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pawoSD · #27 04-29-2010, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by mikemover

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.

You are still running a G5? That is ancient and outdated. Essentially ANY modern CPU can outperfom it easily.

Windows is not at all "becoming similar" to the MAC. The windows architecture is completely different from that of a MAC, which is essentially just OpenBSD with a pretty graphical interface slapped on it.

A fast, well put together Windows 7 machine takes about 25 seconds to fully boot. Perhaps your friend's computer is less than a good example. I've seen Macs take FOREVER to boot OS X.

Anything OS X can do, you can do on Windows 7 faster, and at much less cost. With equal or greater reliability. I work with computers all day, every day, I do know what I am talking about. And we do see the occassional messed up OS X...rarely, since no one uses them in a setting where real work needs to get done.