a boon save as PDF is? PDF is built into the system, of course you guys ain't got a clue how useful that is.
I've mentioned the wide variety of software a Mac runs: OSS, OS X, windows. In the future there will be very little software you can't run on a Mac. It ships with a Developers Kit ($300 add on to windows), all the unix dodads (perl, apache, gcc to name a few), others mention iLife, I don't use it much but it is there.
Look at it this way, 3+ years on a 933 that simply gets faster with each release of OS X and ZERO problems, zero viruses updates, zero dollars spent on third party software to keep the system going. This machine is so reliable it's boring, so efficient I take it for granted this is how computers work, until I get on windows. Bleah, I see why Gates is heading for the hills, I think the rest will soon follow.
-- SD
"Such warnings, however, have to contend with the Mac OS X's impressive lack of major security incidents." -That's the bottom line.