| averyblund said: PC's for gaming, Mac for everything else. Just like it's always been. I've dealt with enough DLL hell, BSOD, and spyware to know you only use Windows for gaming. Thankfully W7 is a great move foreward it even looks more OS X like than Vista which is quite amazing. The money I save on antivirus and all that other shit and hassle more than covers the $500 (education) I payed for my Mini. And hey whenever I want to deal with reinstalling the OS every 18 months or spyware cleanout there is always friends and family. I really can count on one hand the number of people who have gone Mac and gone back out of the dozens I have met. The quality ratings, and consumer reports numbers show this as well. |
A) There are perfectly capable anti-virus programs out there that are very unintrusive to your system and will keep the garbage out. Anyone who pays for anti-virus these days is a sucker.
B) Spyware: see A.
C) Windows XP and all its predecessors needed to be reinstalled every now and then. It was easy to mess them up and accidentally screw things up, causing BSODs, freezing, DLL errors, etc. I can't see Vista or 7 having that problem. They are much more stable OS's than XP or anything before it. Yes, Vista had some driver issues at the beginning, but most people don't realize that those issues have been sorted out for a long time. One of the reasons 7 is so good is because Vista took all the heat for getting the new drivers going. Vista was a whipping boy. 7 is what Vista probably could have been if they just waited a little longer to release it.
D) When OSX has more market share, or maybe I should say IF it ever gains a significant market share, it will become victim to just as many viruses and spyware as Windows. People who buy Macs because they don't get viruses are falling for Apple's marketing rather than thinking things through--it's not that OSX can't get viruses. OSX doesn't get viruses YET.
Any way you stack it, Windows 7 is a good OS. It's actually an excellent OS. I am glad to see that MS is not just standing by anymore. Apple has spewed their crap long enough. MS has a good thing here and they know it. Kudos to them.
