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Originally Posted by Soldant
The only reason I would consider a mac is if I was heavily into the graphics/video editing industry, but apart from that, I wouldn't use it.
About viruses/worms: Worms are created to infect as many people as possible, hence why they're worms. Who has the greatest bite of the pie? Windows-based systems. You just don't reach as many people on a Mac, because there aren't that many compared to Windows. Linux just doesn't let you play with vital system stuff unless you supply root access, and if you've made a virus that can smash through any Linux security device, you probably compiled your OWN version of linux from the groud up anyway! Can't agree about "toys" though; Windows XP is still (I can't believe I'm saying this) a workhorse system, albeit it has many flaws, but it's still popular for a reason, and that is it's a very general-purpose system. Macs seem to be very specialised in what they do, Windows can be made to do anything.
Also I hate having one company almost completely own me, even if they're going to use an Intel CPUs now (a step in the right direction).
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I agree and realise thats the reason mate re viruses ect. - thats part of steve jobs reasoning why he didnt want to encourage games - gamers and the gaming scene are notoriosly connected with hackers/dark pyramid ect. as you know - same demographic ect. i actually am surprised how much i like xp - they have come a very long way with all that backwards compatibleness stuff (all the way back to dos lol)- seems they have copied apples ground breaking ideas well as usual - like they did in the beggining with a user friendly gui overlay :-) - similar edible looking gui interface - but is it a true multi tasking sytem like osx? btw arent you oWn3d by Bill the horned one?