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Originally Posted by MTI
While Mike means well, the picture he paints of the OS X world is a bit overstated.
There are security patches distributed by Apple on a fairly regular basis; not all applications play nicely with each other, sometimes requiring a "Forced Quit" but not often; Apple has had its share of manufacturing quality control problems, particularly LCD screens lately and there are products, like Apple TV, that really make you wonder "WTF?"
However, he is right about the product design being "on the inside" as well on the outside. Working inside a Mac is very much like working on a Mercedes, the engineering, sometimes "over engineering" is obvious.
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MTI, there are not NEARLY as many periodic security updates for OS X as there are for Windoze.... Almost every time my wife turns her PC on, a window pops up, asking her to update SOMETHING....
And in the several years that I have been working and playing on Macs, the ONLY time I've experienced problems with applications on my Macs not "getting along", requiring "force quits" or re-boots, was when I installed some bootleg, cracked audio plugin software, which I never should have messed around with in the first place, for both moral AND reliability reasons. MY fault, not the fault of the computer or OS.
I have no experience with Apple TV, and have no desire to, so I can't comment on that product with any authority.