Why I use a Mac, anno 2006 2251
Since this is c.s.mac.advocacy, we clearly cannot let all this pro-mac stuff stand unanswered! :D
Those "security updates" are not for show; Apple really does have vulnerabilties, and if you don't patch them then you are relying on the black-hats not bothering to attack you. This may work- the Mac is pretty obscure- but it's not really well advised.
You are basically banking on Apple's market share staying low. Historically this looks like a good bet, but what's the point? Just patch it, man.
This is a repeat of what you called "Security", is it not?
Well, my experience has been the opposite- I have found Mac OS X less stable than Windows. Last time a checked- about 6 months ago- I could still lock Mac OS X up solid by turning on the right UI features. I'm also seeing QT crash a lot lately; that seems to be new with the latest QT update.
But Windows *can* be less stable still, if you are using bad hardware or you have installed some unfortunate software.
books. Please do. I just checked on his own web site and see that it actually says: "You are...
"Bad hardware" can happen to the Mac- witness the cooling issues on the MacBook Pros- but there's rather less unfortunate software there. Of course, there's rather less software, full stop, on the Mac. Kinda a two-edged sword.
I observe that your reasons all boil down to "low software availablilty" and "low hardware availability". You may celebrate that the amazing selection of spyware, viruses, etc aren't available, but on the other hand, a lot of actually useful applications aren't either.
Similarly, there aren't any really low end Macs; when Apple ships a low-quality computer it's a screw up, not a business model. So they try to avoid it, which is good- but it also means that there are no *cheap* Macs, which is not so good.
Some tracking cookies are set by enbreasties that have been known to do some rather shady things. While the cookies are not really malware, they could be put to malicious uses...
I do. :D
Platform advocacy is way more fun that politics. :D
This is the plus side of software and hardware availability. Yet it has its down-side: those games are the primary users of wonky (and destabilizing) copy protection technologies.
But for *almost everyone else* it has been some sort of Intel compatible PC, with Windows on it.
PCs can't really be all things to all men, but they are having a really good try at it. They can be used for nearly everything, and do pretty well at a very large set of things. No other computing platform even approaches Intel-Windows PCs in this.
Macs are really very... narrow.